Daybreak by Cheree Alsop

Author:Cheree Alsop
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: danger, Series, Space Opera, Romance, Science Fiction, Adventure, action
ISBN: 9781517722067
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-10-06T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“If what you’re saying is true, the Revolutionaries aren’t responsible for the Coalition surveyors’ beacon.”

Liora focused on Devren’s voice in an effort to push her thoughts away.

Devren’s words were a quiet counterbalance to the Shathryn’s near-hysterical voice. An officer named Clell moaned with pain while Tariq patched his stomach. Liora felt claustrophobic in the small ship surrounded by so many people. She closed her eyes and listened to Devren in an effort to stay calm.

“Perhaps if we can find the reason for their distress signal, we can get to the bottom of what the Coalition wants us to do here.”

“You’ll have to meet with Stone about that,” the gray-haired rebel replied.

“Will he be at the ship?”

“I’m not sure. We lost track of our men when the worms attacked.” His voice lowered. “We’ve been here three days and haven’t seen them before. I don’t know what brought them out.”

“All I know is that huge worms make for even bigger predators.” Officer Straham leaned his head back and gave a weary sigh. “If I never seen one of those bird dragon things again, it’ll be too soon.”

“I second that,” Hyrin agreed.

He settled the ship onto the sunlit sand a click away from the Revolutionary spacecraft.

“Give us a few minutes to talk to them,” the rebel told Devren. “We’ll smooth things over so they don’t come out shooting.”

“I appreciate that,” Devren replied.

As soon as the rebels were off the ship, Officer Straham put his palm to a reader near the back. A panel opened to reveal a hidden cache of weapons.

“It pays to be cautious,” Devren told his crew while Straham handed them out. “Don’t have itchy trigger fingers, but stay on guard. We’re enemies, but something’s not right here. Until we get to the bottom of it, I don’t want anyone making any rash decisions.” He looked at Shathryn. “Understood?”

A wave of surprise filled Liora at the Humanoid’s embarrassed look. “I understand.”

“Did you shoot someone?” Liora asked her.

Shathryn lifted her shoulders in a little shrug. She looked so fragile with strings of worm entrails in her hair and her gun held in the crook of her bandaged arm, it was hard to imagine her hurting anyone.

“I may have shot the commander of a rebel force we were supposed to question a few years back,” she admitted.

“You also shot the heir to the Belanite secondary line,” Hyrin said from the front seat.

“He was a jerk,” Shathryn told the pilot.

“We’re lucky they still let us land on any of the Gaulded,” Hyrin reminded her.

“How about the Salamandon princess. What was her name? Cry…cray…Cratonista?” O’Tule asked.

“She not only had a stick where the stars don’t shine, she was hitting on Devren,” Shathryn said with a spark of protectiveness in her gaze.

“I told you I could handle myself.” Devren shook his head. “It’s not like I would have done anything.”

“I’d hope not,” Shathryn replied. “She was up to no good.”

“You’ve really got to stop shooting people,” Tariq told her. “One of these days it may have consequences.

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