(eng) Michael Formichelli - Orion Spur 02 by Keltan's Gambit

Author:Keltan's Gambit [Gambit, Keltan's]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Ikuzlu City, Kosfanter

41:2:17 (J2400:3142)

They had tempestuous seas for five days, but Cylus didn’t tell Ben to stop the ship until the great brown and red arc of Matre stretched across the horizon in the western sky. The Keltan’s Gambit now floated in the Xiar’Shiv, the Twilight Sea, a region of the ocean where both the sun and Matre’s light were at equal levels on the tidally locked moon. The interplay of the two made the tranquil sea look like liquid gold splashing against the ship’s hull. Seated among the wide chairs on the aft deck, he watched a school of meter-long serpentine fish dance in the yacht’s frothy wake. They used four sets of wing-like fins to leap through the air, holding a perfect arc until their tapered noses splashed into the shimmering water.

He heard the light patter of bare feet coming up the stairway behind him, and turned to see Pasqualina emerge from below deck dressed in a sky-blue jumpsuit that left her legs and forearms bare. She carried a tray with a pair of sandwiches and vibrant-green drinks in narrow glasses. She handed one of each to him before sitting down in the chair opposite his. Her pupils vanish into a field of solid blue as her cybernetic corneas compensated for the light.

“How are you feeling?” It was the same question she asked every morning since they set sail.

“Numb,” he responded as usual. Though the bruises faded, thanks in part to the accelerated healing provided by nanomeds, the gravel in his voice remained. They hadn’t put his larynx back together the right way, and the sound rubbed his nerves raw.

She nodded at him with a soft expression.

“It’s a lot to deal with—be the Premier or die. Damn Sophi.” He knew he still hadn’t accepted what was going on. Things were moving faster than he could process.

There was no word from Sable, and though he was concerned about his friend, he worried for himself more. Right now the damn fish had more allies than he did. He was afraid to contact Sophi for fear of what she might say about what happened, and with Sable not returning his messages there was no one except Pasqualina. She was there for him since the palace, and now that he thought about it, she had been every day since they got back from the Queen Gaia. Was she a spy being nice to him to get information? He wasn’t the schemer of their group, Sophi was. He only ever did what people told him. He was a leaf in the wind, going whichever way Sophi or Zalor blew him. What possible information could Pasqualina give to his enemies?

“Cy?” She leaned forward, her eyes searching his face. She looked at him with a concern that he wanted to believe was genuine.

From the time she moved in he had Ben monitor her communications. There weren’t any transmissions from the Keltan Tower to Zalor, or Hagus, or anyone other than Sophi. That didn’t mean

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