Against the Eldest Flame (Doc Vandal Adventures Book 1) by Dave Robinson

Author:Dave Robinson [Robinson, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Doc Vandal Publications
Published: 2017-04-19T23:00:00+00:00

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“Ouch, that must have hurt,” Vic muttered as the rifle butt came down on the back of Doc’s head. The cage she was in looked like nothing so much as a four by three foot dog kennel. With a three foot ceiling, she had no room to stand, so she sat against the back wall and waited for her own Mauser butt.

Surprisingly, it didn’t come. From the expressions on their captors’ faces it seemed they didn’t consider either her or Gilly a threat. Instead they just jabbed their bayonets far enough into the cages to make sure they were at the far end from the gate and then ignored them.

Both she and Gilly were left alone in their kennels as the gorillas held a brief discussion and then formed up around the cart. A slightly smaller than average brown shirt hopped onto the bench in the front of the cart and snapped a whip in the air above the harnessed dinosaur.

The big creature ambled forward with an ostrich-like gait, setting the cart into rattling motion. The bars bounced against her back, forcing her to sit upright in the straw and hold on to the bars to either side. Although the road was smooth, riveted iron wheels weren’t going to give a comfortable ride on any surface. Oh well, the seat was worse, but on the whole it wasn’t much different than riding a bicycle on cobblestones.

The city itself wasn’t like anything Vic had ever seen, and she had seen a lot starting with her childhood in Saint Petersburg. Her grandmother had got her out of Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and then they had taken ship south around Asia and up through Suez from Vladivostok. She had seen both Shanghai and Bombay before she was ten; Alexandria, Athens, and Rome too.

At first glance, the buildings looked to be covered with a shiny green stucco. At second, they looked more like they were carved from solid stone. Still, it was the inhabitants more than the buildings that caught Vic’s eye. The broad white avenues held more gorillas than she had ever seen in her life.

It wasn’t actually that large a number, certainly not in comparison to the human population in cities like Bombay or New York, but it was large enough to make an impression. Where all the apes she had seen so far had dressed like Americans or Europeans, these gorillas weren’t. Instead, they wore loose kilts and caftans, with obvious pockets and sporrans. It wasn’t all brown, either. Bright colors were common and many wore what could only be dinosaur feathers as decorations. The bright yellow feathers reminded Vic of the gorilla that had fallen to his death just after Schmidt transformed.

The road they were traveling was obviously the city’s main thoroughfare, paved with something like white macadam. It cut straight across the city, heading towards a narrow path that climbed the inside of the crater wall that disappeared not far from the rim. The further they traveled, the more obvious it became that the city was severely underpopulated.

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