Varna The Grojan War Book TwoChapter 12 Desperate Measures
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The carriage rattled along the cobbled street, the leather and wood suspension barely isolating Minara from the uneven surface, the early morning light only just illuminating the still deserted city streets. It would be another hour before the traders would be opening their shops and the market holders advertising their wares, each adding to the noise and bustle common in cities everywhere. She yawned, and her mind wondered to the previous night, and she smiled to herself as warmth suffused her body. The payment for his help with freeing Varna and her crew had resulted in a night to remember. She vowed to herself that wherever they lived there would be a daybed somewhere in the house.
Grojan would normally only mate three or four times a year once they had bonded, but they had exceeded that in one night. With her conservative Grojan upbringing, Arron's imagination and wicked tongue had been a revelation. Ancestors! Her heart felt as if it would burst, with the feelings she had for him. She was sorely tempted to just turn the carriage around when it occurred to her that there was no reason to limit their love making to just the bed and daybed. She trembled at the thought and his office desk popped into her head. If she walked in with only his cloak wrapped round her, lent against his desk and let the cloak slip a little... "Minara, I'm shocked at you!" she said to herself.
She smiled, remembering a conversation long ago with the then princess. The Princess had been trying to persuade her to wear a revealing ball gown rather than her usual leather armor. And had told her there were more subtle ways to persuade people to do things for her rather than at the point of a knife. She had reluctantly agreed and had landed herself the handsome Halcyon General. Now she knew exactly how to control him and get him to do what she wanted without resorting to violence.
The carriage came to a halt, putting a sudden end to her wayward thoughts. She sighed as the carriage door was opened. Tonight Arron! She thought and smiled to herself as the footman placed the steps for her to alight from the carriage. She adjusted her sword on her back. As she was to all intents and purposes on prison escort duty she had worn her leather armor and weapons. She had forgotten how comfortable it was. It felt so much better than the dresses and petticoats she was expected to wear in her role as the wife of an important royal official. As she had requested, the carriage had been drawn up close to the rear entrance of the city barracks. The parade square was deserted so Minara slipped into the building unseen.
The captain of the watch was waiting for her. He bowed, and looked a little uncomfortable eying her armor and weapons. "M'lady Arron, you are hard on the heels of General Arron's messenger, the prisoner is not yet ready."
"Captain, that is not a problem, the important thing is to be discreet. I will be back in four days, at the same time to collect another of the three prisoners."
"Yes, m'lady, they will be ready for you."
"Thank you, Captain."
"Would you like to wait in my office?"
"No, I'm fine here thank you, Captain,"
He bowed. "I will go and hurry things up."
Minara nodded. "Yes please." And he turned down the corridor. Less than five minutes later a female prisoner was led down the corridor, her head covered by a sack so she could not see or be seen. "Please, where are you taking me?" Her question ended with a sob. "We aren't being executed are we? Please, it was all Sisanna's fault. Please." She tugged against the chain binding her wrists, causing the guard to push her forward. Minara bit her tongue and remained silent as she stepped aside, allowing the guards to escort the prisoner to her carriage. They forced her roughly up the step into the carriage. "Oh please, I didn't do anything, truly, please." She started to sob louder as they forced her back into the seat.
Minara nodded to the guards, they saluted her and left. With one last glance round Minara climbed into the carriage, closed the door and pulled down the blinds. The carriage lurched forward and Minara leant forward to remove the prisoner's hood. She flinched at Minara's touch. "It's all right, nothing is going to happen to you so pull yourself together."
Theasa blinked and her eyes went wide and looked round in wonder when Minara removed the hood. "I ... I ... thought I was being taken for e ... e ... execution." She stammered and looked at Minara's weapons. "I'm not am I? Being executed I mean?"
"No Theasa, you are not being executed."
The young woman visibly relaxed and Minara bit her cheek to prevent herself from laughing and glared at her. "You have been released into my custody because I believe you can be trusted to abide by the law and cause no further problems. Can you be trusted Theasa?"
Theasa sniffed and wiped her eyes with the heel of her hands. "Y ... Yes, Minara." She took a shuddering breath. "I never wanted any of this to happen. My parents had arranged for me to be mated with a wonderful boy from a good family, and it all went wrong, and I don't even know why." She sniffed again and Minara feared she was about to burst into tears again so she smiled at her, leant forward and put a hand on her knee.
"Theasa, look at me." She raised her red rimmed eyes and Minara patted her knee then sat back. "I was in the same position as you once, cast out and not understanding what happened to me. In my case I was sent to fight humans and I did not have time to dwell on what happened to me. But it all worked out for the best, now I am mated to someone I love to the core of my being and I have a son. There is nothing to prevent the same thing happening to you, now is there?"
"No I suppose not." Theasa smiled weakly.
"We need to get the ship repaired so we can get off this planet and start to put things right. You already know the Empire is corrupt and crumbling and you also know why the war with the humans was started?"
"Yes, it was all on the database from the ship where we found the cryochamber, where we found Grojan and humans working together."
"Do you want to help me ... help us change everything, Theasa?"
"Oh yes, and find my own human as well?"
Minara laughed. "Yes, and find your own human. Now, I have it on good authority you are an expert on the core and computers in general?"
"Well I wouldn't say I was an expert, but I do know quite a lot about them, yes."
"Good, I want you to help Mark restore the ship's core."
"But I thought it was destroyed, Minara."
"No, Arron fooled you; he removed the core before detonating the bomb so it only appeared as if the core was destroyed."
"That was clever."
"Yes it was." Minara's cheeks flushed with the memory of the previous night; Arron was clever and skillful at many things.
Theasa sat quietly for a moment, the only sound the creaking of the carriage and the rattle of the iron clad wheels over the cobbled streets. "You said I would be helping Mark. Minara, that sounds like the human's name the one Varna released from the chamber? Did she bond with him?"
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The old man rose. "Now, my dear, there are pressing matters I have to attend to and there is nothing more I can tell you about your artifact." Varna stood and followed him to the door. He put his hand on the door catch then hesitated and turned towards her. "Are you certain you do not want to sell it to me, I can pay a great deal of money for it?" She frowned for a moment - it did take up space in the hold and while most of her crew accepted her eccentric attachment to it Sisanna would...
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"Well it would seem we are officially classed as pirates." Four young women sat round a table in a dark corner of a seedy bar located in a rundown city on a lawless rim planet. Theasa looked round the table at her comrades and captain. "I hacked into the planetary security network and we are on the list, a bounty on our heads." She shook her head. "It's not fair we are lumped together with that murdering bitch Sisanna." A tear trailed down her cheek. "I only just failed the mating...
The ship smelt damp and musty with a hint of oil and stale alien sweat thrown in for good measure. Mark thumped the main console as the nav screen flickered out for the umteenth time. The jump engines were charging, and as the small three berth scout ship drifted in interstellar space it creaked and groaned like an old fashioned wooden sailing ship. Most of their money had been spent on a decent ship for Arron and Minara. They had left the station several days ago to search for their young...
The inner airlock refused to close. Mark had removed it from its track and dismantled it three times now and it was seriously pissing him off. He had used the door from Varna's cabin to repair the blast damaged airlock. He had ripped the closing mechanism from the cabin wall to escape and it was not worth repairing, especially as the ship needed an airlock to go into space. Cabin doors were a low priority. Mark swung a booted foot at the door and hit it hard in frustration. It groaned and...
The evening was cold and Varna stood on the palace battlements watching the market close and the stall holders pack up. She shivered and pulled her cloak round her. She heard footsteps and looked round; Petara was making her way along the walkway towards her. Varna turned back to watch the activity in the square below. Petara stopped next to her and they stood together in silence for a while. "I saw Minara walking around the market this morning," Petara broke the silence. "Yes, I think...
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Catana leant forward and pointed at the star map floating in the center of the control room. "I was told a few human ships were spotted there." Varna walked around the map and tapped the tips of her fingers to her lips in thought. She looked across at the rest of the crew. "That's the Scorpious Sector, it is vast and deserted, if there are humans there then they would be difficult to find." She turned back to the map. "There's something about that sector." She spoke almost to...
"God, I hate fucking computers!" Mark slammed his fist against a bulkhead. He had been working for several days now attempting to get the ship's core to boot. He had traced several faults to the ship's consoles, particularly the navigation control Arron had damaged during his campaign against the pirates. To his frustration the core refused to co-operate with his efforts, a blank screen just stared back at him like a large holographic sightless eye. The Grojan ship's core was a type he...
"Well, ladies, that proved easier than I thought." The man smiled and glanced at Nora's deecrets. Varna could see out of the corner of her eye the female had sat down next to her. She had known them long enough to realize that the way the deecret was swishing her tail, the end moving from side to side in short flicking movements, that she was not happy. Varna chose her target as Nora spoke. "And you are?" "Oh, a distant cousin, my dear, Motasa Rmaxis at your service." He bowed his...
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With Minara safely out of the way he could move to the second part of the plan. The Grojan would be gathered in one place tonight so it was time to visit the City Guard and make his presence known. First he changed into his traveling leathers, then he made for a local stream and removed the hair dye he had smothered into his hair. Once it was all removed he walked back to the city. As he reached the outskirts people started to notice him and a crowd started to build behind him. He heard the...
The queue for drinks at the bar melted away as soon as Minara bared her teeth. Filed teeth marked her out as a failure, but she had learnt that generally, people both male and female, regarded her and others like her with fear. For some it was justified, and the woman she had come to meet had a reputation as a ruthless bounty hunter and pirate. Some of the things she was reported to have done were justified, some, Minara suspected, were meant to enhance her fearsome reputation. Minara...
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Minara made her way to a small Inn in the center of the village and she pushed open the door and walked to the bar. Conversation stopped and everyone turned and looked at her, and she noted there were no female customers. The inn keeper looked her up and down, raised his eyebrows, but did not comment; she half expected him to say it was for men only and women were not welcome when she noticed a barmaid standing with a tray of drinks between two tables against a far wall. "Where is this?"...
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The ship shuddered, waking Arron, and he stretched and yawned. The ship was no longer rocking so he pulled on his boots and, bending low so as not to strike his head, he made his way above decks and found the ship had docked and lines were being tied. The First Mate spied him. "Good morning, sir, we have arrived, the winds were favorable and we made fast passage. We should have the gang plank out shortly." Arron nodded his thanks and stood back while the crew completed the docking...
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Introductions were made and most everyone was seated. They were short one chair. Pappy elected to lean against the wall rather than get an extra chair from his or BB's apartments in the barn. He wanted to know what was going on and wouldn't take a chance of missing something. Though he loved Sean, he still wasn't completely comfortable with this Wizard business and controlling the animals. Sean was sitting in a highchair beside Seth. Martha's motherly manner settled everyone and even...