Legacy Fleet: Mississippi Burning (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Drew Avera

Author:Drew Avera [Avera, Drew]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

One month later:

He stood with his hands in his pockets as the small crowd of media personnel formed around him. Thirty days was a long time in most people’s eyes, but the nightmares of the Swarm attacking Vira Station on its way to Earth rang through Prime Minister Geraldo’s mind. I haven’t had a descent night’s sleep since, he thought as he rubbed his dry eyes with one hand, the other gripped into a tight fist in his pocket. What can I say to settle the minds of the survivors when I can’t settle my own doubts and worries?

Geraldo cleared his throat and the murmuring crowd quieted. He looked to his secretary, Lindsay, and the other man nodded. It was time.

“I have nothing new to tell you that you don’t already know,” he started. “The Swarm returned and we were powerless to defeat them. If you look to the sky you will see the void of pinkish sky as the light reflects off our three moons. That void used to inhabit Vira Station, it used to be a beacon for our society to reach beyond our system and back home to Earth, but now it is gone. Are we alone? In a way; yes, but from the dark side of our planet we found hope. We are blessed to have Lasister Station slowly burning closer to us to help with radio transmissions, but life as we knew it is over. The devastation of our eastern settlements as Vira fell to the ground is the largest disaster to take place on Corla in human history.

“The Swarm took more from us than just a bustling number of our population and our most important station, though. They took our security.”

Geraldo stopped reading his notes as they scrolled alone the teleprompter. His hands left his pockets and settled on the podium before him. There were no more words to say in his prewritten speech that said what he wanted to get off his chest. Lindsay stepped closer, but Geraldo narrowed his eyes at him, causing the man to stop. The secretary’s eyes widened when he looked at Geraldo as if something was wrong, but he obeyed the unspoken order to stay where he was. There is something wrong, Geraldo thought, and that’s why we’re here. He gripped the hard, native wood which was handcrafted for the first Prime Minister of Corla generations ago. The seal of his position etched into the top reminded him that he was leader of Corla whether he wanted it or not. His charge was for the security of these people, the security that the Swarm snuffed out in less than an hour.

“They tried to take our hope,” he said, breaking his silence. He could hear the air let out of the room as his words fell on the ears of his people. The people who witnessed the crippling grip of annihilation as it choked their world. Why were we spared? Why did the Swarm not finish the job? Those were the unanswered questions that kept him up at night.

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