Fortune's Honor by Jenna Bennett

Author:Jenna Bennett [Jenna Bennett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, science fiction romance, sf, sfr, space opera, action adventure, military, planets, empire
Publisher: Magpie Ink
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

By the time Holden got back to the boiler room, Isaac was making plans for fetching the lightflyer and bringing it closer to the Plaza. Quinn and Elsa had had to abandon it—along with the distraction—several blocks away, since there had been Rhenian maggots crawling all over everything, as Quinn put it. With the obligatory apology to Elsa afterwards.

“I’ll get it,” Holden offered. It beat sitting here, with nothing to do but to go over and over the plan with the others, and to turn the problem of Josie over and over in his head while he waited.

Isaac looked mutinous and Holden added, “We were lucky on the way here—”

Isaac snorted, as if to register his opinion that it had been skill rather than luck, his own skill, that had kept them safe on the trip, but he didn’t actually say anything.

“It’s much easier for me to do it,” Holden said. “Nobody will think twice about seeing me. There are plenty of Rhenian guards out and about. I can pick it up and drive it here, get it all the way onto the Plaza, and make up some kind of story for the guards. They’re probably drunk already, so they won’t be able to think too hard about anything I say.”

“Drunk?” Quinn said.

“Paco said one of them sent him to a saloon to pick up a bottle of rotgut earlier. He mentioned seeing a man named Manuel Calderilla there.” He turned to Inez, who had made a quick and aborted movement: raising her hand halfway, as if to ward off the evil eye. “You know him?”

“Know of him,” Inez said. “Know his name.”

“Paco said it was Calderilla who tipped the Rhenians that his brother Estevo was running messages for the resistance. When the guards chased Estevo, he was hit by a groundcar and killed.”

Everyone winced but Inez. Perhaps that kind of story was common here on Marica.

“Anyway,” Holden continued, “the guards out front are passing the time with a bottle of mixto. Nobody seems to think there’s any need to worry. General consensus is that we’re too cowardly to do anything.”

Isaac snorted again. Quinn smiled.

“If you’ll tell me where to park the lightflyer, I’ll get it here. If they think it’s mine, they probably won’t even give it a second look.”

Quinn glanced at Isaac, who grimaced. “You have all the fun, kid.”

Oh, sure. “If you were a decade younger and a different color, I’d be happy to let you do it.”

Isaac grinned and Holden added, “If we’re ever caught up in a civil war on Sumatra, it’s all yours. But...”

“Yeah, yeah. You want Inez to go with you?”

“I’m probably better off on my own,” Holden said diplomatically. Inez looked too much like the soldier she was, and pretending they were an amorous couple wouldn’t work, because nobody in their right mind would believe that Inez would ever be interested in someone like Holden. Or vice versa, for that matter. Besides, he found her unsettling. “If anyone, I should probably take Elsa.

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