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Colonel Kincaid 2
by Seven
Disclaimer:
Earth: Final Conflict and its characters are
copyrighted by Tribune Entertainment Company. All rights reserved.
Note from Author: During
"Message in a Bottle"
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"I can't."
A voice full of emotion. Irritation, passion, worry, a hint of anger and get-out-of-my-life.
Kincaid tapped his fingers together as he watched the screen. His eyes bored deep into the monitor. Cook and... whatever his name was were sitting back to back, obviously furious. Augur was sitting at the table with a pocket calculator--does he have pockets?--smiling fakely and trying to get them to make up.
Well, Kincaid thought wryly. This is a bit of a twist. Even his own people don't know who and what he is. Makes my own curiosity seem downright petty. He flexed his fingers and watched as the silent hacker continued to type the numbers in.
All right. First questions first. How had Liam managed to avoid or deflect the beams emanating from the probe? No human being could--to Kincaid's knowledge--survive an attack from the probe, and for a brief moment he thought Liam had been killed. But then the man had simply managed to slump upright, gasping out a few sentences.
"It shut itself down."
Riiiiight.
Of course. How stupid did the man think Kincaid was?
An alarm began to blare madly in the background, and footsteps thundered outside the door. Kincaid jumped to his feet and ran out....
