Zombie Ocean (Book 6): The Laws by Grist Michael John

Author:Grist, Michael John [Grist, Michael John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2016-12-22T05:00:00+00:00

INFLUX

ANNA 1

Anna was on a rare, hard-won break on the Golden Horn in Istanbul, standing beside a shallow reflecting pool between two ancient mosques beneath a burning blue sky, when Lucas's voice came in on the walkie, as calm and controlled as ever.

"Anna, there's something happening on the hydrogen line you really need to see. Pick up!"

Anna frowned, distracted enough to drop a second on her time around the shallow pool in front of the historic Aya Sofia mosque. Her boat was a 48-inch ProBoat Rockstar with a water-cooled 26cc gas engine, able to hit speeds above 40mph. Ravi beside her, lying down at the water's side while he sipped on Turkish raki, controlled a 42-inch ProBoat BlackJack 29 capable of 45mph with a 2000Kv brushless motor.

He grunted lazily. "There's always some new breakthrough on the hydrogen line. Let him come out here. He needs the exercise."

"You need the exercise," Anna said, nudging his shoulder with her foot, which knocked his attention off-balance just long enough for her to clip his faster model round the red buoy at the end of their course.

"Did you-?" he spluttered, then cursed. "Damn it, that's it." He rolled onto his knees to focus more fully, gently whipping her ankles with the springy antenna of his remote control pad as his body spun around.

Anna gasped with the sharp, slight pain, and then the race was on. In the background Lucas kept on trying on the walkie, but both Anna and Ravi were too intently focused on the water as their two little boats, one black and yellow like a hornet, one red and black, buzzed and chugged around the reflecting pool.

It was their new hobby, a welcome distraction from the heavy matters of state involved with marching from bunker to bunker and dropping on each one in turn the news of the end of their world as they knew it.

It took a toll, and it was at Peters' advice that Anna had started delegating more.

"This," he'd said one day, looking at her as she pored over another sheet of calculations and genetic markers in their mobile lab, plainly exhausted from the non-stop load she'd carried since returning from the States. "It's arrogance. Your head will blow up, boom."

He'd made a 'boom' gesture. He'd been right. He'd got Ravi to back him up, and gradually they weaned her off delving into the depths of the T4 and hydrogen line science. Now Lucas was in charge of it, along with Jake and Sulman who ate that stuff up. They got absorbed in the scientific details, the long back and forths about the cure to come, the genetic sequences, and while Anna loved to get reports on their progress and stay abreast of any changes in their understanding, it was just not feasible for her to take an active role anymore.

Her skills were better spent on leadership, security and logistics, on judging the people they spoke to and selling them on the treaty she and Amo had put together, in concert with the Council.

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