Beware of Light (Dark Stars Book 1) by Alex Kirko

Author:Alex Kirko [Kirko, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-30T23:00:00+00:00

9

Enemy Beds

“Does the apartment building have a gaming room? Petey loves learning, and we can’t afford a virtual reality set.”

Tara blinked trying to dispel the illusion, but it didn’t help. She was still in her office, still in charge of relocating immigrants from Lankershire to their new homes, and there was still a family of two moms and a child in front of her. Petey, three years old, was examining the ceiling and picking his nose. He found a booger, put it on his nail, and was scrutinizing it with the seriousness of a scientist unravelling the secrets of the universe.

She didn’t go into the military to deal with this shit.

“Miss, are you listening?”

Tara focused on her Mary persona, the dutiful secretary excited about her job and not disgusted by children contemplating eating their mucus if it looked good enough.

She smiled politely. “Yes, of course. The building has a place for your tyke to play, but it might be a tad crowded until we clear the rubble around the tower and rebuild some of the playground complexes. Just for the questionnaire: why did you leave Lankershire?”

The two women looked at each other for a moment. The taller one, Maria, said, “Frankly, the place isn’t bad now, but there are so many terrible memories there. The previous Count, he prohibited same-sex parenting, unless you were willing to entertain him and his people. We hid our relationship there, and we got away from Lankershire as soon as we could.”

Mary gasped and made some notes. “Well, you don’t need to worry about any of that here. Welcome to Seind, ladies.”

The smile lasted until the pair took their devil-spawn and left. She felt the mask slip from her face and rubbed her cheeks to get the muscles to relax. She would get wrinkles from all this smiling. The clock on the wall said it was three in the afternoon. Mary had four more hours of office time.

The door opened, and a young man with thinning blonde hair peered in. He said, “I’m next, may I come in?”

She caressed the heavy seal of her office for a moment, thinking how easy it would be to knock him out with a good throw. “I’m sorry, but I need to organize the files of the previous clients,” she said. “Please wait five minutes.”

The man left.

By now she had spent nearly a month in Seind, and she felt like she blended in perfectly. Playing Mary was fun, but she needed to get promoted. Dealing with people and faking a smile for hours every day was enough to make her snap. She was beginning to consider staging a murder across the hall just to get a break.

There was a knock, and she gripped the seal again. The door opened, and Kate looked in wearing the earrings Mary had helped her pick out a week ago. “Hey, Mary, you got a minute?” she asked. “I want you to meet someone.”

“Are they outside the building?”

“What? Yes, they are outside. I think you are ready to work with our Ascended forces.

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