Air by Rosie Scott

Author:Rosie Scott [Scott, Rosie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty-four

The selection of food before us could barely be considered a feast, but given the different varieties of food the dwarves stored on their ships compared to the Vhiri, it would be a special day compared to the rest. The dwarves loved their meat, and with our capture of the battleship, we had access to hundreds of pounds of stored dried meat of all different types. Many of it was meat I hadn't eaten in a good while given I hadn't seen my home country in four years. Even though it was dried and not cooked, the flavors still filled me with nostalgia.

Altan was true to his word and joined us on the battleship for dinner. The first Sentinel was in the midst of filling glasses from a barrel of dwarven ale, a line of mugs for all of us sitting beside him on a serving table. I was glad to see him safe and relatively happy. On the one hand, I was enjoying my time with the Sentinels, and as with most people I met, I tried to befriend them. On the other hand, however, they were beholden to a queen I didn't trust, so there was the thought that one day our relationship would be severed. After all, I could foresee that the queen would turn on me at some point in the future once the goals of our alliance were completed. It was possible that the Sentinels would one day fight against me in battle.

“Gah, I have to admit, that smells delicious,” Altan rambled, as he lifted a freshly poured mug of ale to his nose. “The metalhuggers know how to brew, that's for damn sure.” The Sentinel grimaced at his wording and glanced back to Maggie. “No offense.”

“How should I take offense?” Maggie replied. The engineer sat on the floor beside the table, because no available chair would seat her. Even without a chair, her face was even with all of ours given her taller stature. “I sneak metal into bed with me every night. It likes to cuddle.”

Altan snorted a laugh, before bringing a mug of ale to the engineer. “Just for that, my dear, you get the first mug.”

We waited for the first Sentinel to finish serving our ale. Every muscle in my body was aching with the events of the day. After joining up with Altan, we'd done our part to clean up what we could. Maggie had spent some time in what she called the engine room trying to figure out how to sail the battleship. She'd made some quick explanations about how the ship ran by utilizing water itself, which made little sense to me. I was just happy she could understand it and work with it. We had planned to send the battleship back to Makani and move our crew to an allied ship that hadn't been injured in the day's battle, but Maggie suggested against it. The Vhiri were mostly ignorant to the ways of machinations, and unless Maggie

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