Iq'her: Science Fiction Adventure Romance (Conquered World Book 10) by Elin Wyn

Author:Elin Wyn [Wyn, Elin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clockwalk Publishing
Published: 2019-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

Iq’her

What little bit of food that Stasia and I had found was gone. Everyone got a small bit, but not enough to satisfy anyone’s hunger. I, despite my own training, was feeling the effects of little to no food, as well. However, I was confident that I was much more able to survive no rations longer than any of these humans.

So far, nearly the entire group had gone out one time or another to look for food. Some people had brought back things they claimed were edible, then immediately spat out the food or retched after eating it.

Soon enough the people of the cities would also be hungry. The farmers were already complaining about their crops failing.

I thought back to my meeting with Rouhr before any of this happened. We had talked about how we were going to need to rely on the food synthesizers before too long, and how they were going to be woefully inadequate for the population of the planet.

I thought about the synthesizers we had already installed and used within Glymna, Duvest, Einhiv, and Nyheim. They provided food for at least half of each city’s population, but they relied on the minerals and scraps that were put into them to create the food we ate. If there was no natural food to put into the synthesizers, we would soon be eating food pellets.

They would keep people alive, if only barely, but they had absolutely no flavor and no satisfaction to them. Not to mention that the food pellets would run out eventually. I hoped my estimates were still on the mark. We had less than a year of food left for the entire planet.

The only hope we had when it came to using the synthesizers would be to finish dismantling the Aurora and use every available piece to create as many synthesizers as possible. That would give us another six months to a year if we remained on strict rationing.

A lot of people would end up very thin before this was all done.

“We need to come up with a plan,” Roddik said, surprisingly calm. “We have no food, can’t find any, and we need to figure out what we’re going to do before we start starving to death.”

There was silence for a few minutes. “Come on!” Roddik yelled, his usual anger returning in force.

I nearly chuckled as the prospect of Roddik being calm lasted a grand total of three minutes. Must have been a record for him while conscious.

Some ideas began flowing, and they were all terrible.

I just wanted that monster away from Stasia. She’d been under his tyranny for far too long, and I wished to see her carefree and happy.

“We could go back to Nyheim and steal a truck,” one suggestion came out. The returning to Nyheim part was a good idea, not the stealing part.

“There’s a couple of farms nearby,” another one started. “We’ll take their food.”

Roddik seemed to like that one a bit. “Not bad, but what if they don’t have enough?”

“Better than what we have now,” that person responded.

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