Sirius Academy (Jezebel's Ladder) by Scott Rhine

Author:Scott Rhine
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2012-05-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23 – Isolation Chamber

Daniel sat listening in the clinic room where Zeiss was being poked, prodded, and monitored. The TA confessed, “I screwed up.”

Trina paced and told him, “I saw the tapes. It could’ve happened to anyone. You did your best to contain the situation afterward, and you saved Mira from the immediate fallout. There’ll be another bonus.”

“Would you people stop with the damn money?!” Zeiss burst out. “What do you mean immediate?”

Trina said grimly, “The UN is sending investigators to look into the incident.”

“I know my story. I’ll stick to it.”

“That’s just it. Mira can’t. She’s killed people before—justified, but she confuses the incidents. We can’t afford for anyone to question her in this fragile state. She needs a few weeks to recover.”

“Send her to some spa and delay her a semester.”

“She won’t go. Worse, they want to know what broke our conditioning over the Rex. They’re supposed to be safe. Now the UN is worried any of the Rexes could go rogue.”

“And Red would do her best to convince them that the only good Rex is a dead one,” Zeiss sighed. “Or slip about her cover when she’s angry.”

“You understand why she needs to be sequestered,” said Trina. “I have a plan, but I need your help.”

“It’s that old Chinese curse: save someone’s life and you’re responsible for them forever,” Zeiss sighed. “Tell me. The pain meds will help.”

Daniel chuckled. “Actually, it’s that vacation time you’ve been requesting.”

“Pardon?”

“We’ll leak to the school that you and Red are suspected of faking a drug test,” the billionaire said. Zeiss paled. “One of the extreme administrative penalties is to sentence students to undergo isolation testing early. It’s brutal and causes a lot of washouts. Usually participation is voluntary and near the end of the third year. But if someone’s a problem, it gives us a chance to get rid of them early with no fuss.”

“That worked so well with Merrick.”

Trina glared at him. “Focus. Once it begins, nothing can interrupt the test short of a drop request or Marsh pulling them from the program. There are six people in the pod: no class, no TV, no computers, and no distractions for two weeks.”

Zeiss smiled. “I’ll sign. I don’t need a computer because I hand write all my math papers first. But why would I take this training?”

“Because I checked the ‘space travel’ box for you when you became my assistant,” Daniel admitted.

“For a chance to work on my dissertation in peace for two weeks, I’d do just about anything,” said Zeiss. “But Red needs a sympathetic woman for her room. She’s . . . still recovering from the attack.”

Trina looked at the floor. “I tried everything I could to make sure it would never happen to her too.”

Daniel held her hand. “You did. Who can we get? Sonrisa can’t miss that much class.”

“Mori-san emailed me his personal gratitude this morning,” Zeiss noted. “Kaguya told him I prevented the rape of both women and was injured in the process. When he demanded I name a reward, I asked him to send his personal explosives sweeper team.

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