Avant-Garde: A Sci-Fi Adventure Novel (The Noom Book 1) by Maria Bergwald

Author:Maria Bergwald [Bergwald, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2023-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

1 What’s inside? (from Neoarese)

2 It’s gradian

3 Anything else?

4 No, just commodities.

5 Who’s that?

6 She fled Grad. Don’t kill her. Please!

7 We’ll take her to our master! I think he won’t mind a new slave girl… And you… We’ll soon find a way to discipline you!

8 You are now the slave of Samaa A’Obal! And your body belongs only to your master!

9 Welcome!

10 You’ll be fine!

11 No!

Chapter 7

A couple of weeks later, Sani took Ir to show her the workplace—the agricultural farm to which she had been assigned by N’Itu.

“Ruta grows on this side and over there, in the distance, ongu and akgan. That’s the main fruit that our island specializes in. The work in the fields is very hard. I don’t know why the lady sent you here. Maybe she thought that if you worked in the mines extracting gradian, farming under the scorching heat of Noom would seem like a simple task for you. Now that you already know the basics of the language, you can communicate enough to be of use to the kasanduan.”

They were greeted by an older man dressed in bright orange clothing with a large round hat with a wide brim.

“I am Ir.”

“Oshu,” said the man hastily. “No time to talk! Let’s go to the field!”

She followed the head farmer briskly, anticipating a hard, grueling day, and walked along a narrow, rocky path leading her to a small cliff. Ir gasped in amazement.

The unfolded landscape was so stunning that any other planet would be jealous of its beauty, and any inhabitant would give the fortune to enjoy such a miracle. As she stood at the very top, grace and majesty were revealed to her. She wanted to turn into a bird and, spreading her wings wide apart, enjoy her flight over the meadow. There was a slope beneath her feet that went several kanzhyuns down at a sharp angle. Strips of rutu bushes stretched across it in immaculate rows. There were so many that it was impossible to count them. No wonder Neoar could feed the entire world with its delicacies. The small, elongated fruits hung in whole clusters, luring in birds and insects with their bright color and tart scent.

“You will work here today.” Oshu interrupted Ir’s fantasies. “Because the fruits are juicing, they are getting heavier every day. To help the branches support them, we prop them up with these sticks.”

The man pointed to a wide lever split at the top.

“Pay attention to how they’re fixed. If you set the support wrong, the branch will break off and the crop will be lost. First, get the sticks from that barn over there, and then I’ll show you what to do next.”

Ir followed all the instructions with precision and listened attentively to the old farmer. He, in turn, initially skeptical of the new worker, was eventually impressed by her diligence and took a liking to her.

In just a couple of days, Oshu taught Ir how to care for ongu and akgan. They were some of the most demanding plants on Neoar.

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