Andrea Cort 03: War of the Marionettes by Castro Adam-Troy

Author:Castro, Adam-Troy [Castro, Adam-Troy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0083EFVK4
Publisher: Audible Studios
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

The Wreckage

We took Royko skimmer and flew

east from the humans teeth into a region where the land itself seemed to have buckled and torn from some ancient Cataclysm the mountains grew taller pricier and more jagged the canyons between them deeper and more shrouded in darkness for the most part we stayed below the clouds through storms that swath the landscape in grey unremitting rain and from there into brief islands of sunlight that illuminated forests of rolling orange and green without any prompting on our part Pavel Ania kept explaining what we saw with the reflexive eagerness of a guide who loved this world and wanted to assure us that the ugliness we’d seen in our brief time here was not its representative flavor but a tragic departure from the realm she knew she told us the name of the giant for winget thing with the scoop shaped mouth that we caught flying in circles over one expanse of orange lushness before it saw us coming and darted back beneath the forest canopy she pointed out the cliffside carved into a slit by the ribbon of white water that poured over the precipice and plummeted Selenia said more than two kilometers to a valley floor invisible beneath the shroud of mist and rainbows she showed us a bowl many kilometres across that might have been the remains of volcanic caldera or the site of an ancient Meteor strike and warned us to shield our eyes when our flyover brought us in line with the brilliant reflection of the fuse crater floor in other times I might have informed pock Villa Nia that her attempts to impress me were wasted on a person who had little use for the sights to be found on planets today tired staying close to Ocean in what I knew might turn out at any moment to have been the last time we’d ever spend together I just let her guided tour pass over me like background noise something safe to ignore while the rest of the world burned the land grew flatter duller les fecund with points of interest to be remarked upon from the air so Paco Fellini retreated for a while her last comment words to the effect that we’d be flying back into greener places before we neared the scene of cheetah pox crime she left us and went to sit in the rear grabbing a quick meal of some bready substance that emerged from its rapping glistening with a red goo that might have been sauce but that in context made me think of blood I ate something white and homogeneous from inside a tin insisted that Ocean force himself to eat half and sat there not so much enjoying the silence as taking refuge in it and then our reprieve ended Fox who had been sitting by herself as close to us as a vault hiding all its contents behind a shield of impenetrable steel chose a moment

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