Orion's Fall by Cheree Alsop

Author:Cheree Alsop [Alsop, Cheree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Zyla

Zyla shut the door to her room, then leaned against it. Most of the crew of the Circinus shared the crew bunk rooms in the decks below. The fact that Captain Dawes had given Orion a private room like she had was a testament to all he had done and all Uncle Demetri thought he would do. It was a lot of pressure, and she hoped Orion could handle it.

The question was whether he wanted to. This wasn’t Orion’s fight, much the same as the Volters battle wasn’t Demetri’s until the tragic day that had changed him completely. She had only heard whispers of her uncle’s doings, but tales of Captain Dawes and the Circinus raged alongside those of the fiercest Revolters. He wouldn’t give up until both ruling classes fell.

But was it fair to include Orion in that battle? No matter where he came from, she had the distinct impression he wasn’t from the same place as she. He spoke with a subtle lilt that didn’t match any accent she had ever heard, and everything from the orbs to the solar sails to the birds who flew alongside the ships drew his attention in a way that told her he was seeing them for the first time. It made no sense, but she knew in her heart that he was a stranger in her world.

She sighed and sat on her bed. The feeling of the blanket beneath her fingers was soothing. It was one of Aunt Lisandra’s, patched together in the pattern the woman had loved so much. The fact that Uncle Demetri had put it on her bed the day before wasn’t lost on her, and she loved him all the more for it.

It had been such a tragedy when he lost his true love. The Battle of Oversea was the first war to overthrow the ruling class, but the branded and citizens had been outmatched horribly by the Airborne Defense and many ships had been burned.

Uncle Demetri’s was one of those. He had been forced to watch from a Solariat Warship as his crew and his love went up in flames. His determination to steal from the ruling classes and provide the Revolters and citizens with what they needed to survive had changed him into a risk-taking pirate. When the stars aligned according to the Orion prophecy, Zyla’s father had begged him to breech the great ruling ship. Zyla still didn’t know why her uncle had turned his brother down. She tried to keep her resentment at bay, especially in light of her rescue, but it lingered deep inside.

Stories from the chaos that erupted the day the Orion didn’t fall had been slow to reach Zyla. Freshly branded and chained in the tradition newly branded were in order to confirm their loyalty, she had been stuck in the galley of the Taurus for weeks without word of the outside world. Alone with the pain of losing her father, Zyla was at her very lowest.

She wondered if that was why the dreams of Orion came so powerfully or felt so insistent.

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