Cygnus 5- The Complete Trilogy by Alex Oliver

Author:Alex Oliver [Oliver, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-25T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Snow City PD

Nori and Mboge had been bundled together into the Snow City police’s station wagon--a metal repulsor-sled box barely two feet square. Mboge found himself oddly comforted when Nori curled into his arms and put his head down on his shoulder. The air slits in the box let in a spackling of light with which he could see Nori's fluffy dark hair, and a... He touched it cautiously with a fingertip - a dot in the back of Nori's neck where a thin ring of silver interrupted the skin and held open a tiny black hole, about a millimeter in diameter. Now he was looking, he could see a row of three more further down the boy's spine.

"Does it hurt?" he asked, brushing over the topmost hole, watching as a small grill slid back into the housing once his finger had passed.

"Hm?" Nori raised his head a fraction, enough to show Mboge that he wasn't following, and then laughed. "The ports? Of course not." But his face clouded. "I mean, a lot of the time they feel empty. I miss being connected. I miss being fully sentient, but that's not a physical pain."

"You're one of the cleverest people I've ever met," Mboge's head felt stuffed with cotton wadding at all the many things he didn't understand, didn't know how to deal with. "Why would you say you weren't sentient?"

Nori gave a little huff through his nose, and squeezed himself closer. That was rather appealing. It gave Mboge a warm little shiver of affection that he hoped would not turn itself into anything lewd. Cautiously, trying not to encourage anything of that kind, he slipped his hand into Nori's hair, which was as soft as he had imagined, and with a small caressing pressure encouraged him to put his head back down.

"You're from a dumb world. You wouldn't understand."

Nice, Mboge thought, insulted a little. But then he thought of their captors outside, walking them through the icy tunnels of the asteroid toward whatever passed for justice in Snow City, and he figured that now was not the time to be quarreling with his planet-mate. "You know what I don't understand? I don't understand how a simple shopping trip could go so wrong so fast."

"Our luck's got to change at some point."

Mboge was surprised to find he was smiling. "You believe in luck?"

Nori chuckled into his collarbone. "No, no actually I don't."

Some twenty paces later they were lowered into a chute, and slid like a bobsleigh down an icy incline to bounce from a forcefield at the end of it. Rushing noises, and scraped snow came up through the gaps in the box beneath their feet, and then the box plopped through the ceiling of a crowded room and unfolded around them, leaving them huddled together in the center dimple of a spherical room, where the two officers who had arrested them already sat on chairs hollowed out of the walls.

Something about the two of them reassured Felix. Maybe it

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