Day of War: A military space adventure series (The Silver Fleet Series Book 4) by R. L. Giddings

Author:R. L. Giddings
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

Ardent was bad tempered and in a hurry.

Things were currently not going well and she had a lot to do. It wasn’t a great combination but it was certainly a productive one. And, as much as she’d have liked to spend the whole afternoon visiting with Faulkner she realised that that wasn’t going to be possible and so had opted instead for a quick lightning visit just to check out how he was before she headed off. Which meant that she was going to have to forego the pleasures of the Rose Garden and hope she’d be able to get her daily dose of inner peace some other way. Although she didn’t hold out much hope of that.

The atmosphere aboard the Renheim was sombre – it had been like that ever since they arrived at their current position overlooking the site last occupied by the Laxx orbital. She hadn’t seen Meyer in days, he was too busy organising the retrograde action of searching for survivors. The fact that no one appeared to have survived didn’t seem to dissuade him from this task. He’d do anything rather than risk having to engage with the Loki. The Yakutian ship had withdrawn to take up its previous position roughly a half a million miles spinward of Laxx.

Part of the reason why the atmosphere hadn’t improved much since they’d arrived was largely down to the fact that the flight deck was currently doubling up as a morgue, with racks of white utilitarian coffins mounting up all the time. Somehow, it had fallen to Ardent to try and oversee things because of her wide experience on the public health side of things. There were currently over two hundred down there and the situation would soon hit crisis levels unless they could find a more efficient way of keeping the corpses refrigerated. There were other areas better suited to this task spread throughout the ship but these were normally used for food storage so clearing them out in order to store bodies was throwing up a whole new set of problems. Regardless, this was something they were going to have to resolve to avoid the situation getting much worse.

So she didn’t appreciate having to hang around waiting to be seen.

The Convalescent Suite was even quieter than normal. For one thing, there was no one manning reception. Ardent checked the time. Quarter past eleven. She had a meeting at eleven forty five which she couldn’t be late for.

She took a few steps past the reception desk and looked out into the lounge area.

No nursing staff in there or any patients for that matter. But that wasn’t so surprising. Most of the patients had classes or appointments with their doctors or physios at this time of the morning. Usually, visitors didn’t start arriving until well after lunch. Usually, one thirty, at the earliest.

Impatience got the better of her and she went over into the lounge area. There was absolutely no one about, but she noticed a vase had been knocked over, the flowers strewn across the floor.

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