Crisis Management
By Viola Grace
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Dev’s talent makes her unwanted on her own world so she chooses to join the Citadel in an effort to find another where acceptance will be offered.
Helsin is the physician who tests her talent and when he confirms her strength he offers her a position in the Lowel Citadel, a base that is still in the planning stages.
Dev becomes the first employee of Lowel Citadel, based in the Udell base and trained by the Sector Guard. With a resume like that it is no wonder that on her first assignment she is told that she has a talent for crisis management. Her living arrangements are crisis enough.
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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Crisis Management - Viola Grace
Dev leaves her own world knowing that her future lies elsewhere. She joins the Citadel where her strength can be useful, but is useful enough?
Dev’s talent makes her unwanted on her own world, so she chooses to join the Citadel in an effort to find another where acceptance will be offered.
Helsin is the physician who tests her talent and when he confirms her strength, he offers her a position in the Lowel Citadel, a base that is still in the planning stages.
Dev becomes the first employee of Lowel Citadel, based in the Udell base and trained by the Sector Guard. With a resume like that, it is no wonder that on her first assignment she is told that she has a talent for crisis management. Her living arrangements are crisis enough.
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Crisis Management
Copyright © 2012 Viola Grace
ISBN: 978-1-77111-375-5
Cover art by Martine Jardin
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Crisis Management
Tales of the Citadel 12
By
Viola Grace
Chapter One
Devani Jarix was hard at work when a voice behind her jolted her out of her zone of numbers and data.
Dev, aren’t you going to be late?
Dev looked up and saw Tish loitering in the entrance to her cubicle. Blinking, Dev looked at the clock. Oh hell. Thanks, Tish.
She got up, grabbed her jacket and smiled. Wish me luck?
Tish snorted. You don’t need it. You are a lock.
Let’s see what the Citadel recruiters think.
Dev walked past her and down row upon row of cubicles until she reached the lift.
She bit her lip and breathed through her nose as she entered the lift. Oh, hello, Mr. Simithan.
Her supervisor moved to the back of the lift when she entered and cowered against the corner. Ms. Jarix. What are you doing here?
I took this afternoon off, remember? It’s the Citadel recruitment fair at the convention centre.
Oh, right. Good luck with that.
Dev gave him a tight smile. Thank you.
She pressed the button for the lobby and waited as the lift stopped on the third floor to let him off. She nodded briefly and waited to reach the main floor to make her escape.
The security guards wished her luck, and Dev smiled and waved weakly. There was no choice really. She had to do something to get herself out of the spotlight here on Bahi. She had been in the news four times in the last two years, and it was becoming awkward to even go to work.
Dev hiked to the rail station and took the train into the city. The Citadel recruitment fair drew plenty of hopefuls to the convention centre, and she was one of the plodding masses.
Dev stood in line and fidgeted, keeping her mind blank. There were a few empaths in line with her, as well as one or two uncontrolled telepaths, and she really didn’t want anyone strolling through her mind randomly.
She shuffled forward with the others in minute increments until she was finally facing the registration officer.
Hello, miss. May I have your name?
The woman’s skin was a soft pale pink and her baby blue eyes were soothing.
Dev cleared her throat. Devani Jarix.
Devani, what do you believe your talent to be?
The woman’s fingers were poised over the icons on her data pad.
Dev looked around and relaxed when there was no one near the kiosk. Um. I am bullet proof and I can lift large weights.
The woman raised her brows. How large?
Two tons is my current limit.
Dev shifted from foot to foot.
Are you willing to prove your talent?
Dev nodded. Yes. There are also local news reports that should be easily accessible.
You have been in the news?
Not willingly, but yes. I seem to stumble into trouble.
Just a moment.
The woman’s fingers moved rapidly, and she raised her brows with an impressed expression on her features. I see. You will be meeting with a recruiter immediately. Please take this locator and have a seat through those lavender doors.
Dev took the palm-sized disk and walked past the other kiosks,