Vamp Town by Jeff Seats

Author:Jeff Seats [Seats, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SD Publishing
Published: 2016-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

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CON-WEST COMMANDER Samantha Cole had moved down from her glassed-in office that overlooked the beating heart of Control-West and was now standing in the control room next to a tech who was switching camera feeds; trying to get as clear an image as possible. On one side of the large screen that dominated the wall in front of them was a satellite image of the reservation, RES-SITE ALPHA. On the opposite side was a closer visual from a drone fly over. A smaller screen inset in the bottom right corner showed a map of the other reservations in the western United States. All were indicated by steady, glowing green dots. All but the flashing red spot in eastern Oregon.

The entire edge of the screen was pulsing red, which framed all the images they were looking at, emphasizing that there was, indeed, something bad going down; just in case no one had noticed all the other alarms that filled the control room with a mad cacophony of blaring noise and flashing lights.

Commander Cole pinched the bridge of her nose trying to rub out the beginnings of a major headache. “Can someone please turn off all these alarms?”

“Sorry, ma'am.” The tech responded as he clicked on the keyboard and moused over some digital sliders on his screen. The throbbing—Arnt! Arnt! Arnt!—of the klaxon faded and the swirling “fire engine” red lights stopped their rotations and went dark.

“And the big screen too.”

“Yes, ma'am.” The tech moved the mouse a bit, made a couple of clicks and very quickly the red throbbing frame around the big screen just turned to a steady red light.

“All the way William, if you please.”

The glowing red frame winked out totally when the tech moved the cursor over a button on his screen.

Craig entered the control room and walked down to the same desk he manned the other night. The blue bronco was back, and the duck had been flattened and painted blue as though the horse had trampled it into the blue field of Boise State. Craig looked at the tech who glanced back at him. Their eyes locked, each knowing that this was just the opening battle of a larger war.

Liz had followed Craig into the command center still concentrating more on keeping the errant papers in the bag than on the path she was walking and didn't quite see that the floor stair-stepped down from the door. The quick step down caught her by surprise, and she felt like she was going to take a tumble. With Master Sergeant Terry's voice playing in her inner ear she made a quick assessment of her situation and dropped the bag which stopped her forward motion and allowed her to stay upright and on her feet.

“I see you have a newbie Craig.” The commander didn't look back to Craig but addressed him like she had eyes in the back of her head.

As if she didn't know. “Yes, ma’am. This is Li...”

Commander Cole turned and offered her hand to Liz.

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