Eden's Legions- the Corpse Rim Heir by Peter Andra

Author:Peter Andra [Andra, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-30T22:00:00+00:00

XVIII

Kyzenion Roarphers

She had always kept her hair long, ever since she abandoned her windy home. Now it was a net for the jungle’s colorful vegetation. She felt like she had been running for hours. It was nice to get some exercise after being cooped up in the ship the last few days. She’d always loved to run in light gravity; it almost felt like flying. The moon’s thick oxygen made it all nearly effortless. Still, her prey seemed impossible to catch.

She lost it again and stopped to listen, to watch. She squatted to better search the undergrowth. It had taken several hours for her eyes to adjust to the light here. The moon was never touched by direct sunlight, it relied on the giant ice world Vulnax for a reflection of the sun. The reflected light was dull, white, and warm. It clashed with the black ground. The jungle floor was covered in dark decaying leaves, they looked like ash and charcoal underneath dark purple wide-leaf vegetation.

“It’s steering toward you!” Avery yelled, springing back into full sprint. She held her elbows up to block the large face-slapping leaves. Exploiting the weak gravity, she effortlessly leapt a twenty-foot-wide ravine with a small stream at the bottom. As she landed on the other side, she could see Arden some distance to her left, making an attempt to jump the same ravine, but he chose poor footing, the dirt ledge beneath his feet crumbled under his weight. He tumbled to splash in the shallow water.

Avery looked forward, catching just a glimpse of a flat, wide tail before it disappeared into the undergrowth. She circled wide, hoping to encourage it toward her brother. Hopefully he didn’t screw this up, she thought. He would only get one shot at it. She had used her power reserves already trying to stun the thing, but she never got close enough, now her nanos were drained.

Everything was going as planned. She could see Arden through patches of foliage looking miserable and wet. Perfect. “Get ready,” she yelled at him. “Don’t miss.”

Arden took a defensive stance and held it. Then came a loud crack and flash of light. The leaves smoldered and the undergrowth filled with smoke.

“You missed it,” Avery said, frustrated and out of breath, plowing through the cloud of smoke rising from the forest floor. “And good thing too. No way it could have survived that shock.”

“Maybe we should just give it up,” Arden suggested hopefully. “It’s just too smart, it won’t fall for any of our traps, and is impossible to catch.”

“It’s not too smart, you just startled it and lost your nerve. We are not giving it up! That thing would set us up for a week,” Avery stubbornly responded before tirelessly pursuing the creature deeper into the jungle with Arden in tow behind her.

After several minutes of suffering the bruising beatings of large, heavy leaves and flexible whipping branches, Avery and Arden felt as though they were suddenly cast from the jungle, when they

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