Fearless by Tim Lott

Author:Tim Lott [Lott, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781406348941
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2013-04-18T04:00:00+00:00

YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER SECTOR FOUR.

SECTOR FOUR IS SPONSORED BY THE EPSILON CORPORATION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY BOSS.

A few minutes later, the lorry slowed down so suddenly that she almost lost her balance and fell. It came to a halt, and the engine was switched off. Little Fearless craned her neck and saw a large sign: BUY OMEGA GAZOIL AND GO FASTER. She saw the man with the scar and the scrubby beard vault out of his cab. She had a few seconds to make her escape while he filled up with gazo. She jumped, hit the ground, and slid immediately on a slick of gazoil, falling and soaking the leg of her trousers. She let out a cry, and thought she saw the man turn and stare. So she leaped up and fled, and soon she was away from the gazoil station and running down an ordinary street.

She was tempted to knock on the nearest door and spill out her story. Yet she didn’t feel it would be very wise just to burst into somebody’s home while they were watching their vidscreen to tell them a tale that they would be unlikely to believe.

She followed the map carefully, and within twenty minutes she’d found the street where Soapdish’s parents lived – Enterprise Lane. It was a flat, plain road, and the dwellings were poor, run-down, and very modest in size. Scrubby trees lined the pavements. She worked her way down the street: 5, 39, 51. Soapdish’s parents lived at number 73.

Then the houses simply stopped. The remainder had been demolished. Instead there was a huge refreshment zone selling hot java juice and taninine. Business people in suits that all looked the same were sitting inside, not talking but working – scribbling on paper, staring at screens and tapping at keyboards. Serving staff handed out drinks in polystyrene cups and sandwiches wrapped in plastic in return for a few credits. Little Fearless watched them, amazed at the smiles that never left their faces as they served the customers. Were they paid to grin like monkeys?

Little Fearless sat on the ground and buried her head in her hands. She didn’t have a clue what to do. After a minute or two, she pulled herself together and took the map out of her pocket, to try to work out the way to Angel Square. Suddenly she heard an entirely unexpected noise: loud applause. She looked up and saw a great spire beyond the refreshment zone. She remembered what Soapdish had said about there being one of the largest worship zones in the City at the end of her road.

She followed the noise. It was coming from a large hall which was attached to a church – the Fifteenth Church of Eidolon, more precisely, which was sponsored by the Theta Corporation, according to the sign. Outside was a poster that announced:

THETA 15 WORSHIP ZONE.

THE CITY BOSS SPEAKS – TONIGHT.

Despite herself, Little Fearless could not resist peeping inside. She was curious to see what the great City Boss looked like in the flesh.

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