Unruly (Unbound Mercs Book 3) by Timothy Ellis

Author:Timothy Ellis [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty Five

Trip didn’t have a problem with sharing his job.

He’d had a late night with our unloading as it was, and it wasn’t until breakfast he could be consulted. In fact, he welcomed someone to do the night shift.

Gitte turned up for a short time after breakfast, introduced us to a young trainee mage, had a quick look at where we were talking about, talked it out for a bit with the teenage girl who looked nothing like a powerful being, and then left, saying she had a meeting to attend to.

The girl took her time, talking to us about what we wanted, had a look at the extra room on Camel, and seemed to be feeling the magic with her eyes closed while standing in the middle of it. She then turned a small store room on Unbound into a really big one. Elsa gave me a look which suggested she shared my feeling of freakiness while looking into it.

The next thing was looking at the plan of the deck, double checking what we wanted, checking that no-one was in that area of the ship, and finally she made some suggestions. What we ended up with was more passenger accommodation than we’d had, starting further down the deck than before, with the original eight passenger cabins now converted for humans instead, duplicating what was in one of the bedrooms on Camel, including bed, sheets, and blankets. At the same time, all of what had been in offices or storage in the space just changed was moved into the new extended storage space.

We were not using those offices anyway, so losing them was not a thing. But then it occurred to me that Pete didn’t have one, and he should have. I took her down to the marine barracks, and she converted a storeroom there into an office for him, with two smaller ones for his lieutenants. We checked the plans for that area as well, brought Pete into the conversation, but found he was fine with the number of people accommodated already.

There was more room down there we could use better, but his attitude was it was there if we ever needed more marines, and it could be modified then. He had more than he needed now already. That was true, but it gave me other ideas.

I took them both back to the bridge with me, and brought Elsa into the conversation, in her ready room.

“You want to add a cattle class to our passenger capacity?” she asked, when I’d outlined my thought.

“That’s maybe a bit indelicate, but a second class area, yes.”

“Why?”

“Maximizing…” but I ran out of words immediately. “It was just a thought.”

“I’m not sure we want general travellers coming with us,” said Pete. “They’re more likely to cause trouble, or not stay where we need them to. The current pricing does tend to keep troublemakers away.”

“I can come back and do it anytime,” said the girl. “With a bit of practice, I might even be able to put in a rift so the new section looks like it’s off the existing section.

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