Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon

Author:Elizabeth Moon [Moon, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, War, Adventure
ISBN: 9780345447616
Google: P125BDEtMLQC
Amazon: 0345447611
Barnesnoble: 0345447611
Goodreads: 284658
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2003-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“We didn’t blow the ansibles,” Cally said. No reason not to tell them that. No reason not to start setting the record straight. “We don’t want trouble with ISC.”

“Then who did?”

“Don’t know. Not us, that’s all I know. So, your FTL’s out. What about your other systems?”

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Trading In Danger - Elizabeth Moon

“Fine so far.” The old woman was still angry. Not scared a bit—

well, the old were like that, if they weren’t scared of everything.

Ky woke slowly, as from deep sleep. It didn’t feel right. What didn’t feel right, she wasn’t sure at first. A smell… not the smell of her cabin. Astringent, even medical. She opened her eyes. Above her, too close, was a shiny curved surface; when she tried to move, her arms bumped into something firm and unyielding.

The curved surface lifted away from her face. Now she could see more—and nothing reassuring. Too far away, now, the overhead with rows of lights; too big, the compartment in which she lay enclosed in something uncomfortably like a coffin. Medbox, her mind told her.

She struggled to put facts together in a string that made sense.

Medbox meant injury… She had been injured? When? Where? And this place she was in… what was it? Where? A face hung over her; she had never seen it before, that she was sure of, if nothing else.

Its expression was serious. The mouth opened.

“Do you know your name?”

Name. What you call yourself, that is your name. Ky fumbled around in a brain that felt like a basket of wool puffs, until a sharp angular fact prodded her inquiry. Name. Your name from him meant my name to me… My name is… “Kylara Vatta,” she said.

“Ah. And do you know where you are?”

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onplanet. “I’m in a medbox,” she said. “On a ship? I don’t know for sure.”

“Do you know the date?”

She had no idea. The whole concept of date seemed slippery.

“No…”

“No matter,” the man said. The knowledge that he was a man and not a woman had slid into her mind without her thinking about it.

“What’s the last thing you remember?”

She didn’t remember anything, but she pushed at the gray fuzzballs.

Past the screen of her mind ran the equations for calculating oxygen output from a Class III environmental system per square meter of reactive surface—so she recited that, and then the ones for calculating drift on downjump.

“Think of a person,” the man said.

She tried, but couldn’t remember anyone to think of—person meant someone like her, like the man leaning over the medbox. Suddenly a cascade of faces appeared on the screen. Her father, her mother, her brother, her uncle, Cousin Stella, Aunt Gracie Lane, Gaspard, the Commandant, Mandy Rocher…

“Ah…” the man said.

The faces combined in scenes, in actions. Then a white streak blanked out everything for

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