Back in Blue (Corin Hayes, #4) by G. R. Matthews

Author:G. R. Matthews [Matthews, G. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 44992082
Published: 2019-04-29T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

I'd been to a few gigs in my youth, but no one matched Jimi on the guitar. It isn't just the skill, it's the energy and feeling he drives through the music. I kept one eye on the map and the other staring at the darkness beyond my visor. The gentle tugs on the communication cable let me know that Norah was keeping pace. Somewhere out there, Abrahams and his second were traipsing their own planned course towards the VKYN city.

It wasn't a pleasant thought, what we were about to do. People would die. Either us or them, though I sincerely and ghoulishly wished it to be the latter rather than the former. I'd never met them and likely never would. They'd never know who had killed them and the survivors better not find out either. Least that was the plan. I shoved the thoughts aside and let Jimi's voice cleanse my mind as he sang about kissing the sky.

On the map, the first of the predicted detection circles crept into view. It marked the beginning of our real work. The little triangle of our way point lay just ahead of it and from then on it we'd have to concentrate. It would be vital to work together, as a team, and slowly. The line which picked out our planned course was based upon speculation, out of date intelligence, and a lot of guesswork.

SYNC MAPS, I sent Norah as we stopped at the waypoint. Hendrix was just questioning Joe's possession of a firearm when I cut the music and let the sounds of the ocean wash through me.

COMPLETE, came Norah's reply.

In those old clips from the old days, I'd have spread warpaint across my face, tied a bandanna around my forehead, picked up a large gun and said something macho. Here and now I settled for a sigh, a bubble obscured 'fuck it', and the message LET'S GO.

I turned the exoskeleton power down, letting the batteries hoard their power, and put one foot in front of the other. We crossed the green line of the detection circle and the war became real.

ALL CLEAR. Norah's message appeared in the little chat box on my HUD. Her role was to monitor the suits' readouts, focus on picking up the sensors. Mine was to pick a path and make sure we went in the right direction. At the moment, that should have been to turn one hundred and eighty degrees and get the hell out of there. However, there was nowhere to go but forward, complete the mission and get out alive. I'd done this before, once or twice, but I took no comfort from that. Too many others had died in the last war for any illusion of immortality to hang around my mind.

The red beam of my headlamp was pointed at the seabed. It undulated in ridges and valleys of sediment. Small creatures who made this plain their home burrowed into the sand as we approached. Slow fish which cruised across the land seeking a meal flicked a tail and were gone in a flash.

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