Cool Pursuit: Chaos Core Book 2 by Lalonde Randolph

Author:Lalonde, Randolph
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure, slavery, cyborg, spinward fringe, pursuit, liberation, slave hunter
Publisher: Randolph Lalonde

The Governor was sitting with Dorian in the passenger seating in the middle of the ship. Nigel, Sun and Della were right behind Spin as she entered the main cabin. “We’re in a hurry this morning,” Sun announced. “I’ll get this meeting over with quickly so we can have a real breakfast. It might be one of the last of the like that we’ll have in a while, since the ingredients we have here aren’t common.”

Della didn’t sit down, but kept walking to the galley. On the way there she passed Leland, who was about to open a meal bar and she snatched it from his fingers. He shrugged and sat down with the rest of the crew. Spin watched everyone else take their seats, then the cockpit door at the top of the short stair opened to admit a dark haired man almost as short as she was. She’d forgotten about him, Jorin, who was one of the slaves she rescued from the fungal pools. One of his cheeks was still thickly caked with treatment cream. He nodded and smiled at her briefly before taking a seat. “Our night watch pilot, Jorin,” Sun said. “He did a fine job, considering it was his first watch on a ship.”

“Ever,” he said. “I mostly watched the console from a safe distance just in case any of the displays turned red and kept my hand over the alert button.”

“There’s three quarters of the job, right there,” Dorian said. “Well done.”

“Right. Let’s get to it,” Sun said. “We’re headed to Vernon, an unregulated town outside of the main planetary port. Last night, Nigel finished work on the ship’s protective net, so if anyone or anything touches the hull while the hatches are closed, they’ll be burned to slag.”

“Just fixed a few severed lines, they got cut when the ship was hit aft,” he explained.

“That’s going to keep the ship safe with most of you inside while Spin, Nigel and I go see our old captain. We’ll be scouting him out first, seeing if we can’t connect with a few people we know are trustworthy on the crew. From there it can go one of two ways.”

“Wait, I’m going with you, right? I have a debt to settle with White too,” Dorian said.

“We’ll settle our issue first, since it’s our best way in. If we can connect with friendly crewmembers from the Cool Angel, then we can force a vote for Captain.”

“And you’ll put yourself up as a replacement?” Dorian asked. “They won’t go for that, not if Keith or Denise are still there. Keith is next in line as White’s First Mate and Denise is the favourite Lieutenant.”

“Right, there’s a chance the vote won’t go my way, but that’s slim. Captain White and his lieutenants sold us out, there’s no way his lieutenants didn’t know about this before or shortly after it happened, and if they found out about it shortly after, the rest of the crew would force them to hold a vote to get rid of White.

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