STARGATE ATLANTIS: Unascended (Legacy book 7) by Unascended (SGA-22; Legacy Book 7)
Author:Unascended (SGA-22; Legacy, Book 7) [Retail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2020-06-18T14:39:49+00:00
Chapter Ten
Lorne strolled out of the Stargate and looked around the barren plateau. âSo, this is our potential alpha site. What are we looking at here?â
âNothing. Nada,â Sgt. Anthony said. âThe science teamâs survey report checks out. You got your cactus, your little lizardsââ
Lorne squinted at the bushes. âPoisonous lizards?â
âSir, I have to ask, why does everybody assume theyâre poisonous lizards? Why is it that when we report that weâve seen foot-high cactus, everyone asks âbut does it have poisonous spines that kill you if you touch themâ?â
âActually, those would be venomous lizards,â PFC Harper said, tugging at one corner of the tent that she and two of the other Marines were setting up. âPoisonous is when it kills you if you eat them. Venomous is when it kills you if it bites you.â
Anthony gave her a suspicious look. âHow do you know that?â
âI listened to the briefing when we got here, Sergeant.â
âYou also probably heard in the briefing when you got here that planets with Stargates that arenât inhabited are usually uninhabited for a reason,â Lorne pointed out.
âWeâre in the middle of a desert,â Sgt. Anthony said. âPlus the Stargate is on top of a big shelf of rock, and if you want to go anywhere else, you have to rappel down a cliff and then hike across several more klicks of desert before you get to â wait for it â more desert.â
âIt canât all be desert,â Harper said.
âActually, it is,â Lorne said. âUp near the poles, itâs colder desert.â
âWe took a jumper up and scanned for life signs. We didnât find anything bigger than your shoe. The only sign anyoneâs ever been here is some carvings in the rocks up here. We took pictures of them for the archaeologists, and weâre not going to set up the alpha site on top of them.â
âShow me the carvings,â Lorne said.
Anthony led him some distance across the rocky tableland to a spot where several large boulders might â or might not â have originally been dragged together into an intentional grouping. Several of them were chiseled with a series of crosses or Xâs above with what was probably lettering. It wasnât any Pegasus alphabet he recognized, and heâd seen a lot of them by now.
âAnything on the lettering?â
Anthony shrugged. âNot that Iâve heard. Theyâre going to run it through the computers in case it turns out to be just another phonetic alphabet for writing Ancient.â
âAll right,â Lorne said. He turned around again, looking out at the distant horizon. The only sign of movement from this distance were some large black birds riding the thermals over the desert. âThose birds giving you any trouble?â
âTheyâre just big birds, sir.â
âTeam Sheppard ran into big birds that set a grass fire and then chased them with nets,â Lorne said. âThe Pegasus galaxy is like that.â
âNoted, sir,â Anthony said after a moment. âThese birds appear to be⦠big birds, sir. I think theyâre hunting some little mouse things. Weâve seen a couple of those. They were running away.
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