Chapter 14
“But it was an accident!” I whined and slowed my pace, thinking I would receive justice.
No.4 sniggered, still pulling me along, “Yes of course it was and ‘oh dear, how sad, wot a shame!’ “He laughed again, “But the Triple A’s will want to blame you!”
“But why?”
“They’ll do anything to avoid being sent to Alien Artefact Assessment Centre No 1 on Io. That’s Jupiter’s' second largest moon, where they experiment with the really nasty alien stuff! You’ll be summarily destroyed along with all of the recorded data of what just happened.”
I then considered my options for a millisecond, “Let’s continue running.”
We ran up the down-ramp at maximum RoboSpeed and even passed some dishevelled human survivors struggling with the incline and the thick dust, some still screaming about ‘T
