Beyond The Frontiers by Ell Leigh Clarke & Michael Anderle

Author:Ell Leigh Clarke & Michael Anderle [Clarke, Ell Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2018-07-27T05:00:00+00:00

Yoll Quadrant, QBSS Meredith Reynolds, Never Submit-Never Surrender Bar

“Which is as good a stopping point as any,” Tabitha rolled her head around. She looked at her beer and tapped the glass. “That’s the problem with being a vampire and trying to drink. You don’t get buzzed easily, and by the time you do… Well, it’s a matter of volume. I’ll be back.”

She winked at Angie and left, her hips swaying under the black coat. Even though it covered her figure, it wasn’t hard to imagine how everything must look in the tight leather pants underneath.

Angie stared after her, wide-eyed, and Terrence laughed.

“Tabitha’s not shy,” he told her.

George chimed in, “No, she’s not.”

Angie smiled and took a sip of her beer. She’d been so caught up in listening to Tabitha’s story that she had hardly drunk any of it, and it was getting warm.

“I had no idea about the stories Tabitha must have,” she said finally. “This is only one of them. Imagine living your whole life like that, out there sticking up for Justice!”

“Don’t you do that?” George asked, eyeing her quizzically.

“Yeah,” Lilah chimed in. “Tabitha told us you were a gunnery officer.”

Angie laughed until she saw that they were all serious. “I mean, I am,” she explained. “But I don’t do anything like what Tabitha does. She’s off tracking people down and bringing them to Justice. I just, you know, make sure all the ordnance is in the right place, and that people know how to use it, and…all of that.”

“So, in other words, you help keep our ships in the air and help our enemies get dead,” Lilah summarized succinctly. “I’d say you’re out there sticking up for Justice as well.”

The regulars chorused their agreement and clinked glasses, and Angie clinked hers with theirs shyly.

“So tell us about you,” Terrence suggested. “You must have had some close calls, right?”

“Oh, ummm.” Angie’s eyes lit up. “There was one engagement where they were just zipping around the ship, and we couldn’t tell when to fire which guns. When they’d come in range, even for a moment, we'd be firing so fast that the barrels were jamming. Well, I knew that was going to end poorly, so I had people start firing randomly. We couldn’t keep up with the fighters, right? So we just cleared our fighters out of the way and started having a whole set of guns firing, but never the same set twice. That scared them right off, I tell you. They’d been thinking they were so special, zipping around, but once they knew they might get in the way of a blast and there was no way to anticipate it? They fucked right off. So we were able to get the supplies to the colony we were going to once we got them out of our way.”

“There.” Terrence patted the table. “See? You’ve been doing good stuff.”

“I have.” Angie was buoyed by their cheer, but a moment later she remembered why she was here listening to this story and her face fell.

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