Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

She had to admit, this made her stomach flip. Her heartpounded but she took in the view. There were three of thesetiny threads coming off that cliff, looking like strands ofspider web holding the inner islands in place. She was soaringover the harbor, like coming in on a hang glider, and thenhurtling on that hang glider thru city streets.The cliffs were lower on these islands, but the buildingswere taller, some of them as tall as the cliffs of the outerislands. The one she stopped at was one of them, it was on aplaza with a hanger station. The security was pretty tight for aplace that was supposed to be perfect. She thought for awhilethere would be a strip search involved, but instead they hadperfect simulations of walk-thru detectors.The girl who escorted her to her appointment could havebeen one of the girls who jumped the bull in 1648bc. She hadon a little more clothing, briefs and a sports bra. She couldn’thave been any older, well maybe this girl was nineteen. Shecertainly had just as much training as the bull jumpers by thetime she was thirteen, and had gone on to serious martial artssince then. To Ava, who’s physical activities were slow sexand sunset strolls in the foam along the beach, she lookeddeadly.There was some rigamarole to get into the right part of thebuilding, the direct route was higher security. When shefinally reached the room her guide intended, there wereseveral men there. They jumped up at her arrival, and severalother heads peeked thru the door on the far side.531