Science and Sorcery Box Set by Ryan Tang

Author:Ryan Tang [Tang, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ryan Tang
Published: 2020-07-15T22:00:00+00:00

BOOK 2: THE BROKEN HANDS

"Ready?"

Emile grinned from the pilot's seat in the center of the cockpit.

It wasn't really the pilot's seat anymore. It was technically the original, but it no longer controlled the machine. Similar luxurious cushioned chairs sat throughout the hollowed-out false Paragon. The Paragon carts were automated, designed to slide through the sky along the high wires they'd installed together. Technicians at the newly built transportation office manned the emergency brakes.

Alex's students chattered excitedly all around her. Today, the wired Paragons were packed to the brim. The whole colony would ride together before building Alex's new home, the very last one they needed to complete before the rebuild of Plenty was finally over.

"Ms. Alex's house! It's time to build Ms. Alex's house!"

"I can't believe it! So fast! We finished so fast!"

The wired Paragons were adapted from Stock's false machines, the beautiful fakes that closely resembled the legendary Paragons of Old Earth but could barely hover 10 feet in the sky. The shells had been hollowed out completely and filled with seats. They'd built windows in the arms, legs, and cockpit in the torso, so the riders could stare at the beautiful scene beneath them and marvel at the gorgeous home the citizens of Plenty had built together.

After Plenty overthrew the vicious tycoon Irl Stock during their grand battle in the library courtyard, they'd discovered hangar after hangar filled with false Paragons. Stock's corporation, Southern Robotics, had carefully built the 50-foot tall humanoid robots to resemble the legendary machines of Old Earth. The counterfeits shone as bright anything could shine without Eternium, but without the holy metal, Stock's false Paragons couldn't even stand on their own two feet. They had to lie flat on their stomachs, and they couldn't move their limbs. The arms and legs had to be set in place like they were action figures.

To compensate for his machines' shortcomings, Stock bribed the corrupt Governor of Plenty to enforce draconian house height policies, restricting all homes built in the so-called lower Blocks to a height of eight feet or less. Everyone other than Stock's handpicked favorites had been forced to live in squat ugly cubes, all packed tightly together.

Alex stared outside the window and smiled.

The cubes were gone now, along with every other stupid restriction Stock and Governor Waters had forced upon them. They'd been replaced by an eccentric beauty that was entirely unique to Plenty. As an aspiring historian, Alex had studied the societies of Old Earth, humanity's doomed birthplace, as well as the culture of the Mad Nobles, the sinful tyrants who'd once ruled mankind with an iron fist. The bounty of Old Earth far outstripped Plenty's meager resources, but Alex had never seen anything so special before, not even in the faded pictures of Old Earth's sea.

The librarian could tell who lived in each building just at a glance.

The base of the building to her right was built with bright red bricks. The traditional appearance spanned the first two floors. Flowers were planted carefully in windowsills, yellow on the left side and blue on the other.

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