(eng) Kylie Chan - Dragon Empire 01 by Scales of Empire

Author:Scales of Empire [Empire, Scales of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

When all the equipment was stowed on Shiumo’s ship, we went up ourselves, ten at a time, in the pod. I took my team up first, to help them acclimatise to their quarters. We sat on the cushions, and a Marque sphere hovered over us, giving us the usual instructions.

The pod opened, and I guided my team to their rooms. Our quarters were roughly rectangular, with a two-metre ceiling, and located in the middle of the ship. They filled the full width of the massive ship, and the floor and walls were shiny ceramic black. The area was divided into four smaller squares, with single living spaces around the sides, and shared common areas for eating and socialising in the middle. Each room had a double bed and its own bathroom.

My team made soft sounds of wonder when they saw their rooms.

‘This ship is enormous,’ Elise said.

‘All this space for just one person!’ Alison said.

‘Family members occasionally join Shiumo,’ Marque said from the walls of the ship. ‘And some of her spouses are big enough to take up a good proportion of the space. She had this large ship made because of one particular spouse –’

‘Are the next group ready yet?’ I said, cutting it off.

‘They’ll be here in twenty seconds.’

‘I’ll go meet them,’ I said, and smiled at my team. ‘Settle in and enjoy the comfort. This will be the last we experience for a long time.’

‘Probably forever,’ Marcia said. ‘Totally worth it.’

‘I’m more focused on getting our habitat established so we can move into it,’ Alison said with enthusiasm.

‘As long as we don’t have to eat anything blue-green,’ Marcia said.

I shared a laugh with them, and went back to the pod hatch to welcome the next batch of colonists.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.