The Last Mayor Box Set 3 by Michael John Grist

Author:Michael John Grist [Grist, Michael John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-23T06:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE 6

Rachel Heron sat across the table from James While, in room A12, Building 4, midway round the Logchain loop; one of her own rooms in her own facilities, cuffed by the wrists to a metal hook in the table. While looked at her and tried to square what he'd known with what he now knew.

What they'd just seen was a clear crime against humanity, and the obvious starting point for the assault on the hydrogen line.

The types from the T4 were never supposed to be made real. The SEAL had voted very clearly on that, when the T4 was first discovered. Analysis, yes, investigation, rendering of cells even, construction of basic DNA for testing, but nothing like this.

Now he'd put the whole complex on lockdown. Fresh forces were incoming. His squad was already securing every room and computer, rounding all Rachel Heron's people into an open pen to prevent the destruction of any incriminating records. The scale of the cleanup required was going to be epic.

And there sat Rachel Heron, slumped slightly, just recovering from the adrenaline shot that had brought her back around, but proud still. Unashamed. She didn't look so attractive anymore. Now she looked more like the Disney villain.

He tapped the table, drawing her gaze to his. She met it, but seemed only partly present. He felt that same distraction himself; the corridor had fried his thoughts, leaving a tight squeeze in his head.

"Interference on the line," Joran Helkegarde had told him five minutes earlier, explaining what it had felt like to be so close to Alpha Array. "In your head there's a confusion, a pain, nausea and vertigo."

James While checked off those sensations clinically. He'd taken painkillers and a tablet to stabilize the nausea. It helped, but it didn't help with the deeper sickness, rising from the sense of betrayal.

He studied Rachel Heron and saw it in her face, in her eyes. She'd known about this, and lied to his face. She was complicit, just as Olan Harrison was complicit, along with at least some of the other Heads. They'd withheld it from him intentionally, marking them all out as possible perpetrators of the hydrogen line blast. In the aftermath of the Array blowing, they'd only covered it up.

The pieces were spinning into place, making him dizzy. It had been going on for years. The creatures in the corridor were part of it. But there was so much still he didn't know.

"Rachel Heron," he said firmly, waiting for her eyes to settle on him. "You are under arrest in accordance with Article 33 of the Geneva Testament, the charge being Crimes against Humanity. The punishment if you are found guilty will be summary execution or lifetime imprisonment, whichever serves our purposes more fully. Your rights have now been suspended in line with the SEAL charter, and your only chance in this matter is full, frank, complete disclosure of your crimes. Am I understood?"

She looked at him. One of her eyes ticked rapidly, as some part of her came back online.

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