Dark Sky (Keiko) by Mike Brooks

Author:Mike Brooks [Brooks, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781473502956
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2015-11-04T22:00:00+00:00

CAT AND MAORI

JENNA FELT HER mouth go dry, but forced herself to remain calm. ‘There’s no reason for them to be looking for us. They’re probably searching for hidden politsiya officers, or something.’

‘As you say,’ Kunley replied, although neither his voice nor his face held much certainty. ‘You have no connection with either the rebels or with the government here?’

‘Hell no,’ Apirana rumbled, sitting down again. ‘Sure, we all got picked up by the cops on some gun-runnin’ charge, but it got dropped when they realised it weren’t us.’

‘Unless …’ Jenna thought furiously, but the logic appeared to be alarmingly sound. ‘What if Moutinho’s crew were the real gunrunners?’

‘Sounds feasible,’ Apirana grunted, his tattooed face frowning, ‘what’re you thinkin’?’

‘If they’re the real gunrunners, then that means they’re in with the rebellion,’ Jenna said, growing more alarmed even as she explained it. ‘If they are, then what if they’ve decided to paint us as some sort of … government spies, or something? Yeah, we got arrested earlier, but then we all got released without charge.’

Apirana grimaced. ‘I wish I could say you’re wrong, but you might just be right. I can imagine that kai kurakura spinnin’ it to say that we got let out because we cut a deal to report back, or something. It’s not like there ain’t bad blood between us.’

‘You think you may be in danger?’ Kunley asked. He sounded concerned, but Jenna was willing to bet that the concern wasn’t solely for them. The Circuit Cult here had treated them kindly and fairly, so far as she could tell, but there was a difference between taking someone in to attend to an injury for a reasonable payment and denying entry to armed rebels.

She looked at Apirana. ‘Can you move if you have to?’

‘Hell, I got three legs now instead of two,’ the Maori snorted. ‘Can’t promise I’ll be quick, but that ain’t exactly news.’

Jenna turned back to Kunley. ‘Do you have a back door?’

‘Of course,’ the logicator replied, looking dubious, ‘but he really shouldn’t be—’

‘A.’s lived through worse than a broken ankle before,’ Jenna assured him, casting around quickly to check that they’d left nothing important around. She picked up the two satchels of rescued belongings and slung them across her shoulders, one resting on each hip so she was as well-balanced as possible.

‘Yeah, I’m hard as, me,’ Apirana chuckled, although there wasn’t a great deal of humour in it. He levered himself back up onto his crutches and nodded to her. ‘You wanna make a move?’

‘Sooner seems better than later,’ Jenna agreed. She pulled up a map of Uragan City on her wrist console, grateful for her own foresight in taking it off the Spine as soon as they’d arrived and before it had been blocked off.

‘This is surely foolishness,’ Kunley said, worry now clearly audible in his voice. ‘You don’t even know what these rebels want!’

‘An’ by the time we do it’ll be too late, if what they want is us,’ Apirana pointed out.

‘Besides, if

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