Councilor: Book Six of The Channel Riders

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the aisles at the grocery store and paid very little attention to what went in her cart. As a consequence, when she arrived back in the apartment and began

nifer left, so Elena was on her own for dinner. Elena shrugged and settled herself at the small kitchen table to work while she waited for her pizza. Even though she wa

iend saying that spending too much time on her own wasn't healthy; that she needed to socialize more. "Who was that?" she thought pausing

iend to risk didn't sit well. "Especially since I don't know what's happening with Andre." Even though she no longer counted him on

y and vehemently to discourage others who would break Guild law. Her grandfather told her that he operated the same way, even though she ha

een enough to know the ruthlessness of the rest of the councilmembers. Despite this, Elena was hoping that she would not need to develop that sort of re

rs tonight." She ripped open the top, the tearing paper having a final sound to it as she deliberately pushed thoughts of Tina away. Elena slid the single folded

o possible schematics for the council to choose from for the design of the chambers and Mateo and Kiera came up with a list of three possible locations. The files Elena brought b

up with a basic time line for gathering supplies, construction, transport and final assembly. Admittedly nothing could be done until the Council decided on a location for the new DF. Mateo had a h

ions. She also knew the time line was based solely on recreating the previous Docking Facility and not any of

the list. Unlike the first two items, the third item had a couple of bullet points listed below. The first bullet point simply read

lanning to use the captured DF as a base and with it gone, they were forced to retreat further into home territory than they wanted, using an esta

rritory and adding much needed supplies to their cargo, the setback and destruction of a large portion of their armada damaged their alliance greatly. Commander McLaughlin who led the Patrol ships, the closest thing the Guild had to a

e in the files. She wondered if she could track him down before the meeting to find either his full file or a copy of his summery. She had a rather exten

than actually being able to contact him." Elena shook her head and made a mental n

me when dealing with her, let alone any other pertinent details. She was pretty much convinced he only told them the Thompson part so they wouldn't simply call him 'hey you' during their interactions. Being able to call

uilding more ships, in effect, building up the Guild's military forces in preparation for war, although at the moment no one was willing to come out and say that directly. Elena f

d. "Not that the Patrol can't fight." She knew all members of the patrol we

Guild ships were caught between warring factions of alien races, but more often ships were lost due to raiders. The Patrol ships were accustomed to keeping Raiders at bay and they

f the off season trying to keep him from bringing the fight to the Matroveans in retaliation. She was fairly certain only the fact that he would need full Council approva

ack the Matrovean movements and escorting channel riders to their destinations, protecting them

bulk of the off season and all other projects were put on hold during construction. The Phoenix was launched a few weeks prior to the channels re-opening for the season. As it stood, that

nnels did not have a deep enough draught to allow even a completely unloaded Patrol ship passage. Elena knew the Council had arrangements with an o

now her shipyard. He came to Haven as a part of Elena's deal with Riko. As the elderly councilor's health began failing and her heir apparent, Hashi started eliminat

ent would need to be written between Elena and Riko. She hadn't been in any rush about it as Riko seemed to fade further every time Elena saw her

making the Guild's emergency retreat location a target was a bad idea. "Besides, I have the feeling they are going to want someone else in charge of it.

f building a new Docking Facility, the rest of the Council had to want someone else in charge of the bulking up of military might. Some of the Council, she k

other business, nothing else was on the agenda. "So half and half, " she decided setting the pag

ly well and the other half I am unsure about or should

the stacked files towards her and began preparing for her meeting with James. Between the two, Elena decided the