Reborn by Blaze Ward

Author:Blaze Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781644702932
Publisher: Knotted Road Press

CHAPTER 33

Ernesta noted that she’d been stripped back down to comfortable clothing for indoors. Blue jeans. Plain, red T-shirt. Socks, because those boots were too warm.

Joie was there in a small chamber with a big table dominating the center. Carter as well.

“Romana Pham,” the other Human woman introduced herself.

“A lot of people have been looking for you,” Ernesta nodded. “Are you doing okay?”

The woman gaped at her. Probably everyone had forgotten to ask that, but none of them were parents, let alone grandparents. Ernesta brought an extra something to the conversation.

“I am,” Romana answered.

They all got settled.

“This is Tanerhald,” Joie introduced the other person. “He’s of the Brakhua.”

Lavender. Ernesta had a blouse almost exactly that color that she wore usually in the fall. He was small, too, but the man looked fast and sleek. Eight fingers instead of ten.

Ernesta also noted four other Humans around the outside of the chamber, standing like guards in uniforms identical to Romana’s. Armed like guards, while she didn’t even have her phone or wallet with her.

A bit over the top. It almost looked like a bad sci-fi vid, where the costumer went a touch heavy-handed with the visual metaphors.

Ernesta might have to have a chat with someone about better fashion choices later. After Joie worked her charm and magic on them first.

At least someone had provided mugs of coffee from the smell, as well as a carafe in the center of the smooth, black-finished table.

Ernesta glanced over at Carter, next to her, and gave him that special Mom look to remind him to behave. He occasionally forgot.

She could tell now by the blush that appeared. He wasn’t a bad guy. Just a goofball who didn’t always think things to their logical conclusions before jumping in.

“So, Captain Daring, we have assembled,” Tanerhald said.

“Call me Joie,” she said automatically. “Everyone else does.”

“Joie.”

“I to have to go all the way back to the beginning,” Joie said. “Well, not the beginning, but from the point when I was sent to La Plata to chase down Carter here, the first time. Before everything happened when I was forcibly retired by the TRC and Taylor Kehoe.”

Ernesta listened as Joie told the story again. She really did have a way with words, and had made enough peace with things that the anger was mostly subdued. Plus, Kehoe wasn’t here, though he had changed remarkably since she’d first grabbed him by the hair and put a pistol in his ear.

Some men learn.

“And then I appeared in a room with Romana across from me,” Joie finally finished up, having drunk an entire mug of coffee and part of a second one. Ernesta had largely been silent, save to interject a few points. Carter had wisely refrained from dirty jokes or social observations. “Then Tanerhald walked in and filled in a few points. We’re all here. How do we stop Bouchard from all the things he has been doing? How do we stop the Brakhua and others from what they have planned?”

“You would speak for the Heecha, Joie?” Tanerhald asked.

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