Alien Alliance by Maxine Millar

Author:Maxine Millar
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi

Steve

It was the morning after the gas attack when Steve Nilsen again fleetingly wondered if Donny was still alive. He wondered how long it would be now. He sat in the corner and looked out the window, waiting to die. He cried softly as he remembered the moment that he realised Anna had died. He had held his breath as the gas wafted over them and she had collapsed. He had picked her up and run to hide behind some shrubs. He cradled her in his arms but she did not wake up. He was struggling to breathe himself; he kept forgetting to breathe and feeling dizzy and light headed. He had the worst headache he had ever known. He wondered if he had had a stroke; it felt like his brain was swelling. The pressure was shocking. He thought that if he were to fall asleep, he would die.

As the awful day wore on, he felt Anna become stiff and cold. He could not accept it but neither could he bear to see her like that. Finally, he had got up and staggered away from her. His thirst was terrible and he could barely see; the daylight was blinding. He was having difficulty walking, his balance very bad. He drank from a puddle in the garden. He was both nauseous and more thirsty than he had ever been in his life. The thirst won. He kept the water down. He noticed others alive in a building and he joined them. The long day passed, and then the long night. At least he eventually felt better. The headache was much reduced. His eyesight was back to normal and he was hungry. But there was nothing safe to eat. The goop stuff turned out to be poisoned as was revealed when several Aliens tried it and died. It was not a nice death. They writhed in agony. It was fast though and that was lucky. A quick warning to others.

The next morning he refused to join the group of Terrans who tried to escape. It was a waste of time. Why wouldn’t the idiots listen to all the Aliens around them who knew better? He saw Li and Stella but ignored them. He couldn’t bear to see Donny again and then lose him. It would be nicer to die together but he instinctively knew that Donny would not sit and calmly watch death coming. He was not sure why he knew that. He knew so little about his strange, emotional, gentle son. He had never understood him. His father always said he was just like Steve’s mother but Steve had never understood his mother either. The day drifted on.

He heard the sound of aircraft. Looking out the window, he saw funny looking stubby aircraft landing near the buildings. Some Aliens disembarked. They had four legs and apparently two arms as they were carrying some large things a little like a gas sprayer (he presumed), with a tank like thing on their backs.

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