Future Reborn: A Post-Apocalyptic Harem by Daniel Pierce

Author:Daniel Pierce [Pierce, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-24T22:00:00+00:00

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We worked quickly on the roof, which was open and sunny as opposed to the cooler interior of the house. Lasser kept the staff away, and Mira proved to have deft hands when it came to removing the small solar panels, laying them end to end in a glittering display of what looked to me like pure freedom. The ability to create power—even in small amounts—was nothing short of miraculous, given the conditions around us, and I was thankful for the chance to get some answers.

I didn’t expect to like them, but that wouldn’t change the fact that I was alive, awake, and remade by technology I didn’t fully understand. I suspected that the tube and ‘bots weren’t fully understood by the very people who used them on me, which would explain why so much of the world was a flyblown shithole instead of a technological paradise. I used to read books about what would happen after the world ended from some disaster, and the authors always thought that no matter how bad things got, civilization would always find a way to come back.

They weren’t just wrong, they were naïve.

I’ve seen how low humans can go during a war, let alone the end of the earth, and cute little villages with a blacksmith were heaven compared to the reality of what rose up from the ashes of a conflict that left humans fighting and dying over scraps of bread or a swallow of water. The Empty was a howling waste, filled with creatures that were unnatural.

The same could be said of the people and their beasts.

Looking down on the busy street, I saw the sloped shoulders of several ogres, their pelts gleaming in the sun as they dragged wagons and carts and even a kind of chariot back and forth at their master’s whims. They were three feet taller than me, muscled like superheroes, and stronger than any animal I’d ever seen, but there was something about them that set my warning bells ringing, like a distant threat I couldn’t quite explain.

I broke away from staring at the street and began lining the solar panels together. Mira scraped together enough cold solder and wire to connect everything we had, but to perfect the array, I’d have to get creative. The sun was constant in the Empty, but that didn’t mean I could get sloppy.

“The sun’s too hot to allow this anywhere near the drives and laptop we’ll be using, but our cord is short enough that we can’t run it through the roof. That means we’re going to need a small shelter up here, and we’ll have to work in the early morning and dusk, maybe, so that we don’t cook off the computer. Too damned hot to let it roast just because we need answers,” I told her.

“She’s on her way,” Mira said.

I cut my eyes toward the Lady’s house, and saw nothing at first, then my eyes settled on a trader, flailing the air with a whip and shouting like a wild drunk.

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