World Shift by K Gorman

Author:K Gorman [Gorman, K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Karin smoothed her hands across her forearms, smearing light across her skin like glowing chalk dust and rubbing it in until it reabsorbed, then rolled her shoulders and stretched her back to ease the strain of working at a hunch.

After an hour’s worth of tests and sitting around in the lab, she’d been escorted back to the gymnasium. Baik, apparently having taken the cues from their discussion early this morning, had arranged for another few truckloads of Lost to arrive at the complex that afternoon, which had, despite her situation, made her feel productive, at least.

When it came right down to it, she didn’t care who she was working under—so long as she could keep healing the Lost and fighting back against humanity’s slow extinction.

Well, maybe not so slow anymore, depending on what Dr. Sasha was doing with all those people who’d gone missing. Given that the whole weird eclipse thing was the presumed-aggression of a parallel world, Karin guessed that the good doctor was up to her pocket dimension shenanigans again, effectively spiriting people away.

She wasn’t sure how parallel dimension physics worked—hells, she wasn’t even sure if they were supposed to work. So many of the Eurynome Project’s manifested abilities went against the laws of life and physics—but, by the things she’d heard from the soldiers who were assisting her with the Lost, it was undeniably creepy. Stories of people vanishing after walking around corners or other breaks in the line of sight, others who’d gone out for an errand and simply never returned. There were even reports of people vanishing in plain sight, there one second and gone the next.

The military was collecting people into evacuation areas, places where they’d set up similar beacons to the one on top of the complex that at least provided some protection. A secondary evacuation had begun over the last few weeks, shuttling people into orbital stations then out from there, but it was a balance between how much a station’s life support could manage and how fast they could be transported farther out. A logistics nightmare involving people who, in many cases, did not want to leave the planet they’d been living on. Still more had dug in and evaded the evacuation sweeps, intent on staying.

The cities must be a mess. Even the most well-behaved planets could turn into near-anarchy, and each population had its share of looters and opportunists. Nova Earth’s population had a tougher reputation than the other planets, a greater divide between the wealthy and the lower class, each with near-equal population sizes, and only a comparatively-small middle class in between. The system’s richest planet was also one of its most dangerous.

But, according to the netdramas, Nova Earth’s organized crime knew how to love, at least. She and Soo-jin were following three such series, one a matchmaking drama and two others on star-crossed mob lovers. A fourth series of theirs floated close to the genre, except half the characters happened to be hot space vampires. Even Moon Sailor, the system’s most-beloved, had two entire season arcs dedicated to the topic.

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