The Trilisk Revolution (Parker Interstellar Travels) Read Online Free PDF

thousand kilometers of our position.”
    “Raigel,
figure out how to detect them. Send the package over to Daimyo for analysis,”
Sager ordered, trading glum looks with Captain Narron.
     

     
    Chapter 5
     
    Caden
had just finished a hard workout with a training android. He sat breathing deeply
on a Jiu Jitsu mat, feeling the new abrasions and bruises scattered over his
body. He would never trade in all his real workouts for virtual ones. Even
though he could only try out the most dangerous things in the VRs, he was
training for real action now. Besides, the endorphin rush was priceless. There
were pills for that, but what good would they be when he was fighting for his
life on some alien planet?
    “Caden,”
Telisa sent him.
    “Here,”
he said.
    “Important
meeting. We have something new cooking,” Telisa said. She was all business. She
had not cracked a smile since losing Magnus.
    “On
my way,” he said. Caden hopped into a shower tube for ten seconds to clean up,
then tossed on a change of clothes. Being in a hurry, he headed out with a
shock of wet hair, wearing only a pair of loose trousers and a short sleeve
shirt. The shirt did not change colors like a colorweave, but neither would it
fall apart if he had to dive and roll or climb down a cliff.
    Siobhan
intercepted him on the way to the meeting. Her eyes flickered down, taking in
his mussed appearance.
    She’s
checking me out!
    He
smiled at her.
    “Hi,”
she said. She smiled at him for one second, then looked away.
    “Hey.
Do you know what’s up?”
    “Nope.
Just been training,” Siobhan said.
    Caden
nodded. Siobhan acted a bit odd sometimes. She often smiled and chatted, but
then she seemed to want to bug out quickly.
    She’s
from a different place with different customs , he reminded himself. Still, he had the most in common with
Siobhan. He remembered all the fun they had had jumping around in the Blackvine
habitat. Caden and Siobhan were the youngest, and like Telisa, they were
adventurous.
    “We
could go jump around a sim of that habitat after the meeting,” Caden said
suddenly. “You know—the Blackvine houses in the sky.”
    “What!
Oh! Yes, that would be cool,” Siobhan said.
    “Okay
then, it’s a date.”
    Siobhan’s
eyes bulged.
    Oh.
She’s freaked out because I said ‘date’.
    “Not
a date date I mean. Oh, we don’t have to if you don’t wanna,” Caden
said.
    “I
want to,” she said quickly.
    They
walked into big room on the Clacker for the FTF. Caden saw both of the
Cilreths, Maxsym, and Imanol.
    “Wunderkind
and Fast’n’Frightening,” Imanol said. “Nice of you to drop by. You guys having
a little FTF of your own? Or maybe I should say BTB?”
    Body
to body. As in, incarnate.
    Caden
let the remark slide right off. Telisa and Cilreth would see he may be younger
than Imanol, but he acted more professionally day in and day out. Siobhan
decided to strike back.
    “You
could have had some incarnate time with me too, Imanol,” Siobhan said sweetly.
“Oh that’s right. You’re afraid of me.”
    “No,
that was GI Jane.”
    The
remark caught Caden off guard. Leave it to Imanol to mention Arakaki. Caden
knew if she had been at the meeting, she would ignore it. So Caden did too.
    Okay,
I officially hate this jerk. He doesn’t know where to draw the line.
    “As
you may be aware,” Telisa started in, “We’re going to stop the Trilisks that
rule Earth. I have a group preparing to take over after we’re done. We just go
in and find the Trilisks. We’ll take them out with minimum engagement with the
Space Force.”
    Caden’s
eyebrows lifted. Imanol looked equally surprised, though Maxsym and Siobhan
remained placid.
    A
new channel opened with a data stream describing a space habitat. Caden looked
it over in his PV. Skyhold. He had heard of it. It was supposed to be a really
important space habitat.
    “We’ve
discovered that Skyhold is home to over eighty percent of our targets,” Telisa
said. She let that sink in