Kepler Moon Alpha: Colonization (Book One) (Colonization Project 1) by Scott McElhaney

Author:Scott McElhaney [McElhaney, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Superluminal Publishing
Published: 2015-09-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

We still rode the ATVs to the beach that evening to tear up the sand and the surf, but it wasn’t quite the same after the incident in the shed. His mind was elsewhere and although he pretended to be enjoying himself, I knew he ultimately wasn’t as carefree as he once was. It actually hurt me to see him this way. I finally suggested a way that we could have a little fun while investigating his dilemma at the same time. And by that, I meant that we could damage the bikes intentionally while riding along the paths. Then we could park the vehicles by the back deck where we would sit out all night and keep watch for whomever came along to fix them. He considered this idea of mine for a moment and then conceded.

Nightfall wasn’t too far off, so we took to the trails right away, making no efforts to avoid the trees. We took the turns sharply, drifting and sliding as we kicked up clouds of dirt. It wasn’t unusual for an ATV to come in contact with a tree or a cliff face on these speedy turns. On one instance, I completely rolled my bike, tearing off one of the rubber handle grips and cracking a fender. I wasn’t hurt at all because I could feel by the way the bike lurched that I was about to lose control. I leapt off the bike before it flipped, lightly scraping my elbow and the palm of my hand in the process. Zane was at my side almost instantly, helping me up and pouring some cool water from his water bottle over my light abrasions. It took a few minutes for me to finally convince him that I was truly alright and completely willing to ride some more. After that, we rolled my bike back onto all four wheels and hit the trails again.

By the time we returned to the house, it was already dark out and Kepler was high in the sky offering us a significant amount of its ‘lunar light’. While I knew this term to be incorrect, I often used it as a description for the evening light provided by Kepler. When you come from a race that is accustomed to a moon reflecting the sun’s light onto your world at night, you get phrases like ‘lunar light’. Only now we were living on the moon, and Kepler was the lifeless orb which so happened to be classified as a planet. I didn’t think ‘planetary light’ really had the same effect or carried the same romantic qualities, so I would have to stick with old fashioned references.

Both of the bikes were covered in mud and each had at least one cracked or busted fender and the headlight had busted off on Zane’s ATV. We rode them both up to the base of the deck where we parked them for the night.

“I need to shower,” I said, brushing some of the dried mud

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