{"product_id":"beneath-the-storm","title":"Beneath the Storm","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003eA mercenary who buried her real name thirty years ago.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFated Stars Book 2\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003eBrellen Storm takes contracts. She doesn't ask questions, she doesn't make attachments, and she has spent thirty years being very, very good at staying out of other people's wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003eThen the war finds her anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003eOne job — simple extraction, clean money, no complications — drops her into the middle of a government crackdown, a rebellion that's been building for a century, and a senator named Khol Tavish who is quietly trying to bring down a Chancellor from the inside. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003eShe doesn't need his politics. She doesn't need his history. She definitely doesn't need the way his voice has been doing something to her memory since the moment they met.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003eShe just needed the contract to be simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 3.0pt 0in 3.0pt 0in;\"\u003eIt wasn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eseries order\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFated Stars\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBelow the Current\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeneath the Storm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeyond the Black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eexcerpt\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eHadyn knocked at the ninth hour exactly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eBrellen Storm had the implants back in, the arm covered by her sleeve, the assembled quality of Brellen Storm present and professional. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eHadyn was carrying two cups of caffe. He had always found the good caffe place in whatever city they were in within approximately four hours of arrival. So, no matter what the events of the job gave, there was always good.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eScratch that, \u003ci\u003esuperb\u003c\/i\u003e, caffe at the ready. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"The client sent an update,\" he said, handing her a cup without asking if she wanted it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eThe fact that she already had her hand out to accept was inconsequential. \"What kind of update?\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"The kind that means the debrief has become a briefing.\" He came in and sat in the chair by the window, which was his chair in whatever room they were in — he had a relationship with windows, a preference for having the exterior in his sightline. \"They have another job.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"Already.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"Already. It's connected to the last one — the chip we retrieved had information that opened a new thread. They want to follow it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eShe drank her caffe. It was good. The soothing flavor that she needed today. Last night, she had not slept well. She didn’t mention the exhaustion. She didn’t have to. He knew. Neither of them was getting any younger. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eStill, there were jobs to do. \"What kind of thread?\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"A person,\" he said. \"Being held. Someone the Chancellor's people took approximately three weeks ago. The chip had the location.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"An extraction.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"Yes.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eShe was quiet for a moment. Extractions were different from document retrieval. More variables, more exposure, more that could go wrong in ways that document retrieval did not go wrong. She and Hadyn were capable of extractions — had done them before, would do them again — but they required more preparation and more resources than she had available.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"Who's the client?\" she asked.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"The network contact is the same,\" Hadyn said. \"But this one has a new principal. Someone with political cover, apparently. The kind that could be useful if something goes sideways.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eShe raised her eyebrow. \"Political cover.\" That could mean a lot of things, here on Alcor. The whole planet was a place filled with politics. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eShe shouldn’t have been surprised, but she was. Of course, she also thought they would be leaving today, too. Off to another world. Maybe even get out of the Alpha Prime system all together. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eWouldn’t that be nice? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e“Who is it?” she asked, sipping on her caffe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"A senator,\" he said. \"Someone who's been building a case against the Chancellor for years. He has resources we don't. We have capabilities he doesn't.\" Hadyn looked at her with the expression he used when he had already assessed a situation and was waiting for her to catch up. \"Our contact thinks the combination is worth the complication.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eDo they now, Storm thought to herself. \"What's the scientist's name?\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eHe looked at his notes. \"Mekkans,\" he said. \"Davan Mekkans.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eShe set down her caffe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eThe name was thirty years old, and she had not said it aloud in all of them, but it had never left. It sat in her the way the vision sat in her — not forgotten, not examined, simply present. The weight of something she had learned to carry by not looking at it directly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\"All right,\" she said. Her voice came out even, which was what she needed it to do. \"Set up the meeting.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eHadyn looked at her for a moment before he reached for his comm unit. She did not look back. 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