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Chap. 405 The Signal “Come take a look at the ‘building’, Darnell said. He was in K’ndar’s quarters, ironically, fixing a leaky shower head. “They’ve finally uncovered it?” The man laughed. “Finally. What lucky yobs they are, it’s not a building at all.” “What? What is it?” “It’s a structure. It has metal beams, a…

Chap 404  Two Cheated Women “Now that we’ve figured out who meddled with my roster, with misappropriation of Landing materials, hacking into multiple databases and I’m sure if we dig deep enough, we’ll find even more mischief, what shall we do about Wendall?” Chief Evvelin said. The others were all thinking the same thing. There…

Chap. 403 The Dowser “I remember this commons,” Darnell said, “It’s got to be the biggest one in Landing. Where did you dig?” P’jar looked for the building to get his bearings, and threw an arm out to point. “Waaay over the other end, much nearer to the building than here. Do you want to…

Chap. 402 The Frozen Gear “Who’s that coming?” Danno said. Even at the distance, K’ndar recognized the typical gait of a dragonrider. “It’s my coworker, P’jar. He rides brown Falconth.” When P’jar reached them, he looked at K’ndar in astonishment. Then he scanned the team, in heavily coated ash coveralls, the piles-small ones-of solidified ash,…

Chap. 401 Building the nest “The thing that perplexes me,” Evvelin said, “Is how I missed it all these years. I admit that sometimes this computer stuff befuddles me, but I should have seen that someone had changed my rosters and duty assignments.” Christa scrolled through her data. “I’m sorry, ma’am, but, I don’t even…

Chap. 400 Get the Spoon “Only because I’ve done my tai chi and had my morning klah do I not behead you, Raylan.” Raylan sighed in relief. Evvelin did not like people bursting into her office shouting. But this is too much, he’d thought. She’d sat down at Jansen’s terminal, astounded at the change. “You…

Chap. 399 Part 1 The Switch Maintenance Division Chief Orlon: Scheduled tasking change. Incognito shutdown is in force as of 0500 this morning. Defer location and repair of water line leakage. You are directed to open building #1632 Galileo immediately. This order takes precedent over all other scheduled maintenance procedures. Not again! Orlon almost shouted.…

Chap. 398 Incognito The Division Chiefs at Landing didn’t normally call for a Landing wide meeting with the Council of Six. It was always the other way around-the Council met with Lord Holders, Weyrleaders and Craft Hall Masters, and allowed Administration and the various division chiefs to deal with smaller tasks. Of course, anyone on…

Chap. 397 The Metal Artifact A deep voice came from the Serengeti. “K’ndar! Ahoy, there, mate! Port, let those two landlubbers onto the wharf!  Come here, K’ndar, and see what we’ve dredged up for you this time!” Captain Disko called, waving from his forecastle. They walked out onto the solid basalt dock, for which K’ndar…

Chap. 396 Back in the Saddle K’ndar had just finished correlating his data when his datalink called. “K’ndar here, who calls?” For a moment, all he heard were odd sounds in a background of wind. Then, “K’ndar! It’s Harve, of Serengeti. We had something come up in our nets and Cap’n Disko wants someone from…