Curse of the Alien Ring (SECTORS SF) by Veronica Scott EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Veronica Scott
- Language: English
- Genre: Paranormal / Sci-Fi
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Even a new graduate with one expedition under her belt knew better than
to get improperly involved with the artifacts the Archaeology Service
was removing from the site on Belmane Three. But when the ancient alien
puzzle box yielded to Dianora’s coaxing and opened with an alarming
creaking sound and the amazing ring rolled onto her desk, she was
captivated.
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The ring lay on her desk under the worklight, gleaming golden,
the gemstones sparkling, untouched by time. Dianora set aside the box,
carefully, and leaned over the ring. Her hand literally itched to pick it up
and admire it more closely…to put it on and see how the diamonds would
flash on her finger. The central stone, a gigantic and brilliant opalescent
pink gem glowed with internal fires.
Glancing around to make sure she was alone, which she was of course
because she was the only one still working at the dig this late in the day,
Dianora picked up the ring, enjoying the feel of the cool gold against her
skin. The others on her team laughed at her all the time for her newbie
enthusiasm and willingness to work extra hours trying to solve all the many
puzzles left behind by the long-vanished alien civilization on this world.
For her part, she didn’t understand how they could knock off promptly at
quitting time and go drink feelgoods and socialize with each other and leave
the riddles behind. She also wanted to impress her direct supervisor and the
expedition director so maybe they’d give her better assignments soon.
This was her reward tonight—a find unlike anything else seen so far on
this dig. The ring was stunning and all hers, for now. The others would be
so jealous. She ought to be documenting it and the box from which it had
fallen but she was reluctant to surrender ownership of the jewelry just yet.
Until she recorded the find it was hers and no one else’s. A tiny part of her
mind, the scholarly, rules-following woman who’d graduated top of her
class, was whispering this was all wrong and she was acting totally out of
character. There’d be consequences if any of the team members wandered
into the hut and found her with this artifact unrecorded.
She’d sound the alarm herself if she’d seen a colleague behaving this
way in the field. The days when interstellar archaeology had been a thinly
veiled treasure hunt were long over. Their finds here on Belmane Three
would be properly catalogued and the best of the items would go to the
Sector Twenty-Four museum world for study and display.
But Dianora didn’t care right now, in the grip of the ring’s allure and the
excitement of a stunning find. She’d be famous, once the Service publicized
the find, and absolutely the envy of all her former classmates. Six weeks on
her first job and she’d made the Big Find everyone longed for.
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