City Under Ice by T E Olivant

Author:T E Olivant
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Shuna Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I awoke flat on my back on the snow and at first the only thing I was aware of was a tearing ache that started at my feet and ended at my head, along with everything in between. As I moved to rub my aching limbs the events of the day before came flooding back. The long trek across the White, the battle with the wolves, and finding the stranger. Which meant that…

The creature was curled in on himself as he slept under a spare fur from my pack. The strange clothing that stuck to his skin covered him all over, and the only part I could see clearly was his face, which was behind a transparent panel of some kind. I had wondered if maybe I had imagined his strangeness, if he could just be a runt of some obscure clan I didn’t know. But it only took one look to see that this creature was not of my world.

“Hello, my name is Angel Sam.”

If I hadn’t already been on the ground I would have fallen down in shock. The creature had opened its eyes and spoken. I grabbed my knife and rose slowly from the floor. He stared back at me. Then my brain processed what he had said: he spoke my language! This strange pale alien actually spoke the same words I did, although his voice was higher and some of the vowel sounds were a little off. I would have been less surprised if he had sung like a bird, or growled like a beast of the White. What was he?

“Do you understand me? I’m Sam, what’s your name?”

He held his hand out towards me and I backed away. He was no threat, I could have crushed his skull in an instant with my bare claws. But he was just too strange, I didn’t want to be near him. I would have rather have confronted an angry mother elk than this creature. But he hadn’t been trying to touch me. Instead he reached for the pack by his side.

“Here, it’s food, do you want some?” He took a small wrapped block from his bag and began to mime eating it. He then held it out to me as if I was some wild creature he was trying to tame.

“I am no animal,” I said finally. “My name is Kyrk, and I do not need your food.”

The boy looked just as frightened as I had to hear me speak. He put down his pack and stared.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you.”

I sighed and dropped my knife to my side. Whatever this thing might be, he was clearly not a threat, at least not at this moment.

“I’m going to ask you some questions,” I said slowly, “and I need you to answer them before I decide what to do with you.”

The boy looked pale, but I had to make it clear who was in charge.

“All right,” he said.

“How old are you?”

“Eighteen.”

A year older than me. But he looked like a child!

“Where did you come from?”

“The City.

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