Silver Enigma by Rock Whitehouse

Author:Rock Whitehouse [Whitehouse, Rock]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781732766600
Publisher: BOHICASquared, LLC
Published: 2018-10-24T23:00:00+00:00

Antares

Enroute GJ 1061

Sunday, May 8, 2078, 0530 UTC

Carol woke up with a start, suddenly aware that Antares was underway, and in a rush. Looking at her clock, she saw the early hour, her typical wake-up time, but today she had the day off, in port no less, with a brunch date with Dan to finish up their conversation. But obviously they were no longer in port. She sat up on the edge of the bed to try to clear the confusion bouncing from side to side in her head. She had a small headache, too.

"Otbara is overdue," she heard a voice say quietly, it's Chula Vista roots still audible. "We're going to try to find her."

She finally shook herself fully awake and could process her roommate's comment.

"It's almost four days, so Michael decided not to roust you. We've been underway about an hour."

"Shit," Carol swore softly.

Marcia sat on the edge of her bunk. "So how did it go with Smith?"

Carol looked at her with a scowl not fully visible in the darkened room.

"Can't think about that now, Marsh. Did Michael come looking for me?"

Marcia shook her head, not that Carol could see it.

"No. I heard them running around just after oh four hundred getting some of the division chiefs up, so I went out. George said to let you sleep, and he'd get with you in the morning."

"Good, thanks," she paused, "Four days...shit..."

"That's twice in five minutes, Hansen. You're going to spoil that choir-girl rep if you keep this up," Marcia kidded her.

Even in the dark Carol managed to hit Marcia with her pillow. She got up, dressed, and headed for the Bridge before 0600 to see what she could do.

The time with Dan had gone well, even if she didn't have time to bring Marcia Soto up to speed, and part of her was thankful and relieved to have a clearer heart. But the rational part of her knew that the whole question of who to love and how and when might just be moot. They would have to live through the war for it to matter. Or would they? She suddenly asked herself, making the final turn into the narrow corridor to the Bridge. Might it not be enough to love each other right now, even if it was only until one of them was gone? No time for that, she quickly decided. Meanwhile, she repeated to herself, meanwhile, we fight.

Carol finished up a Conn shift for an officer who hadn't had any sleep. XO James George remained on the Bridge until Terri Michael came out of her duty cabin around 0900.

The day had the odd 'hurry-up-and-wait' feeling to it. They had scrambled to get off Kapteyn and underway as soon as possible. Now that they were moving, there was little for them to do for nearly four days. For Carol, those days could not move fast enough. They were running in low-EMR mode, so anything she wanted to say to Powell would just have to wait until this mission was over.

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