"Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The Room of Lost Souls" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rusch Kristine Kathryn)

Riya.

My father.

My mother.
 Those voices.

No preconceptions, thatтАЩs my motto. And I need to wait until mine are
under control before I face the team all over again.

****

By the time I come out, the station is mapped. It is definitely larger
than our research told us it would be. Karl wants to bring in my father, and I
canтАЩt contradict him even though I donтАЩt want to use my father for anything.

We meet in the lounge. Fortunately, Karl has kept Riya out of this
meeting. Most of the dive team is here and all of the pilots. The Business,
safely docked, has its automatic alarms on in case something happens.

Still, this close to a dive, I hate leaving the cockpit unattended.

Karl reminds everyone that he is in charge now. Then he introduces
my fatherтАФusing all of his very impressive credentialsтАФand says,

тАЬI invited him into this meeting because heтАЩs been here before. He
knows a lot about the station and even more about the Room.тАЭ

Karl looks at me. My father is standing next to him, dwarfing Karl. My
father, with his planet-bound height and muscle, looks almost superhuman
compared to the divers. And even though heтАЩs older than everyone except,
perhaps, Odette, he seems much more powerful.

I donтАЩt like the contrast.

тАЬThe changes in what weтАЩre expecting are enough to make me
reassess the mission,тАЭ Karl says.

I turn toward him, shocked. This isnтАЩt the man I hired all those years
ago. This isnтАЩt Karl the Fearless.

He sees my look and holds up his hand to silence me. тАЬIтАЩve learned
over the years that itтАЩs best to talk about the unexpected, and even better to
get the dive teamтАЩs read on it. WeтАЩre here to take extreme risks, but not
unnecessary risks.тАЭ

I dig my teeth into my lower lip, so that I donтАЩt contradict himтАФat least
not yet. At least not this early in the very first meeting heтАЩs called.
 Karl explains our findings, and he uses some impressive graphs and