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Continuing the opening from The Long Dark, on the way down to Elysium with her senior negotiating team, Jennifer receives an unwelcome message. The previous post ended with: “The merest whiff of it beyond this circle, and we all spend the rest of our lives in jail.”
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Jennifer pondered while the cabin windows shone with the plasma glow of their hypersonic passage across the sky. A faint tang of burnt flint hung in the air. “Are we to know the nature of this potential discovery?”
“The President chose not to commit that detail in writing.” Galloway sniffed. “Just enough information to convince you of the gravity of this order.”
Jennifer narrowed her eyes at him.
Galloway smirked. “Your job is to make sure the Company will have complete control of this discovery when it finally breaks. The colonists get nothing.”
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I've had a new distraction this week – our order of firewood for the winter arrived, which was a weight off our minds because it's been hard this year to track down a supplier. Now this all needs to be split down to more manageable sizes and stacked ready in the carport.
All the same, I have made progress on the cover art, just not quite as much as I'd planned.
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Does she have enough information to complete the mission? I have a feeling there's more.
Ahh, the "We get all, they get none!" mindset. Somehow, I think she'll find this difficult to swallow. If you're splitting that wood by hand, you'll have arms like Thor!
Oh, heck. Get the President on the phone. I want those details! :D The cover is looking great, Ian! Good luck chopping up all that wood.
Jessica, technically she does, but that's not going to satisfy her :)
Nancy, splitting and shifting the wood is a family effort this year. Even my daughter wielded an axe yesterday instead of going to the gym.
Julie, if only it was as easy as getting on the phone! The problems with haggling at many light-years distance haunts her in later scenes.
Cover is looking really cool.
That's a lot of wood. Something we just don't need here where I live. In fact, we've never even used our fireplace. I'm sure up north you use yours more often.
They get none! Wow!
I love the cover. So cool!
Enjoyed the snippet - somehow I have a feeling it's not going to be so easy. Poor colonists!
Alex, despite being farther north we don't get the cold that most mainland regions get. Usually hovers close to freezing but rarely much below.
Karen, turns out there's a rationale at play beyond nastiness, but that comes out in a later scene.
Veronica, nothing is easy out there!
Whew--that craft is chock full of deceit and double-dealing!
Cover's looking good, Ian. :-)
Enjoy that wood splitting. My husband enjoys cutting and splitting our wood. He always says that it's hard work, but because of that, no one comes around to bother him. ;-)
I suspect it won't be easy to either talk to the president or get the details. That's a lot of wood to chop! the cover's looking good.
You're going to make us wait for the story behind that ominous opening? Grr.
Your pile of firewood brought back fond memories of BC, though farther east in the province, the pile needed to be bigger.
Teresa, I like your husband's way of thinking :)
Elaine, on this distant world, they are effectively cut off from any immediate communications.
Ed, our part of the world is very mild compared to the mainland. I don't want to think about the heap we'd have to deal with farther east.
Galloway sure does seem to enjoy lording it over her. I hope she gets a chance to knock him down a peg.
This is sounding more dodgy by the minute. I agree with E.D. I want her to knock him off his high horse (and since I feel spiteful today) maybe fall in the dung a bit too.
Wood... winter... wow. Already! Well, before you know it it will be here - better prepared than not.
Your cover artwork is impressive - great perspective drawing. The snippet also intrigued me - I sure want to be part of the "haves".
Happy chopping!
Jenny
A tantalizing snippet. Love the cover so far. Know what you'll be doing for the next while.
It feels like there's a word missing after pondered.
Sounds like some big secrets are looming in that plot!
The cover looks great. I wish I had the patience to create them like that.
E.D. she's a nasty piece of work in her own right, so in the end I didn't give her the satisfaction :)
Brittany, she does indeed end up in deep doo-doo.
Jenny, we always stock up early. Leave it too late and it gets very hard to come by.
Denise, this load of wood has been very hard work, but we're nearly there.
Jean, painting was my first love, so this is a natural fit for me.
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