Warp Resonance by Cedar Sanderson

Author:Cedar Sanderson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781532880346
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-05-03T07:00:00+00:00

Sera was moping again after the first day, and in the silence that her chatter left behind, Lia thought. She was still thinking when she overrode their course and headed the little ship back toward Gavan. Sera didn’t realize they had changed course until Lia went into orbit around Gavan.

“Sera, you have a choice.” Lia looked at her across the clutter of papers on the galley table. Sera blinked owlishly at her. She had been studying for her entrance exams non-stop since they left the Blender.

“What?”

“We’ve just orbited Gavan. I have a plan to catch the pirates that wanted the Birgitte Aster. Your choice is to stay with me, which could be dangerous, or to land on Gavan until another Voyageur can get you to school.”

“You’re going after the space pirates?”

“It’s not like a vid, child. We might not find them, we are a tiny ship against who knows what they have.”

“But those people who died.”

“This won’t bring them back.”

“What can I do if I’m with you?”

“Perhaps nothing. No duty binds you to my side, Sera.”

“I want to see this through.” the teenager whispered.

Lia nodded. “I thought so.”

Sera came with her this time onto Gavan. She hovered by Lia’s elbow, mostly, just slightly behind her where she could watch and hide behind her elfin mentor. Lia put up with it silently, knowing that Sera was pushing her comfort levels to come onto the space station with her face bare.

Gavan’s navy wasn’t anything to write home about. A battleship, a half-dozen corvettes and a few privateers. Lia hoped it was enough. She laid out her plan to the ranking officer, Gavan’s only admiral. His nearly non-existent grey hair and neat goatee framed a face burned bronze by solar radiation and creased with experience.

“Always a humbling experience to talk to a Scout.” He said cheerfully.

“Sir?” Lia replied in bemusement.

“Here on Gavan I report only to the President and Prime Minister, but then you come along, a slip of a girl, and I dance to your tune.”

“If you would prefer...” Lia began diffidently. It would never do to antagonize him either in the short or long run.

He waved her to a stop. “No, I think it’s a good plan, but it does leave you a little vulnerable. Are you sure we shouldn’t go in guns blazing?”

“If we knew where their base was, yes.”

He leaned back in his chair and contemplated the ceiling for a moment. Lia watched him think in silence. She had a feeling this gallant old man was going along with her hare-brained scheme. She wasn’t going to tell Gerry about it until after. Her boss was liable to quash it, and her standing orders gave her the latitude to carry this out on her own.

He sat back down with a snap. “So you will be the staked goat to my big game hunter. I can live with that, Scout. You have more teeth than a goat.”

He looked at the silent Sera. “Child, will you be partaking of our hospitality during this exercise?”

“No, sir.

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