I'm back! My Canadian holiday was GOOD! but I've got school tomorrow. I hate school, really I do. Here's the 7th installment in Of science labs and Croatian cathedrals!
Yassen seemed to be frozen, staring at the man in the ice block. "Yassen," said Alexandra, "what is it?"
Yassen chewed his lip. "Get him out of the ice,"
"What?"
"Do it now. Open the other cases as well."
Alex exchanged a puzzled look with Alexandra and started scraping away the ice, while K unit and Ben shifted the lids on the other cases, revealing more ice-clotted bodies: a woman and two men. On the last, when Ben saw the body, he first wiped away the frost on the surface of the block to get a better look at the man's face. When he was sure he wasn't mistaken, his eyes widened and he muttered, "Oh God… Alex?"
"Yeah?"
"Get over here."
Briefly abandoning his task, Alex went over to Ben. The first thing he registered was the clock. This person had been frozen for four months. At first he didn't recognize the face, but as he focused on the dark skin and hair…
"It's him, Alex," said Ben with uncharacteristic grimness. "It's the man I shot on Dragon Nine."
Ash.
Zeljan Kurst was watching the moon. Not a favorite pastime, but now it was critical to the operation – the biggest since Invisible Sword – that they got their position right. Dr. Three was making final calculations and Brendan Chase was sitting in a corner, staring into space. "Dr. Three," Kurst said, removing his eye from the telescope. "The moon is almost in position. Five more hours should do it."
"Good. Very good."
Kurst felt a rush of excitement but suppressed it. Getting excited wouldn't do anyone any good.
"And after Croatia is dealt with, we can move on to the other countries of the world. China first – the government is crashing worse than here – and we can move on to Australia, England, etcetera."
"Scorpia will, quite literally, take over the world."
Short, crappy ending, etc. but I'm jet lagged, cut me some slack. I'll try to get chapter 8 up tomorrow or day after. Can u guess who the first guy they uncovered was? Can u?
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