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Mari Moonrazor adjusted her ocular implants to simulate normal human eyesight as she gazed over the forest of evergreens toward the rising sun. Pinks and oranges burnished the blue sky, the sight gorgeous and still novel to someone who'd spent most of her life on spaceships and habitats. She couldn't, however, help but... |
The wan sun did nothing to warm Mari as she sped over ice fields and away from the military outpost on a rented air bike, the wind needling her even through multiple layers of clothing. Her fingers were numb inside her gloves, and she could barely feel her toes, but she didn't care. She had done it.
She'd sneaked away ... |
From the icy tundra behind the military aircraft hangar, Mari sat on her air bike and contemplated the gray smoke rising from the mountains. Unless she was mistaken, it originated from the clifftop she had just searched. Was someone bombing the wreck? Whoever had been approaching in a shuttle as she'd left?
When she'd ... |
Kenji woke on his back, his vision blocked by something blue. He was shaking—no, shivering. The chill from cold hard cement seeped through his clothing and into his stiff body.
Before he figured out where he was, someone lifted the blue blanket off him. A tarp, he realized, feeling like a pile of lumber covered in some... |
Mari did not find it difficult to locate Kim Sato's address in the directory of Zamek University's student and faculty housing, nor was there a security checkpoint that she had to navigate through to get onto the campus. But as she drove the air bike through the streets to the residential area, she noticed law-enforcem... |
While Mari was debating if the crusher would allow her to stroll up and knock on the door, it surprised her by leaving its post on the single step that led up to the cottage. It walked across the grass and around the home to a fenced backyard. She leaned off to the side to see it spring over the fence and disappear int... |
"Kenji crouched in the shadows behind a tree several houses down from the cottage of Professor Dabro(...TRUNCATED) |
"Mari wanted to leave the university campus, having found nothing but trouble here, but she needed t(...TRUNCATED) |
"Kenji woke up in a brilliantly lit cell with the municipal police logo on a white wall, and he groa(...TRUNCATED) |
"Two hours passed before Lieutenant Hanabusa returned to Kenji's cell, not with the doctor but with (...TRUNCATED) |
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