Touching Infinity by Erin Hayes

Author:Erin Hayes [Hayes, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erin Hayes Books
Published: 2018-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

The entire crew is on the bridge, even Oliver, who I feel like I should have helped a bit more to get over this. I make sure to walk out there with my head held high and my shoulders back. I need to put on a brave face for everyone. I need to let them know that we aren’t dead in space.

I catch Orion’s eyes as I head toward the captain’s console and take a seat in Louis’s old chair. I sweat; it still feels warm from him, even though my internal thermometer says that it’s no warmer than the rest of the room.

Orion looks…calm. Much calmer than the rest of the crew, which I draw strength from. He may be an android, but there’s something nice about having someone not freaked out like everyone else.

“Clem,” Daisy says softly, but I pointedly ignore her before I lose my nerve. PC shakes his head at her as he takes his usual spot.

“Orion,” I command, my voice wavering slightly. “Set up a com link to Chairman Maas of Syn-Tech. We have some questions we need to discuss. Immediately.”

The android blinks for a moment, processing my request, before keying in the call to the Chairman. I hope he picks up. It will be very telling if he doesn’t—I know it will be because he knows exactly why I’m calling as opposed to being busy. If these patents in the /infinity folder are so important to him, he’d be sure to have his com always available in case we need help.

And I’m going to tear him a new one.

The call is accepted, and the Chairman’s face fills the screen. Where I once thought was perfectly coifed hair and flawless complexion, I now see the cracks and despise everything I see about him.

“Where is the captain?” he asks, his voice filling up the bridge in a more thunderous, commanding manner than I would have thought possible. He thinks he owns us, like he owns the Lifers for Syn-Tech. Except, in his eyes, we’re expendable. He thinks we’re expendable. Lower than low.

I purse my lips, trying to keep a lid on my fury. “He’s now part of a table inside a hermetically sealed room, along with the rest of my arm.” I lift up my stump for good measure. “I’m the acting captain of the ship. My name is Clementine Jones.”

“Oh dear,” Maas says, “I’m so sorry to hear that, Miss Jones. Will he be okay?” There’s no emotion in his voice.

“Whatever you had me download on that ship—the Nova,” I say, “there was some sort of weird virus, wasn’t there? Something that I downlooted and it infected Captain Louis, and it infected whoever that was on the Nova with us.”

Maas raises an eyebrow. “There was a creature on the Nova as well? We had thought they were destroyed when the Feds attacked the ship.”

That explains the holes and the state that the ship was in when we found it. And that explains why it had been left drifting towards a blackhole.

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