Lunar Colony VI by Keuser A

Author:Keuser, A [Keuser, A]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: A. B. Keuser
Published: 2015-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

TERMINAL SHIFT

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crutiny was something Nala Klef stringently avoided. With a new name, her skill with electrical engineering, and the forged

paperwork to back up both, she’d accepted her job on Lunar Colony Six with a plan to keep her head down and to let her past as a bomb builder fade into memory.

She’d been doing well, too… until a handful of days ago.

Now, in the Partner’s chambers, she had to do something drastic. Head in her hands, fingers pressed to the skin of her forehead and temples, she glared at the floor while her elbows dug into the top of her legs. The meeting happening overtop of her could be disastrous and she couldn’t keep herself from fidgeting.

“You’re wasting time,” she said under her breath even though she knew the four women who ran the colony wouldn’t hear her.

The current disaster had little to do with her past life as Verity Luttrens and everything to do with the myriad events a woman known to her only as “Diana” had set in motion. It had started with a nearly destroyed skywalk in which she’d been trapped with a bomb of her own making. Power outages and the transfer of the colony’s power to the aspersion hub had added to the damage, and finally, the discovery of the woman who’d murdered at least three of the colony’s citizens. They had yet to discover the full extent of Diana’s involvement in the whole mess.

For the brief time the colony partners had Diana in custody, she’d pointed them toward Verity, and the discussion occurring now was pure damage control. The partners believed Verity was involved, and until they got back on track, the full force of their authority couldn’t be turned toward looking for the true problems.

The impending crisis in the colony was more important than keeping her identity safe. Pushing herself to her feet, she barked out a single order, “Be quiet!”

The affronted looks she received would have been comical if she wasn’t exhausted and frustrated to the point of apathy.

She cleared her throat, and before anyone cut her off, said, “We can’t call out and we don’t know what’s happened within the colony walls with any real certainty. Talking isn’t going to fix our problems. So right now, I’m going to answer the questions you don’t know you need to ask. Then we’re going to deal with the issues that are actually putting the lives of your colony’s citizens at risk.”

Partner Chadha started to speak, but Nala held up a hand. “Verity is not behind this. Diana used her name to distract you.”

“How can you be sure?” Chadha asked.

At the same moment, Partner Elodie said, “The bomb inside the skywalk with you had her signature.”

Partner Dendrond shook her head behind them with a wide-eyed warning. Nala ignored her.

“I would not have tried to kill myself.”

Silence struck through the room and Nala let herself observe the slow recognition and shock sweeping over the faces of the three partners who hadn’t known.

She continued before any of them could interrupt.

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