Norton, Andre - Solar Queen 01 by Norton Andre

Author:Norton, Andre [Norton, Andre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-08-15T15:51:08+00:00

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"Come on in-but take it slow!"

They converged on the bubble, slipping from cover and racing across the clearing to new protections. But the tent might be deserted for all the attention their actions aroused. Mura reached the structure first, his sensitive fingers searching for the sealing catch. When the flap peeled down, all of them stared in.

The bubble was only an empty shell. None of its interior partitions had been put into place, even the tilo-floor was missing, so that bare rubble of the field showed.

And there was not a box or bag of all the supplies which had been brought from the Queen present in that wide space.

"A fake!" Kosti spluttered. "This was set up just to make us think-"

"That they were still here," Wilcox finished for him. "Looks that way, doesn't it?"

"Passing over here in a flitter," Rip murmured, "we'd believe everything was just as it should be. But where are they?"

Mura resealed the bubble's flap. "Not here," he announced as if that were a new discovery. "But, Mr. Wilcox, did not the crawler attempt to proceed past this area? Perhaps it knows far more than we have given it credit for-"

Wilcox fingered the throat strap of his helmet. About them the fog was fading-though far more slowly than it had descended. His eyes went from the bubble to the mist beyond. Perhaps if Ali had not been involved he would have ordered a return to the Queen. But now, after a pause, he switched on the crawler's motor once more.

The machine circled around the bubble and kept on. There were clumps of vegetation appearing now-the tough grass, the stunted bushes. And knobs of rock slanting up signalled their approach to the foothills.

Here the fog which was thinning on the plains curdled again, shutting down until they bunched about the crawler in a tight cluster, each man within arms-distance of his fellows.

That feeling of being spied upon, of being dogged by something they could not see grew strong once more. Underfoot the ground became rougher. But Kosti pointed out other tracks, rutted in the soft patches of soil, indications that they were on a road the crawler had used before.

As the mist thickened they strained ears and eyes-but they saw nothing but each other and their machine guide. And what they heard they could not believe.

"Look out!" Rip grabbed at Dane, jerking him back just in time to avoid a painful

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