Darkest Reach (Infinity's End Book 3) by Eric Warren

Author:Eric Warren [Warren, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eric Warren Author, LLC
Published: 2019-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

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Cas couldn’t seem to clear his head the entire way down to Bay Two. If thoughts of an argument with Evie didn’t keep popping up, Zenfor’s words would come back and play on repeat instead. What in the hell was going on? He was trying to do his job, dammit. If he didn’t know better he’d have thought he’d been treated better when he was a criminal.

He searched for Chief Rafnkell. She’d have to recall the pilots if they weren’t already down here so they could get to work on their ships. Cas wasn’t even sure how many they’d need to modify, but he wasn’t about to leave until the job was done this time. Another thought had managed to creep its way into the recesses of his mind, waiting until the fog of his complex relationships with the crew cleared: what if this creature at the center of this thing was intelligent? What if this was its way of trying to communicate and it didn’t understand what it was doing to them? He hadn’t wanted to consider it, but as a Coalition officer he had no choice. The possibility existed that these electromagnetic bands holding the ship were an attempt at saying hello. A survey ship should be doing this job, not a stealth vessel. Every hour they wasted trying to get away from this thing the Andromeda swarm grew closer. And Tempest was the only hope for giving the Coalition any preliminary information about them. Which Cas hoped included their intent. As soon as he knew what they wanted, he’d feel a lot better.

Rafnkell stood in the corner of the bay at one of the mechanic’s stations, speaking with a crewman as Cas approached. As soon as she saw him her face fell. “Not you again.” She put her hands on her hips. “I thought I made it clear to command I didn’t want someone down here who couldn’t finish the job.”

“The job got done, didn’t it?” Cas countered.

“That’s not—”

“Chief, I know you don’t want me here. But this is how it’s going to be. We have a second round of modifications we need to make to the fighters, so I need you to recall the pilots so we can get to work.”

“I don’t take orders from you or Coalition Central, Mr. Robeaux,” she replied. “So you can go shove your order up your ass.” The crewman glanced between them; her eyes wide.

“You’re on a Coalition Central ship, so you’re subject to the rank just like everyone else. I know you know how this works. Recall your pilots, Chief.”

She gave him a hard stare, massaging the area around her lips with one hand, as if to consider if she should beat the crap out of him right here or comply with the order. Rafnkell stepped forward. “Yeah, I know how it works on this ship, little man,” she said. She wasn’t much taller than Cas, but it was enough so he had to glance up slightly to meet her eyeline.

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