Chapter 5: Cyclad Arik
Lunch break had seldom been so welcome. Every move Jade made seemed to hurt. Her truncated morning workout had only accented her fatigue, rather than relieving it as it usually did. She often had days more physically exhausting than yesterday, but few with as much emotional baggage thrown in.
It could be four or five days before she learned more about this Megan Cafferty, and until then life was as interesting as the old curse would have it. The tension had drawn her nerves as tight as an old E string on a hard-played guitar. On this edge, once again, she lived and functioned.
During her otherwise routine briefing at the beginning of shift, Disson surprised her by mentioning that the Furgato Exec had arrived just before shift change and asked to see her, and then
