Weapons Don't Have Names: Book 1 by Alex Gedd

Author:Alex Gedd [Gedd, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Planet New Plymouth. Spaceport

This was not the first time Chimbick moved in the open without his armor, but he couldn't get used to the feeling. The replicant felt naked and defenseless under strangers' eyes. But gradually, the discomfort started fading and disappeared completely once the sergeant realized that the reason for curious looks from passers by were not his scars, but the new look. And the girl walking by his side.

This aspect was particularly fascinating to the replicant; he decided to ask Angela about this when they had time for an in depth conversation. For example, why were men's looks full of envy? And women's looks, on the contrary, were downright hostile - but directed at Angela and not him? Mutts were definitely very strange...

Despite its status as a capital city, New Plymouth spaceport wasn't crowded; the war certainly had an effect, communication lines to Consortium controlled planets and stations were broken now. Also, some of the landing pads were commandeered for the newly created Union War Fleet, so many intrasystem flights were moved to other ports on the planet.

Sergeant's attention was drawn to a group of garishly dressed young men in the first class waiting lounge. The youngsters were sipping out of various bottles and drunkenly belting out a song, completely out of tune. One of them was standing on a table pretending to conduct this cacophony, while risking death from falling - he could barely keep himself upright. A couple of revelers saw Angela and moved to intercept, but reconsidered as soon as Chimbick turned his head to look at them. He gave them a harsh stare, but it seemed that whatever threat they might have presented was no longer there, so he sat down next to Angela.

"And these are the civilized people?" the replicant muttered.

With that, he picked up a brightly colored magazine printed on honest to god real paper and tried to read. However, much as he tried, he couldn't make heads or tails of it. Seemingly familiar words were combined into sentences in such a way that they became complete nonsense. "The world of high fashion", "haute couture costumes"... those just about melted the replicant's brain. Chimbick could ask Angela, but he wanted to decipher these bizarre articles himself, based on the experience he was able to acquire so far.

A colorful procession distracted him from reading. It was led by two somber gorillas dressed in black and red leather uniforms, decorated with a ridiculous amount of fastenings, zippers and buckles. Next walked something Chimbick first mistook for an android. A more attentive look made the replicant realize that this was a human being, but outfitted with decorative platinum implants. Chimbick just saw something similar in the fashion magazine and thought it was purely designer's vivid imagination. But now, staring at a real life example of this, he was wondering why someone would do this to their own body.

Platinum plates mounted on brow ridges mimicked the natural shape of an eyebrow. Ears were devoid of lobes, but embellished with platinum lace that made the ears look long and pointy.

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