The Alien Infiltrator by Eryn Ivers EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Author: Eryn Ivers
- Language: English
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“THE SMOKE-SMELL IS NEVER GOING to come out of this room.”
Leon Hess rolled out his map of Southern Tava onto the huge, sturdy
table in the center of the room. “Open a window, then.”
“Yeah, obviously, but that’s not going to be enough.” Joan picked her
way through busted furniture and chunks of plaster and threw open all the
windows she could reach—even the broken ones.
Leon ignored her and grabbed a few things to weigh down the curling
edges of his map: half a chair leg, a couple hunks of rock, the used canister of
a smoke grenade. Once the map was spread out beneath him, he surveyed it
with his hands braced on the table. He pulled a red pencil from his pocket and
tapped it a few times on the wooden surface. He took a deep breath,
swallowed, stood up straight, pulled his shoulders back, and then tapped it a
few more times on his palm.
“Did you cross it off yet?” Garrett strode into the room, and his exuberant
voice with his still-there rural accent bounced off the bullet-pock-marked
walls. He had a cut over his forehead that had been bandaged but needed to
be redressed.
Leon shook his head. “Not yet. I was just about to.”
“It’s just a mark on a paper, Garrett.” Joan tsked but still came to watch
as Leon again leaned over the old map—marked up with various colors of
lines, Xs, circles, and words—and poised his pencil over the dot labeled
Ralscoln.
Then Leon slowly and deliberately circled the city and wrote: Retaken.
Garrett let out a whoop, and even Leon allowed himself a small, tense
smile. He stared at the words for a second, letting them sink in.
Joan put her hand on his shoulder. “We did it.”
Leon showed her a slightly less tense smile and nodded. “For now.”
Garrett clapped his hand down on Leon’s other shoulder and stared at the
map with a grin. “Finally! Well, this was fun. I gotta go see about the
barricade.”
“Garrett,” Leon called to him before he left. “See who of the soldiers are
ready to move to the front. We can only give them another day of rest. This is
just getting started.”
That sobered even Garrett. The younger man nodded crisply and
disappeared out the ruined doorway.
Joan sighed and moved around to the other side of the table. They both
trailed their eyes up to the northern edge of the map, and eventually, Leon
pointed to the numerous small circles in green ink dotted throughout the
continent.
“What’s the status of all the orbital and atmospheric guns?”
“We managed to take maybe eighty percent of them?” Joan pulled a pen
from her pocket and started making small marks next to some of the circles.
“So we don’t exactly have air superiority, but we can definitely blast any
Klah’Eel ships out of the sky that get within Southern Tava air or orbit
space.”
Leon raised his brows and nodded. “That’s better than I expected.”
“Yeah, I was pretty proud of us, actually.”
“And what about all the other cities?”
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