Asteroid
By Viola Grace
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Sebena has spent her time in the Alliance using her accuracy to blow large rocks into tiny rocks suitable for refinement. When she picks up a heat signature she has to pursue it, even if it means doing it on her own time. Finding a life pod is not really a surprise, but having it functioning and its occupant alive is quite the shock.
Issul is the avatar of the planet Zeering and has been lost in the asteroid field for a century. Opening his eyes in the mining vessel, he sees his rescuer and both he and the world within him have a visceral reaction to her.
Viola Grace
Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.
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Asteroid - Viola Grace
Sebena has spent her time in the Alliance using her accuracy to blow large rocks into tiny rocks suitable for refinement. When she picks up a heat signature she has to pursue it, even if it means doing it on her own time. Finding a life pod is not really a surprise, but having it functioning and its occupant alive is quite the shock.
Issul is the avatar of the planet Zeering and has been lost in the asteroid field for a century. Opening his eyes in the mining vessel, he sees his rescuer and both he and the world within him have a visceral reaction to her.
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Asteroid
Copyright © 2012 Viola Grace
ISBN: 978-1-77111-138-6
Cover art by Martine Jardin
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Asteroid
A Terran Times Tale
By
Viola Grace
Chapter One
Mining was a dirty job and being a mining gunner was far beyond what most of her co-workers were willing to do for the paycheque. Sebena Hadros had thrown herself into life as a gunner with gusto and she enjoyed every minute of it.
All staff to stations. The ship is in motion.
The disembodied voice rippled over her and Sebena walked down the hall with a relaxed stride, pinning her hair into place as she went.
The mining ship, Sheppan, was her home and her place of business all in one. She manned one of the guns that both guarded the ship and created the small bits of floating rock from the asteroid field that they flew through to gather the minerals. Blasting rock into bits had never been a career choice offered to her in high school, so hooray for the Alliance and the Volunteer recruitment centre.
She slipped into her gun and put her headset on. Gunner Hadros reporting at station.
Control answered. Acknowledged, Gunner. We are looking for the following minerals today. Scan and target.
Sebena watched the data roll over her screen and she programmed the info into her scanners. With her assignment given, she started to scan the asteroids for her targets.
She spent her day blowing rocks to pieces and listening to music from home. It wasn’t officially sanctioned, but she was allowed to blast tunes inside her gun turret as long as she didn’t miss her targets.
Once she shattered a rock, she filed a notice to Control and they sent collectors out to capture the minerals. It was almost boring for her by the time she was on her final scan pass of the day.
A blip that shouldn’t have been there caught her attention. What the hell?
She swung her scanner back and watched the image on the screen. There was no doubt she was seeing a heat signature in the asteroid field.
Control.
Yes, Gunner Hadros?
I am getting a heat signature in the asteroid field.
You are probably reading one of our collectors.
No, it is deeper in the field. I am sending you the coordinates.
Sebena waited for a response.
I cannot read anything in the area you selected. It must have been a sensor blip.
Sebena had been staring into the field all day. She knew the ebb and flow of the rocks. If Control couldn’t read it, they wouldn’t pursue it but her shift was over and she could.
Acknowledged, Control. Gunner Hadros leaving station.
Acknowledged, Gunner.
With a sigh, she removed her headgear and left her station. There was something or someone out there and she was determined to find it.
Sebena walked the halls, clasped hands with a few of the other gunners going off shift.
Nilia walked with her for a way. Do you want to hit the gym?
No. I am going to take a zipper out to see something that caught my attention. Wanna come?
She smiled at the other woman’s look of horror.
Why would you want to go out there when we spend all day staring into those lifeless rocks?
Because something caught my attention.
"Good luck