Rogue Shepherd: The Hornet's Nest: Rogue Shepherd Space Opera Series Prequel by Chris Vaughn

Author:Chris Vaughn [Vaughn, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Good Lord Publishing
Published: 2016-11-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

While the batteries charged Luke told Sorley of how he helped his father with they transported the cattle of their slow cattle transports. Sorley talked of the old days and his fights in the Wars of The Flight. His eyes gleamed, and the wrinkles seemed to vanish to Luke as the old man's voice lost the gravel in his speech. Sorley repeated to him different battles and the overall story of the Twelve Clans again. Stories Luke had heard hundreds of times before from his father were repeated to him again. Any boy of devoted parents of El-Gibhor had these stories rehearsed to them almost weekly and were shown the ancient charts and maps of the Twelve Clans. Stories that traced their flight from captivity, to their taking possession of the kingdoms and planets promised to them by El-Gibhor.

Only once did Sorley mention the fighting priests and the special powers of their weapons, and clothing. Luke pressed him for more information on those, but Sorley was quick to say that a boy of his age wasn’t prepared for such knowledge, and only those of the anointed priesthood could know the deep secrets of the special weapons of the priests.

“Is there anything you can tell me?” Luke begged.

“The only thing I will tell you is this. Put your faith and trust more in El-Gibhor than anything else you can ever search for or find. More than weapons. More than sabers. More than ships… and more than yourself,” Sorley finished and let the words sink in before Luke broke the silence.

Luke asked, “Then if you won't tell me of the priests, tell me how you could scare away the hornets. Was that you with the scream, and the flashes of light?”

“It was I who asked for the intervention, but again Luke. The gift of that, and all things, come from El-Gibhor,” Sorley answered.

“Then you have that gift?” Luke pressed again with a question.

Sorley peered at the battery indicator and said, “Luke you have that gift, everyone can have His gifts. The only thing needed is faith in El-Gibhor, and the humility to ask.”

The response was more of a riddle for Luke than an answer, but Luke put the words back in his thoughts to think over after he got home to his father. “Well if El-Gibhor can deliver you, and me, from the hornets and this cave, then I want to ask him to deliver me from the anger of my father.”

Sorley cleared his throat, “Luke, I’ve told you before, that I have to talk to your father concerning this issue. I’ve known your father for many years, and I will have to tell him how I found you in the cave.”

Luke slumped back in his chair and looked out the window at the torn sail soaking up the lone ray of light.

“Sorley.”

“Yes young Shepherd.”

“Where did you live before you lived in the caves here on Bethel 5?” Luke asked.

Luke continued to watch the ion sail flap in the breeze of the cave in a lone streak of light.

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