Dragonstar Destiny by David Bischoff & Thomas F. Monteleone

Author:David Bischoff & Thomas F. Monteleone [Bischoff, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Event Horizon EBooks
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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When she opened her eyes, there was a bright light to her left. A dull, throbbing pain seemed to be capering behind her right eye. There was nothing but darkness beyond the glare of the single lamp.

Until Phineas Kemp leaned forward, the orange glow of the bulb illuminated half of his face. He smiled and slowly lifted her to a sitting position, steadying her against his chest. She felt dizzy, disoriented, but the firm strength of his embrace was reviving her quickly. The pain began to subside.

“Well, I think you’re going to make it, lady ...”

“What happened?”

“When mom took a tumble, what was left of her head missed you by a couple of centimeters. Just caught your jumpsuit and pulled you down. You hit your head on a tree trunk of something. You’ve been out cold.”

“Where are we? Are we safe?” Kate looked around, but could not yet focus on the dim shadows beyond the single pool of light from his lamp.

“We’re back in the cave ...”

“What?” Her heart jumped as she realized they were still out in the Preserve, and it was definitely dark now.

“Take it easy. Nothing’s going to bother us in here.”

“But why? How ...?”

Phineas smiled, gave her a comforting squeeze on the arm. “When the tyrannosaurus went down, her carcass started attracting scavengers immediately. We had to get out of there before the place was overrun ...”

“Oh God” was all she could whisper.

“So I picked you up and carried you back here. It was the closest, and definitely the safest.”

“You carried me?”

“We would’ve never made it to the gate,” he continued. “I radioed the Council, told them what happened. They’re going to send the OTV out in the morning.”

“What about Visigoth?”

Phineas shrugged. “Last I saw, he was beating cheeks into the forest. He hadn’t gotten back to Hakkarh when I was on the horn ...”

“I hope he makes it,” she said. “Did you see the way they stood up to the rex?”

Phineas nodded, grinned. “Yeah, those guys are either very brave or very crazy.”

“Like you,” she said.

“Huh?”

“Very brave to save me like you did ...” Kate smiled and sat up straight. She touched the edge of his jaw. “Or very crazy to think you’d be safe spending the night in a cave ... with me.”

Phineas swallowed, but said nothing. He seemed a bit shocked by her forwardness, but not displeased.

“You mean I’m not safe?” he asked finally.

Kate began unbuttoning the top of her jumpsuit. “That depends,” she said, “upon what you mean by ‘safe,’ doesn’t it?”

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