Whisper & Fury: Eydulan Series Book 1 by Mark Brandon Powell Page A

shotgun blaster. It was like a security blanket for him. Kat on the other hand didn’t really need much. Whisper is housed in a great short ranged weapon that she can change at will, her favorite being a row miniature rail-guns. Then Fury is in an oversized pistol with a nanite chamber. Both make their own ammunition too. So there were a lot of sharp objects inside on the walls. A couple of automatic blasters were in drawers toward the back, with a few spare energy clips.
    Gravan is at the workbench fastening a new grip to his favorite seven inch blade. That man has more accessories for that blade than a girl has shoes in her closet.
    Kat says with sad tone, “Hey babe, we’re broke.”
    He doesn’t turn around but answers, “How did that happen?”
    “The registration fees for the Guild and Conglomerate came out. I thought we turned that off?”
    “I did, but you know how governments can be. I must have contacted the wrong department or caught the person answering the call in a bad mood. Who knows.”
    “So about that, I don’t want to wait for a regular job. I want to get all this over with so we can live the quite life with your friends.”
    “I know all about your dream, us on the porch watching the sunset. I really don’t want to call Bob. The last couple of jobs from him were way more work than what he paid.”
    Kat says sweetly, “Please.”
    Gravan turns around knife and screwdriver in hand, still turning the screw. She can see the look on his face, and she doesn’t like it but bats her eyelashes at him anyways. Bob isn’t that bad of a guy, he just works outside of the law. She wasn’t even sure if Bob was his real name, but that is what he has gone by since she’s known him. He always gave them jobs that were not legal, but no one would fault them for doing it. Like delivering water to a frontier planet that the Conglomerate is controlling the water pricing or delivering medicine to a quarantined planet because the Earth Government called it a loss cause.
    She smiles and keeps fluttering her eyelashes. Stretching out the word, “Please.”
    He lets out a huff and shakes his head. “Fine, I’ll call him. I would like to say out loud that I am against us doing this. We need to look for work through someone else other than Bob to get us a legal job.”
    Kat does a little happy dance before she says, “I know, but this is the last time we have to call him. Then we are on a tropical planet looking out over some body of water we’ve built a house in front of.”
    “I just hope he doesn’t throw us into the middle of another war zone.”
    “Lucky for us there isn’t a war going on right now.”
    Kat leaves Gravan to mess around with his knives and to call Bob. There is something about him that creeps her out when Bob looks at her. She isn’t quite sure if its the way he looks at everyone or just her. Sure she thinks he isn’t a bad guy, but he does give off a heavy creeper vibe and would not want to be stuck in a room alone with him. It would take Gravan about an hour to contact Bob and find a suitable job, which left her with some free time. Free time means game time.
    Walking back into her quarters she lays down on the bed, and sets up a nest of pillows and blankets. Whisper had been downloading things across the interstellar-net and had found a few virtual reality games that were meant for large rooms and full VR gear. Whisper was able to let Kat play them just using her interface. Gaming was something Kat had been getting more and more into. There was a lot of free time between ports. Gravan was spending more and more time in the armory, so there wasn’t much else for her to do. She could read all those romance novels that Whisper downloads, but she already knows them all.
    Kat says laying down in her pile of fluffiness, “Hey Whisper, can you load up that game we were playing yesterday.”
    “Yes I can load that for you, but don’t you think there are better things to spend your time on.