Spacer Clans Adventure 1: Naero's Run Read Online Free PDF Page A

“It’s okay to sit down.”
    “ Guys, just eat your food. Seriously. I didn’t do anything. I’m not going to do anything. You’re my mates.”
    “ Yeah, you’d like us to think that, wouldn’t you?” Chaela said. “Then we let our guard down, and wham!” She hit the table so hard that their trays jumped, as did some other Spacers nearby.
    “ That’s when you strike. You’re just waiting to pounce on us all. So go ahead. What are you waiting for? We know you wanna play some clever trick on us. Just get it over with already.”
    “ Saemar, look me in the eye. Tell them how dumb this is. They’re getting all paranoid for nothing.”
    Saemar stopped waving and flirting and winking at the entire male half of the crew and looked into her eyes.
    “You’re absolutely right, sweetie. I do know you.” Then she looked at their trays.
    “ Oh my gosh, I figured it out. She’s done something to our food. Nobody eat anything! I bet the servers are in on it.”
    Everyone stared and gaped and dropped their spoons and forks in midbite as if on cue.
    “ I bet it’s laxatives,” Saemar said. “That’s what I’d do. By tonight we’ll all be shitting ourselves inside out like Lorlduvian sky whales. Don’t eat nuthin’.”
    “ Okay, okay,” Zhen said. “Everyone just glacier. If Saemar will shut up for five seconds I can scan everyone’s food.”
    Tyber looked over at her. Naero just grinned innocently.
    “She’s smiling at us,” Tyber said. “Oh, hell. Why is she smiling at us like that?”
    “ I’m just so happy to be with all my good friends.”
    “ Dammit. Saemar’s right. I already ate some. I feel it going through me already. I’m going to die. I’m going to detonate like a shit bomb. Damn you, Naero.”
    Naero held up her hands. “You’re not going to shit yourself, Tyber. I didn’t do anything.”
    Zhen turned off her med scanner. “Relax, Ty. She’s right. No poisons.” She glared at Saemar and shook her head emphatically.
    “ No sooper laxatives. Everyone go ahead and eat. Just another false alarm.”
    A wkward silence passed for a minute.
    Saemar blurted out. “Well, it’s a good thing. You don’t want to mess with those extra-strength laxatives, ya know. I know a guy who took some, cause–you know–he was all plugged up inside. Well, he takes too much. Next thing thing ya know, bawoom . He’s crapping his teeth out his ass. The guy had to get new teeth, I swear. True story. It liked ta killed him.”
    “No way,” Tyber said. “No one can shit their teeth out. It’s impossible.”
    Gallan threw his fork down again and pushed his tray away in complete disgust. “I don’t think I can eat anymore.”
    “ The question remains,” Zhen said, licking her spoon and then waving it at Naero. “What is she going to do, and how and when is she going to do it to us all?”
    “ You guys are being silly,” Naero told them.
    “ We’ll never see it coming,” Chaela said. “She’s probably already set it up and is just waiting for it to blow up in our faces. That’s the way she usually does it.”
    Tyber pointed a finger right at her. “You know, one of these days, Naero, someone’s going to pull one over on you. A real work of art. And all of us are going to be right here to see you go down in flames.”
    “ Hey, here’s a disturbing thought,” Gallan said. “I know her better than any of you. What if this time her master plan is to do nothing?”
    “ Nothing?” Zhen said. “That’s not her style. She’s going to do something, you can bet on that.”
    “ Right,” Tyber added.
    “ Think about it, ”Gallan said. “All she has to do is sit and look innocent while the rest of us squirm and flip out and get all paranoid, watching and waiting and fretting about something that could happen at any moment. She can drive us all crazy for free. That way, we keep doing it all to ourselves.”
    “ Nahhh…” Saemar said. “She’s got something planned, all right. Just look