The Price of the Stars: book One of Mageworlds
“PLEYVER: HIGH STATION NAMMERIN: NAMPORT; CENTRAL WETLANDS THREE DAYS after his arrival at High Station, Commander Gil shoved his chair back against the office wall and looked at the blank screen of his desk comp in disgust. Only a polite regard for the tender sensibilities of the clerk/comptech the station had assigned to him as a runner, secretary, and clerk kept him from tearing his hair out in handfuls.
But I’m seriously tempted, he thought. Everything I check comes up zeroes—and the General isn’t likely to take ‘Sir, I haven’t the faintest idea’ as an acceptable report.
Gil sighed. “All right. Let’s take it again from the top.”
“Bringing up the timetable now, sir,” said the clerkcomptech, and Gil watched the familiar data moving in a slow scroll up the screen of the desk comp.
Item: two strangers enter clinic. Time approximately 2200.
Item: Flatlands power grid goes down in the Ilx-3 sector. Time 2209.27.
Item: Certainly a dozen, possibly as many as a hundred, unknowns attack the... clinic from at least two directions at once.MoreLess
But I’m seriously tempted, he thought. Everything I check comes up zeroes—and the General isn’t likely to take ‘Sir, I haven’t the faintest idea’ as an acceptable report.
Gil sighed. “All right. Let’s take it again from the top.”
“Bringing up the timetable now, sir,” said the clerkcomptech, and Gil watched the familiar data moving in a slow scroll up the screen of the desk comp.
Item: two strangers enter clinic. Time approximately 2200.
Item: Flatlands power grid goes down in the Ilx-3 sector. Time 2209.27.
Item: Certainly a dozen, possibly as many as a hundred, unknowns attack the... clinic from at least two directions at once.MoreLess
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