Four Bodies in Space (New Voyages, #1) by Luna Harlow

Author:Luna Harlow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: space opera, psychic powers
Publisher: Luna Harlow
Published: 2019-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

WITH HANDS BEHIND HER back, Solaris paced up and down the confines of the small walkway. The Moving Along Silently, her home for several years, was now nothing more than scrap metal. Captain Savage was in no condition to command.

She felt her career, her life, was in limbo, with no good answers as to why.

Dr Pill walked out of the Captain's room, wiping his hands on a small towel. He seemed to have become strangely sweaty since they'd arrived at the station, like a man who could not stop feeling the heat of that burning room. Ridiculous. He should check himself for endocrine disorders to avoid having to wipe his bodily fluids on a towel so often. His constant need to wipe his hands was scraping at the edge of Solaris's nerves.

"The outlook isn't good," Dr Pill said. He used the towel to wipe at his face as well. The air in this level of the station was set to the same blandly cool temperature as all the ships members of the UAP space forces served on. How could there be any need to wipe sweat from his face?

"No?" Richards asked, pale-faced, sitting as he was on one of the pale orange velvet bench seats that undoubtedly matched the decor of the civilian hotel on a lower floor.

"The Captain won't be returning to duty any time soon," Dr Pill said. "Even if he could walk on his own, they'd forcibly retire him. It's for the best. I don't know that I want to be in this force any more, either."

"What will they do with us?" Richards asked. His voice was small and pitiful.

Dr Pill gripped his towel and leaned against the wall. "They'll reassign everyone who stays on, and you'll be grateful for your new assignment, or they'll rush you out. If you're lucky you'll get to work on another ship. If not, administration somewhere."

Richards was leaned over, eyes on his own feet, slowly clawing at his own hands as he listened.

"Sit up straight, lieutenant," Solaris ordered.

He complied, immediately, but set his eyes to stare at the grey wall in front of him instead.

Dr Pill sighed. "McIntyre's gofer told me both Captain Smith and Vice-Marshal Su's daughter are here, so you may be lucky yet."

"I don't want to serve under some nepotism pick who doesn't know how to handle how to handle a ship and gets me killed," Richards said. An annoyingly loud outburst, after speaking in such annoyingly quiet tones for the previous thirty eight minutes.

"Nobody gets this far by nepotism, boy," Dr Pill said.

Solaris continued to pace.

"And what of Lady Free?" she asked.

Dr Pill looked at her with a dull look of surprise. "She'll go where Captain Savage goes. I thought you knew that."

Even more ridiculous. Solaris unclasped her hands from behind her back and pushed her way into Captain Savage's room. The lighting was unnecessarily dim inside and Lady Free sat in a chair beside the captain's bed, typing something into a data pad.

"Why are you not choosing to continue as the captain of your own ship?" Solaris asked.

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