Through Glass Darkly: Episode Three by Knyte Peter

Author:Knyte,Peter [Knyte,Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Clandestine Books Limited
Published: 2016-10-06T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 40 – COME INTO MY PARLOUR

We’d been planning to meet with the Captain later on that evening anyway to try and figure out what the saboteurs might do, if as we suspected, they’d taken the marine suits and abandoned ship in the Expanse, but after Ariel had come up with the idea for driving the creature out of wherever it was hiding and into a trap I was seriously tempted to just go and find him there and then in order to get things moving as soon as possible.

But there was a part of me that knew the Captain was already being pulled in a dozen different directions by the repair teams working on the ship, by the city officials eager to capture and kill the creature that had been preying upon their most vulnerable citizens, and by the highest levels of the world’s political organisations, who were each eager to get as much benefit for their own countries and citizens from our arrival as they could. And these were just the pressures of which I was aware, I couldn’t even guess what additional factors the Captain might be putting on himself, or how he might be coping with the near destruction of his ship.

I needed to let some of these thoughts permeate through my brain for a bit, so by way of a break I suggested to Ariel that we spend an hour or so assisting the technicians in finishing off the simplified lensing rigs and then once that was out of the way we could arrange one final brain-storming session between the two of us to discuss the saboteurs before going to see the Captain.

Previously, working on something familiar that didn’t require much in the way of concentration had often helped me to think my way around different problems, and one of my favourite familiar activities for this kind of thing had been the servicing of my gun and my lensing rig. But when Ariel described the assembly of the simplified lensing rigs as being a bit monotonous, she was being kind.

Each rig only took about ten minutes to put together and test, but it was ten minutes when the brain was barely required at all, and while Ariel and the technicians did their best to keep up a lively chatter, after half an hour or so, with the deep golden sunlight casting ever longer shadows across the room through the open doorway I found my mind slipping into that daydream other state that often lead to great insights.

For a moment my mind slipped back to the foothills of the Himalaya, and the last few days of our shakedown voyage.

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