Vira Episode One by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Bell, Odette C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Vira

She didn’t understand him. But she was sure of one fact – he had been the wrong man for this job. Though, on some level, she respected the decisions of the Admirals, obviously their desperation had forced them to come up with the wrong decision. She understood they were eager to do everything they could to combat the Force before it began its full-scale invasion of the Milky Way, but that desperation was leading to poor decision-making.

It didn’t matter.

Vira was fully capable of going through this on her own. She didn’t need a minder. Though she could admit that… there were holes in her understanding when it came to appropriate personnel decorum, she could learn them. All she had to do was open her mind and follow the other people around her.

Though she’d threatened Park that she would leave the ship, she had no intention of doing that. She would make it to the Expanse, and then? She would scour that moon clean. If she found Force technology, she would return it to the Admiral. If she found Force soldiers?

She would engage them.

She appreciated the seriousness of her secret. On some level. If the other races of the Milky Way understood what she was, they would covet her. From the Barbarians to the Kor, they would send their secret agents to capture her.

But Vira was not weak. She was also prepared. And, fundamentally, she understood the cost of keeping this secret too long. The day of reckoning was coming, faster with every moment. The Force had been attempting to push into the Milky Way with greater frequency. And every time they did, they got a little closer. And the closer they got, the more it whet their appetites.

They would not be stymied for much longer. Someday soon, they would activate all of their sleeping forces in the Milky Way, and they would start a war.

The Coalition needed to know that it had weapons strong enough to combat those forces. Weapons like Vira. And though, on any other day, she hated thinking of herself as a tool, when it came to peace, she would gladly accept that responsibility.

She looked over at the clock, though she didn’t need to. She could estimate time perfectly in her own mind. She began to count down the seconds.

She rose from her chair, neatened her uniform for the thousandth time, ticked her eyes toward the clock, then finally strode toward the doors.

She could feel Park doing the same from his quarters.

It was time for their first duty shift to begin.

Park had a distinct energy. A curious emotional cocktail, if you will. It made it very, very easy to keep track of him, even through a solid titanium and farian wall. She could’ve switched off that function in her mind, but she chose not to.

Whether Park realized this or not, the success of this mission would not come down to his ability to control her – it would come down to his ability to control himself.

She reached the door.

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