Skylar Mars and the Crystal Claw by Drew Seren

Author:Drew Seren [Seren, Drew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mystichawker Press
Published: 2018-02-19T22:00:00+00:00

13

Glacier City

A COLUMN of smoke rose up from the horizon as Felonia drove the hover car across the sheer ice plain. The wind had whipped up great piles of snow.

“You’ve got to be careful,” Solaria said as they continued. “It’s easy to get stuck in one of the snow drifts if you aren’t paying attention to what you’re doing. Since they’re constantly moving in the wind, there’s no way to map them.”

Skylar said. “With any luck, I won’t get caught out here without either one of your folks or Phil driving.” He knew how to pilot a hover car—his mother had been teaching him right before the attack on Hummassa. He just didn’t have a lot of experience doing it, let alone in a frozen, constantly changing environment.

Felonia said. “She’s giving good advice—you don’t know when you might be alone, or one of us might be injured. If you aren’t careful out here you could get stuck and freeze to death, even with an envirosuit on. Their passive power systems only last so long.”

“Right.” Skylar shuddered. “I’ll remember that.”

“If that happened, I might be able to find a way to share the warmth from my ring with you,” Filzbalm added. “We really don’t want to die out here.”

“No, we don’t.”

“That’s looking really bad.” Solaria pointed to the rising smoke, growing darker with each second they flew toward the destroyed city.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Felonia said.

“Hummassa looked like this after the Boarisk attack,” Skylar said. “Or at least Cordnisar, the city where I lived, did. It was horrible.”

“Any kind of attack is horrible,” Felonia said. “We have to be strong and see what we can do to save the survivors.” Her com beeped and she tapped it to answer.

A hologram of Aniu hovered above her wrist. “We’re on the south side of the city. Phil managed to get hold of the Intergal Rescue team a couple of systems over. They’ll be here shortly. They were close to their stargate. More are coming soon. We’ve got the initial tents set up.”

“Right,” Felonia said, and turned the wheel. For a second the hologram stretched across the hover car, then went back to normal as her hand returned to a flat position.

“Over there.” Solaria pointed toward something Skylar couldn’t see.

“I’ve got you,” Felonia said. “We’ll be there shortly.”

“See you soon.” Aniu’s image looked grim, then vanished.

“With the local coms down, some of the scanners might not be getting good readings,” Felonia said. “So we’re going to be relying more on our own minds and our observational skills than technology. Skylar, don’t push yourself too hard. Solaria said you’re a little behind most kids your age as far as using your psychic gifts.”

He glared at Solaria, but kept his tone level. “I’ve learned a lot.”

“Well, this’ll be a major learning experience for you. A bit like what you were doing last night with Phil, but this time we know there are dead, and we also know there are survivors. The goal is finding the survivors and getting them to medical help.

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