One Thousand Wishes, One Thousand Stars (The Complex Book 0) by Katherine Rhodes

Author:Katherine Rhodes [Rhodes, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down Write Nuts
Published: 2017-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

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Three hundred years.

From star to star to star, he watched and waited. He never pressed, he never begged. He supported and cared.

Not only for his angel, but his friends. Those who called him family.

He could always be counted on. There was never a question of his loyalty. It ran deep and ran true. For three hundred years, he learned and waited and watched.

He watched me.

He waited for me.

And I did not see him.

Chapter Eight

We flew low over the high hills behind the Complex. Dodging and darting below the scans from the building, we had to make sure that we were at least a thousand klicks from the exit of the spaceport.

For safety, John took us twelve hundred klicks. Once we hit that, he pulled us straight up and hit the boosters to get us out of the atmosphere.

One might almost think that it was too easy to get out of the Complex. That for all the security inside, it was just too simple to fly off planet like we had. At the same time, though, I knew most of the residents on Lorn were not as wealthy as John and even great power and abilities didn't speak nearly as loud as money.

Still… fly that way, you'll be good? Odd, but...Probably money, again, applied at the right time to the right people.

Lorn shrank beneath us. Rexu was on the other side of the solar system this time of year, so we wouldn’t have too short of a flight. We had to make an arc pass around the sun, and just as we passed it, I saw all the stars in space appear.

“Shit, I don’t want to see that again.”

“Three hundred years was a long time to stare at those stars.” John nodded, and pursed his lips into a line.

I had to ask. “Do you think that Vaimm is gone?”

“Long gone. The last broadcast from some of the satellites came in last year. It’s destroyed itself completely. The atmosphere was starting to freeze and fall to the ground.”

That hurt to hear. It had been, in my mind for so many years, a gorgeous place of lush, verdant valleys and hills, with sweeping crystal blue oceans and stark grey peaks. That was what five-year-old me believed it still was.

We’d done the right thing for our people. I hoped.

Rexu appeared in the distant left-hand corner of the window. It was a smallish planet, but not the smallest, and we approached the side that was all water. Dark blue, oddly-tinted almost purple, it wasn’t exactly welcoming. John’s expert flying skills dove us straight for the center of the ocean, and at the last second, pulled up and had us skimming the surface. The shockingly clear water revealed a surface full of animals. Raxu wasn’t known for the depth of its ocean—and its rich and delicious sea life.

“Where am I heading?”

I pulled out my handheld. “I have her last known address, and we can start there.”

“How did you get that?”

I smiled. “Brami. Doing what every little kid does.

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