Trans Galactic Insurance: Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant by Andrew Moriarty

Author:Andrew Moriarty [Moriarty, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: jump drive, Galactic Empire, rebels, Space Exploration, Dystopian, Space Opera, science fiction adventure, imperial space, space adventure, space empire
Publisher: Andrew Moriarty
Published: 2017-06-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Mr. Dashi loped across the floor and threw himself up into the air. Partway to the ceiling, he somersaulted so that he hit the ceiling feet first. He absorbed the impact with his knees, then pushed himself down and to the right. His left hand reached behind him, paused, then scythed forward. There was a large thwap as his racket smacked a blue ball. The ball didn’t go straight but arced lazily down and to the right.

His opponent pushed from the side wall and stretched his racket above his head. The blue ball passed just above it, hitting a blue circle on the wall. A gong sounded, and the lights in the court flashed blue.

Mr. Dashi smiled. He enjoyed netball, and he’d played in this court often enough that he understood the Coriolis force there. He was ahead by two points.

He pivoted and slapped a hand on the wall as he slid by. The Velcro on his glove dragged him to a stop. His opponent collected the ball and readied to serve, but a tapping noise echoed through the netball court.

Mr. Dashi looked up. His assistant, José, was waving at him from the spectators’ window. Mr. Dashi nodded, gave his regrets to his opponent, and pushed toward the exit hatch. He popped the hatch and pushed himself through, then pulled the hatch closed behind himself and turned to José.

“Climb down with me,” Mr. Dashi said as he began to pull himself down the core ladder. José followed behind him.

On the first part of the ladder, both men pulled themselves face first, but about halfway down the ladder the gravity strengthened, and they both pivoted so that their feet were toward the rim. Now both men pushed themselves down until the returning gravity became strong enough to replace their feet on the ladders. The rest of the ladder climb finished in a more conventional fashion.

They arrived at an outer corridor. Mr. Dashi mopped his face as he walked anti-spinward along the corridor.

“Well?” asked Mr. Dashi.

“He was there for sure. We’ve got DNA and a bloody fingerprint on the wall,” said José

“What do the cameras say?”

“None functioning in that corridor.”

“Why not?”

“Just old,” José said. “They haven’t worked for years. Not worth enough to fix. There was a personal camera in the room, above the door.”

“What did it show?”

“No idea. The recording chip was pulled.”

“Who pulled it?”

José shrugged.

“What does the militia say?” asked Mr. Dashi.

“The militia aren’t a hundred percent sure. There were other fingerprints there as well.”

“Whose?”

“Danny’s girlfriend, for one.”

“What’s her name again?”

“Nadine.”

“Nadine? My student Nadine?” Mr. Dashi paused.

“Same one.”

“I didn’t know they were dating.”

Jose rolled his eyes. “Do you know everything about your students, sir?”

“Not everything, apparently.” Mr. Dashi resumed walking. “I wonder how long they’ve been dating.”

“I wouldn’t know about that, sir.”

“Never mind. Could she have done it?”

“She could have—but she called it in to security.”

“So, she didn’t do it,” Mr. Dashi concluded.

“There is a problem.”

“What?”

“The militia say Danny had been dead at least two hours when she called.”

“She

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