Annihilation: Love Conquers All by Saxon Andrew, Derek Chiodo
Authors: Saxon Andrew, Derek Chiodo
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right,” Tara said, almost crying. “I haven’t thought it through. That’s exactly what would happen.”
“Well, at least after today I’ll know where I stand and try to put this behind me,” Leila said.
Tag sat in his seat and knew that what was going to happen today was only the beginning. He knew Leila was about to face the full attention of security investigators because of the theft of her test booklet. He also knew that she knew absolutely nothing about it, and the investigators would make that determination quickly. She would not be able to offer a clue as to how it went missing. He suspected she would have to endure questions about all her friends and anyone else that she had spoken to after the test. Her reactions to their questions would be genuine and honest and the security truth fields would show that. He was hoping that this would lead to her being made to take the test again. Since she had never spoken with him and had not seen him when he gazed at her, then it should be impossible for the investigators to connect them, he determined.
Tag’s wildest dream didn’t touch what he saw when the floater stopped at school. There was a heavy security floater unloading boxes, and ten security speed floaters parked around the entrance. That was a lot, but what really concerned him was the company of armed naval marines in full battle armor surrounding the school. He felt a sinking feeling in his stomach, fearing that the enforcement division had been able to tie the theft and the fight together.
“Here goes nothing,” he thought.
Chapter 7
C hief Inspector Esa Connor looked around the crime scene and tried to picture what happened. Usually he had no problem determining the sequence of events of a crime. But this one had him really confused. “The pieces just don’t fit,” he thought. There were eight emergency vehicles parked around the crime scene, and their flashing lights almost made the area look like a dance club. The blood on the wall and ground looked black instead of red in the flashing blue and violet lights. The bodies were sprawled along the wall of a building with the two shooters on each end possessing all the weapons that were used in the fight, two of them being the knives stuck in the men. “Someone obviously made a point with those two,” Connor thought. The two dead men in the center looked like they had been beaten with a small building. “Looks like head trauma killed both of them, not the broken and cut arms. I just can’t figure the order here. One thing for certain, these four look like eight miles of bad highway,” he thought.
Danielle Ash, a Directorate medical technician, inserted the electronic beam into a victim’s mouth and recorded the results on her med screen. She had arrived thirty minutes earlier and had immediately started her analysis. The flashing strobe lights of the security floaters made the crime scene look otherworldly. The bodies on the sidewalk next to the building looked almost plastic in the flashes that were being reflected off the crystal windows of the building. This was her third straight shift and she was starting to feel the fatigue. “Be sharp,” she commanded herself. “Inspector Connor won’t tolerate sloppiness.” Her supervisor had assigned her a third shift knowing how tired she was. Danielle suspected that her supervisor felt threatened by the quality of her work, so she was assigned shifts where superiors wouldn’t be around to see her. “Looks like she made a mistake tonight,” Danielle thought as she probed the second body.
She was small, standing only five feet five and weighing 125 pounds. She had her blond hair tied into a braid that hung below her shoulders and she wore the customary helmet with faceplate as she examined the four dead bodies. She had to use leverage to move them, but she was capable of handling the weight. “This doesn’t make sense,” she thought again, and began taking
“Well, at least after today I’ll know where I stand and try to put this behind me,” Leila said.
Tag sat in his seat and knew that what was going to happen today was only the beginning. He knew Leila was about to face the full attention of security investigators because of the theft of her test booklet. He also knew that she knew absolutely nothing about it, and the investigators would make that determination quickly. She would not be able to offer a clue as to how it went missing. He suspected she would have to endure questions about all her friends and anyone else that she had spoken to after the test. Her reactions to their questions would be genuine and honest and the security truth fields would show that. He was hoping that this would lead to her being made to take the test again. Since she had never spoken with him and had not seen him when he gazed at her, then it should be impossible for the investigators to connect them, he determined.
Tag’s wildest dream didn’t touch what he saw when the floater stopped at school. There was a heavy security floater unloading boxes, and ten security speed floaters parked around the entrance. That was a lot, but what really concerned him was the company of armed naval marines in full battle armor surrounding the school. He felt a sinking feeling in his stomach, fearing that the enforcement division had been able to tie the theft and the fight together.
“Here goes nothing,” he thought.
Chapter 7
C hief Inspector Esa Connor looked around the crime scene and tried to picture what happened. Usually he had no problem determining the sequence of events of a crime. But this one had him really confused. “The pieces just don’t fit,” he thought. There were eight emergency vehicles parked around the crime scene, and their flashing lights almost made the area look like a dance club. The blood on the wall and ground looked black instead of red in the flashing blue and violet lights. The bodies were sprawled along the wall of a building with the two shooters on each end possessing all the weapons that were used in the fight, two of them being the knives stuck in the men. “Someone obviously made a point with those two,” Connor thought. The two dead men in the center looked like they had been beaten with a small building. “Looks like head trauma killed both of them, not the broken and cut arms. I just can’t figure the order here. One thing for certain, these four look like eight miles of bad highway,” he thought.
Danielle Ash, a Directorate medical technician, inserted the electronic beam into a victim’s mouth and recorded the results on her med screen. She had arrived thirty minutes earlier and had immediately started her analysis. The flashing strobe lights of the security floaters made the crime scene look otherworldly. The bodies on the sidewalk next to the building looked almost plastic in the flashes that were being reflected off the crystal windows of the building. This was her third straight shift and she was starting to feel the fatigue. “Be sharp,” she commanded herself. “Inspector Connor won’t tolerate sloppiness.” Her supervisor had assigned her a third shift knowing how tired she was. Danielle suspected that her supervisor felt threatened by the quality of her work, so she was assigned shifts where superiors wouldn’t be around to see her. “Looks like she made a mistake tonight,” Danielle thought as she probed the second body.
She was small, standing only five feet five and weighing 125 pounds. She had her blond hair tied into a braid that hung below her shoulders and she wore the customary helmet with faceplate as she examined the four dead bodies. She had to use leverage to move them, but she was capable of handling the weight. “This doesn’t make sense,” she thought again, and began taking
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