Tempus Regit by Edmund Hughes

Author:Edmund Hughes [Hughes, Edmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-27T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

Archer was thinking the entire walk back into the inner city. What little he’d heard from Emily on the realist philosophy made sense, but he’d already gotten a taste of how the game of politics was played from Ada, the Overseer, and his interview.

I haven’t committed to anything, yet. I’m still figuring all of this out.

“You’ve been awfully quiet,” said Leigh, as they entered the Prime Complex. Archer looked over at her and couldn’t stop himself from smiling a little. She looked radiant, and more than that, there was tenderness and concern for him in her eyes.

“Just thinking about all of this,” he said. “It’s a lot to take in.”

“You already knew most of it, didn’t you?” asked Leigh. “The government is corrupt. We don’t have a perfect system.”

They stepped into the elevator, and Archer frowned.

“The part about the promised land,” said Archer. “I just… I don’t know. It’s hard to know what to think about that.”

The elevator started rising toward the seventh floor.

“It’s almost as though we live on a different planet now,” said Leigh. “Or at least, we have since the first purge, and the beginning of the stagnation. I think there might be something to it. We have to explore the world all over again, Archer.”

“I mean, who says that the Overseer isn’t already trying to?” he asked.

Leigh frowned at him slightly.

“The only people who could conceivably do it are the members of the Metal Squad,” she said. “And right now, you’re all either protecting Tempus or the trade routes between here and Syprus. There’s no political will to commit the Metal Squad to exploration.”

The elevator doors open. Archer was about to agree with Leigh when he had a sudden thought.

They never explained to me what Trevor was doing when he was killed. Or why he died in such a way that it left his armor skin perfectly intact.

Leigh immediately started on dinner as soon as they were back in his apartment. Archer turned on his TV, still a little taken aback by the fact that he owned such a thing. He watched a rerun of one of a weekly drama called “Anomaly” that starred a ridiculously attractive blonde woman who investigated supernatural incidents at night in the citizen’s district.

He was just beginning to get comfortable when someone knocked on his door. Archer got up and answered it. One of the most attractive women he’d ever seen was standing on the other side, and it took him the better part of five seconds to recognize that it was Captain Ada, done up for a night out on the town.

“Archer,” she said. “You’re coming out with me tonight.”

“Uh…” Archer was still in a state of shock, reeling from the sight of her. Ada wore a tight red dress, cut low in front to demonstrate that even with her lean figure, she could catch attention with her cleavage. Her hair was woven into a long, singular braid, and she had on a silver choker with a red stone that hung tight against her neck.

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