Elsewhere, Chapter 11: One Wrong Move
"What the hell is _that_?" Asuka glanced to the left to find whoever had just spoken. Her gaze landed on several guys who looked like extras in a western vid--but after everything she'd seen, it was probably safe to assume they really _had_come from...
Freelancers, Chapter Nineteen
"Excuse me! Do you have a moment?" Dakka finished putting her armor on without looking up, assuming the woman had called out to someone else in the marketplace outside C-Sec headquarters. "Excuse me?" The voice was suddenly closer, directly behind...
Harbinger, Chapter 2
"So," Jack said as the team crept through the _Harbinger_'s dark corridors, "what do we call you?" He looked up at the Airachnid clone. He'd noticed over the last few minutes that she'd grown more nervous the deeper into the ship they explored. "I feel...
Elsewhere, Chapter 10: Intercept Course
"Dropping out of hyperspace," Astra said. "Beginning scan." _I hope this is the one._Asuka braced her hands on the central console and stared at the holofield. _Gotta get some shuteye soon._Even though her prosthetic body didn't require rest, her...
Freelancers, Chapter Eighteen
"I've only been doing this for about two years," Trent said. "My parents moved to Illium for a job opportunity when I was little, and they've been working at the Nos Astra spaceport ever since. When I hit my teens, I got into that phase where you want...
Freelancers, Chapter Seventeen
"Here's what Elias Kelham told me about the Cerberus base on Chasca," Valeria said once everyone sat at the corner table in the mess hall. "There's a team of twenty-eight scientists working on various research projects--'research' meaning simply...
Arena, Chapter 2
"Well, that's not what I expected." Dylan turned around slowly and took in their surroundings. He and the alien females stood in the middle of a street with a set of vehicles in front of them. Wheeled vehicles, but none of them familiar to him. They...
Freelancers, Chapter 20
"Hah! This looks intriguing!" Dakka popped another crab puff into her mouth and held her menu tablet out to Emily. "Zaeed's Goddamn Good Chocolate Chip Cookies. Think I'll get a batch to-go." She laughed and added them to her order. "They're pretty...
Project: Phoenix (Neon City, Book 3), Chapter Nine
"Marvelous." Ramirez sighed and slipped her phone back into her pocket. "Just got another text from Hoshi. Jack and the girls have run into trouble. Looks like we'll have to wait a while longer." "How bad is it?" Hiro turned around slowly, sweeping...
Project: Phoenix (Neon City, Book 3), Chapter 12
"Where are we going?" Otto muttered. Jack glanced over his shoulder at Otto and Shakira as they lay on the floor of the rear compartment, keeping well away from the windows. "Hope you don't mind, but we figured it might not be a good idea for you to...
Freelancers, Chapter 22
"You know, it just now hit me," Dr. T'Lura said as they waited for the airlock's decontamination cycle to finish. "We're actually going to meet Commander Shepard and his team. The ones who saved the Citadel from Sovereign _and_ stopped the Collectors...
Arena, Chapter 5
"Okay. So far, so good." Dylan turned slowly, taking in their new surroundings, and let out a slow breath when no new instructions popped into his mind. He and the females had found themselves standing on the corner of a street in another alien city....