The countdown to Drift Would’s release day has started! Woot!
I will be sharing the first chapter while we wait.
Today, I’m sharing the very first scene.
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Chapter One
Beings assumed Drift gravitated toward his pilot role because he loved flying above all else.
That projection wasn’t 100.0000 percent accurate.
He became a pilot because he had an overwhelming need for speed. And he could go faster when he was at the helm of a ship in space.
Especially if he was flying a battle station equipped with systems he’d spent solar cycles fine-tuning. The Dauntless was now an extension of him, like an arm or a leg.
The prospect of severing that connection and allowing another being to sit in his chair was…unsettling. Especially as that being was Grid, a warrior who delighted in causing chaos.
But Drift would make that sacrifice. Because his flying skills were needed for a dangerous mission. And because his captain, Intrepid, ordered him to do that.
Intrepid had been instrumental in freeing him and many other cyborgs from the Humanoid Alliance, their cruel manufacturers. Drift would follow any command the male issued.
Don’t modify anything. He sent that clear message to Grid over the officer-transmission lines.
Save the settings, because I’m modifying everything. The navigator cackled as he accessed the Dauntless’s flying-critical systems.
That isn’t logical. Choice, one of their engineers and the newest addition to their crew, attempted to reason with the male. Drift has optimized his controls. The Dauntless has broken every speed record in the battle-station categories due to his modifications.
They had broken every speed record in the battle-station categories. That truth repeated in Drift’s processors. It would be fraggin’ difficult to go faster.
In the same type of vessel.
Drift isn’t the pilot now. Grid was already modifying the settings.
You’re correct. There was nothing Drift could do to stop the male. You have the pilot’s chair.
He stood.
You’re giving up so easily? Grid sounded disappointed.
I trust our captain. Drift processed their captain would never endanger the battle station or the crew. Both would be safe with Grid as their pilot.
He had to focus on the upcoming mission.
And the different type of ship he’d be flying.
Fast.
His lips curled upward. New records would soon be broken.
He walked with Cure, his mission partner, toward the docking bay.
The lead medic’s countenance showed 0.0000 emotion.
Many of them had worn similar blank masks when they were under the Humanoid Alliance’s control. But 99.5869 percent of them, including Drift, had discarded those impenetrable expressions once they reached freedom. They often allowed their organic sides to emerge and their emotions to be visible.
Cure was part of the remaining 0.4131 percent. The male rarely showed emotion.
Drift projected his organic side wasn’t fully functional.
But the male was a fraggin’ skilled medic. And he was an asset to any team.
They didn’t feel a need to speak to each other as they moved through the battle station. Yet the hallways weren’t navigated in silence.
The warriors they passed pelted them with taunts and gibes and comments through the transmission lines.
Save some enemies for us.
The weapon will be destroyed twice as fast.
Modified-freighter speed records will be broken.
That last statement was the truth. Drift’s tread lightened. The modified freighter he would be flying had been altered more significantly than the others. He’d rebuilt the engines with his own two hands and had allocated 719.6488 free shifts to improving the small vessel’s capabilities.
Guns had been added. The monitoring ranges had been extended. Other changes had been made. Those weren’t as exciting as the velocity increases, however.
According to Strike, the Dauntless’s former second-in-command, there would be plenty of open space en route to reach top speeds. The male had plotted much of the course they would follow. Planets, moons, and debris fields had all been noted in the shared cyborg databases.
It would be glorious. Drift grinned. There would be no one and nothing around them. He’d push the modified freighter’s systems.
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Read the next scene (available July 1st) here:
https://tasteofcyn.com/?p=12017
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Drift Would
A cyborg and a spy fly into danger.
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Drift is one of the best pilots in existence, and he has been assigned a perilous mission.
The G Model cyborg must fly to a distant planet, locate the sector-destroying superweapon the enemy is projected to be developing there, and obliterate that threat to the universe.
When Drift arrives at his destination and meets with an informant, he’s distracted by a mysterious human female seated in the shadows. She’s Drift’s genetic match, and she is the one being he’s destined to care for, claim, and protect.
She’s also a liar and a thief. And she might be working with the enemy.
Trusting her could kill him and everyone he cares about.
Liar. Thief. Seductress. Saboteur. Roshini has been called all of those things. And she has earned each label. She’s done some terrible things to safeguard the beings she loves.
A gray-eyed cyborg warrior with nimble hands and a shared need for speed won’t stop her high-risk activities.
She’ll sacrifice everything, including her lifespan, to complete her self-appointed top-secret assignment.
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Drift Would is a standalone, enemies-to-lovers, Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a cyborg who loves to break speed records, a human spy with a talent for changing her appearance, and a foe intent on killing them both.
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