City of Pearl (2005)
City of Pearl
“This is in response to diplomatic contact between the wess’har and the isenj. Please ensure you notify the duty officer of exact plans of movement and estimated return times when you travel off camp.
Behind the cool room where the colonists kept the last of the autumn onions and pumpkins, there was a dull gray composite cabinet about the size of a restaurant refrigerator. It could have held sides of bacon. But that was out of the question here.
Shan touched it and looked up at the frame that st...ood a little higher than her head. The Suppressed Briefing said nothing. “Is that it?”
Josh was agitated. He hovered in her peripheral vision, glancing at Aras and getting no reaction from him. “It’s part of it,” he said.
“Open it up, please.”
“Now?”
“Josh, I need to know. We have a ship inbound from Earth and a very real chance that we’re all going to have our trip cut short rather violently if the wess’har think we’re allying with the isenj. I was sent here for this.MoreLess
Behind the cool room where the colonists kept the last of the autumn onions and pumpkins, there was a dull gray composite cabinet about the size of a restaurant refrigerator. It could have held sides of bacon. But that was out of the question here.
Shan touched it and looked up at the frame that st...ood a little higher than her head. The Suppressed Briefing said nothing. “Is that it?”
Josh was agitated. He hovered in her peripheral vision, glancing at Aras and getting no reaction from him. “It’s part of it,” he said.
“Open it up, please.”
“Now?”
“Josh, I need to know. We have a ship inbound from Earth and a very real chance that we’re all going to have our trip cut short rather violently if the wess’har think we’re allying with the isenj. I was sent here for this.MoreLess
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