Harvest by Olga Werby

Author:Olga Werby [Werby, Olga]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780578501437
Publisher: Pipsqueak Productions LLC
Published: 2019-05-19T22:00:00+00:00

They all removed their head-mounted cameras and passed them on to Glen and Ziva, who attached them to a cord at regular intervals. Vars was impressed at how fast the thing came together—these guys were pros at improvisational engineering in space. It was the first time she had truly appreciated the team Major Liut had put together. She’d always known they were good pilots and mechanics, but this was different. Space deployment field readiness...

“Ready,” Ziva said.

“Let it drop,” said Ivan. And they all settled down to watch the cam-views and each other.

One of Ben’s scampering drones pulled the assembly down the hole. Each camera shot forth several little gears that engaged with the walls and allowed the drone to pull it along.

“They all can do that?” Vars asked.

“Cameras are made to mount on different locations and to different devices,” Glen explained. “It’s easy to keep the attachment gears engaged in a makeshift drive mode. The assembly could go a hundred meters deep.”

“We won’t be able to make them go that far,” Ziva disagreed, “but hopefully we won’t have to.”

A hundred meters didn’t seem far enough. The Mims had gotten Alice. Vars didn’t understand how, but she felt certain of it. The question was what were the aliens planning to do with her? With all of them?

The camera train moved slowly around the curve in the tunnel. It showed the same thing that they’d seen earlier through Alice’s camera. Vars would bet it was a perfect match frame by frame...and then the drone bumped into a wall. The tunnel into which Alice had turned was blocked. The drone tried to push through. Once. Twice. Then it sucked in its gears, and so did all the cameras behind it. There was nowhere to go.

“That wasn’t there before,” Vars said.

“Did we miss a turn?” Ivan asked.

“No,” said Ian. “We’ve been comparing the footage from Alice’s cam with the view from the centipede cam. This is definitely the same tunnel.”

“Or an identical tunnel,” Ben said. “We are looking at a fractal construction.”

“But there wasn’t any other way to turn,” Ziva said. “This was it.”

“Except there’s no Alice,” said Vars.

“No Alice,” Ziva echoed.

“Leave the cam centipede inside,” Liut said. “Glen and Ziva, you stay there. The rest return to the ship. We’ll take turns watching for Alice.”

He didn’t mention that she had only four hours of breathable air left. He didn’t have to. They were all thinking the same thing.

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