Freelancers, Chapter Eight
"Beautiful," Lia said softly, standing out the window in Huerta Memorial's waiting area. The window overlooked a large park and wide-open artificial sky. It was easy to forget she was on a nearly forty-five kilometer long space station rather than a...
Freelancers, Chapter Six
"Cover me!" Lia rushed over to the nearest shuttle, firing up her Omni-Tool and hacking away at the lock. Her heads-up display showed a half-dozen blips representing the mercs who'd had their helmets on before the hangar decompressed, but she ignored...
Freelancers, Chapter Seven
"It's tumbling," Chula muttered as her fingers nudged the controls, moving the _Sulaco_ as close to the geth ship's central airlock as she dared. "Matching rotation." Lia sat, silent and unmoving, letting Chula concentrate on her docking maneuvers...
Elsewhere, Chapter 2: Future Shock
"Okay, here goes nothing." Kamala pushed one last button and held her breath for a few seconds. The lights in the engineering command section faded on gradually, some of them flickering before steadying, and the control panels and...
Freelancers, Chapter Four
"Authoritatively: Hand over your weapons." The elcor at the end of the long table stared at Scarface and waited for him to put his rifle and pistol down. Scarface complied and, with a sneer, forked over a half-dozen knives. An asari with a...
Downtime
"Well, here we are." Jack closed the rusty, corrugated metal gate and stared at the equally rusty warehouse a dozen yards away. "Until someone finds it and shoots a bunch of holes through the walls, at least." "You've got such a knack for finding that...
Freelancers, Chapter Three
"You sure you're feeling up to this, Lia?" "Yeah. Getting a full night's sleep made a huge difference." Lia joined Chula, Quint, Dakka, and Yutani outside the airlock. "Though I really didn't intend to sleep twelve hours." "Guess those...
Harbinger, Chapter 8
"Ah, there you are." Arcee's human-size body stood in the doorway and smiled. "Oh, hey, Arcee." Jack took a deep breath, moved his head around to work the cramp out of his neck, and waved his tablet at the crate beside the one he sat on. "I was just...
Freelancers, Chapter Ten
"Guys, I've got good news and bad news," Dakka's voice came over the comms. "The good news is, I've got the Cerberus troops on the run. The bad news is, half of 'em are heading toward the cave and the other half are running back toward the Mako." ...
Chaser: Chapter One
"You've _got_ to be kidding me." All I could do was shake my head as I read Craig Theron's profile on my phone. I'd known he was an idiot ever since I skimmed his file on the chaser website--but reading it more thoroughly, while sitting in my...
Freelancers, Chapter Nine
"Please, have a seat." Takahashi stepped aside so everyone could enter his office. Chula walked past him, stood out of everyone's way, and took a look around. Paintings and objects in locked cases hung on the wood-paneled walls, an enormous desk...
Freelancers, Chapter Eleven
"Any word on Kenn yet?" Lia said softly, and waited for the human behind the counter to answer. The woman arched an eyebrow, looked as if she were trying not to roll her eyes, and tapped a few buttons. She read the text on the screen and looked...