Crystal Tomb (Starfire Angels: Dark Angel Chronicles Book 3) by Melanie Nilles

Author:Melanie Nilles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: angels, love story, aliens, crystals, starfire, wings, melanie nilles, teen series
Publisher: Melanie Nilles

Life Changes

"Raea! Raea! Wake up!" A worried voice disturbed the contentment of a balmy day. "Oh, God. Please, Raea."

A cool breeze ruffled the skirt around Atia's leggings where she stood on the balcony of what was becoming the palace of their land-based city. Three years already in the making, it would soon be finished. Those first few years on the island had been dedicated to finding food to feed them and creating shelter for all, especially through the first turbulent cold season. The years were also longer on this world, so that the cold season seemed interminable. Construction of the city proper had been secondary to shelter and food for all.

Over the pinnacles of rising fortresses of stone, crafted by those willing to learn under the guidance of the engineers, flew a shuttle from the mainland bringing more food harvested from their fields. They had studied the lifecycles of many plants within the confinement of makeshift laboratories. Using the knowledge gained, they started plots of the most useful plants. Through the cycles of this world, several of their kind had developed specialized knowledge of the native plants.

The food had proven compatible for them, despite the vast differences. From different parts of that world, they had found various plants, some poisonous but many nutritious and capable of supporting them, and many more bearing medicinal properties.

The hassam had been another matter. While appearing similar, they were savage and brutal among their own kind, often roaming and foraging for food rather than settling to use the land's resources to their best advantage. Most hassam fled from the Inari, while others bowed in respect. Helping them would take far longer than her lifetime.

But they had other uses. In a few faraway regions, the hassam learned more quickly than others. They mined the elements Atia's people needed to create a new city, while the Inari tended the fields to feed them and managed herds of the food animals in the region for easy hunting. Those hassam benefited from their knowledge and showed signs of developing a new culture.

She took some comfort in that, but everything occupied her every waking moment.

Even now, as she waited for a report from the engineer in charge of the new city construction, she was at the mercy of others' needs. Her life belonged to her people, serving them by administering their lives and directing the use of their resources to better everyone.

Her only relief came in seeing Lantis grow up and mature with the experience he had gained by shadowing the ministers in their duties. He learned quickly and demonstrated a skill beyond many girls his age to see the whole machine through the sum of its parts.

They would know his name some day, a great leader of the Inari. He would shine for House Mikael. Through the disaster had come an opportunity. She only wished it hadn't come this way.

["Lady Atia."]

Here she went again. Another problem to resolve.

She sighed away the thoughts and turned from her brief respite at the balcony.

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