Burden of Solace: Book 1 of the Starforce Saga by Richard L. Wright

Author:Richard L. Wright [Wright, Richard L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-30T22:00:00+00:00

Cassie shook her head and threw up her hands. "Seriously?"

Nate wore the age-old expression of a man who has no clue what he’s done wrong. "What?"

She had to remind herself that Nate didn't know the extent of Martin's depravity. If he did know, then he wouldn't have taped up a photo of the man who had tried to rape her as a target for testing her blasts. At least she hoped he would have thought better of it. She was learning that even though he was a certified genius about scientific and technical stuff, he could be a little dense about people. His heart was in the right place, but the guy was a classic nerd.

"You said your blasts happened because you were threatened,” he said. “What could be more threatening than a murderous psychopath?"

"Whatever. Let's get this over with."

She walked to the opposite side of the granite chamber that Nate had decided to use for their first test. They were almost two hundred feet beneath the city, surrounded by granite bedrock. Nate said he had created the place a year earlier to test some experimental weaponry he’d designed. It would serve the dual purpose of containing any possible 'spillage' from her power, while also preserving secrecy.

The space was damp and chilly. Condensation glistened on the rock face and the room echoed with the sound of water dripping. The coolness explained why he had instructed her to wear something warm - long sleeves and pants. She had begun to think that Atlanta's Guardian was a bit of a prude. Then she caught him giving her black exercise outfit an appreciative 'up and down' look. Between the grin he tried to hide and the decidedly happy feelings she detected, she wondered if he was really as tightly controlled as he seemed. Or maybe his uniform was just reinforced to conceal an erection.

At the moment, Nate was directing a trio of small robots to arrange his test equipment. He’d said the bots were his own design, but it was obvious they needed more work.

"Number 12, move the particle sensor grid two feet west."

The robot honked a deep tone. Nate sighed and pointed toward the end of the room where the target stood.

"West is that way. Is your inertial guidance malfunctioning?"

The little bot spun on its tracked base to face him and produced another series of beeps and honks.

"Oh, for the love of... All A.S.S. units, add directive. Begin. Always calibrate inertial guidance against GPS before descending underground. End directive. Save and commit."

The three machines responded with a chorus of dings. Nate gave her a sheepish look, anticipating her response.

"Ass units?" she laughed.

"Yeah, it stands for 'Autonomous Service Systems' but, honestly, I named them that because they screw up a lot. It's not their fault, of course. I programmed them. But, I swear, sometimes it feels like they act stupid on purpose."

After a few more adjustments, they were finally ready for Cassie to do her awful thing. Behind the photo of Martin was

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