Hunter's Terminus (The Hunter Imperium Book 2) by Timothy Ellis

Author:Timothy Ellis [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-12-16T07:00:00+00:00

Forty Two

I did wait.

Not that it bothered me to. Instead of meeting leaders, we took a station shuttle back down to the planet below. A small spaceport was on the outskirts of the only city. And as we flew over it, calling it a city was being somewhat over generous. It was more than a big town though.

Not far from where we landed was a monument. Thorn led us over there, and we stood there wondering what it was for.

"I built this monument a long time ago, at a time when I was the only person on this planet."

He flicked a glance at me, and looked back at what I could now see was some sort of tablet, mounted inside a glass case.

"When I first came here, there was a city about five times the size of the one you see now. I lived there for two years, and one day was kidnapped by slavers. It was weeks later when I returned, and found nothing. I thought somehow I’d destroyed this civilization. And this set me on a course which did destroy the civilization." He looked around us, finding somber expressions. "Except it wasn’t destroyed, merely moved to a new planet, which I now know to be in Trixone space."

He looked at me.

"I'm glad you came. I'm old. I may look like I'm in my prime, but I've been single handedly keeping this space safe for a very long time now, and the constant use of major magic takes its toll on the body. Outwardly I know I look about sixty, but I feel the weight of being over the century. The average for my people is around seventy, and the average for the more highly advanced societies I keep safe is toward the nineties. But where I was born, those living past fifty were rare. My own parents lived to their sixties, as did my sisters."

"Do you have family still?" asked Alison.

"Nieces and nephews only, and some grands." He looked at me. "We wanted children, but perhaps the sceptre does something to you preventing it." Aline next to me frowned. "Doctor Carter is doing tests. And it may be the ravages of time travel which crushed our hopes. In any case, my life has been full acting as protector of this space."

I sighed. I had a feeling where this was going.

From the monument he led us to an old style monorail, several cars seeming to be waiting for us. It joined what seemed to be a series of city loops, spiraling inwards, and we enjoyed a sightseeing tour of something almost out of our own history. The city itself had layers, the outer ones being the most advanced. The center layer was now a museum, and the last station stopped us on the outskirts of what must have been the original village.

Thorn led us down the main street, pointing out important buildings, and outside one of them, several people were waiting. Thorn announced this was the original town hall, and introduced the current Mayor.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.