Starbearer (Shades Space Opera Book 3) by Rock Forsberg

Author:Rock Forsberg [Forsberg, Rock]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spit City Publishing
Published: 2020-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Berossus stepped out of the alien spaceship’s hatch, which, unlike an actual hatch, was more like an opening between two boughs. There was a soft smell in the air, something he couldn’t place, and somehow the air felt different with no wind at all. Beside their ship rose the massive black construction of an alien ship which, resting on the ground instead of floating in space, looked heavier, as if it were part of the rock from deep beneath. Behind them loomed Grangar, the surface of which seemed flush with lightning storms. The opening between the boughs closed behind him.

Oberen was already off the ship with Efia and was scratching the surface with his boot. Black dust came off. ‘This is interesting. Wonder if we dug a hole in here, how far it would go?’

‘Looking at this plane, I’d guess forever,’ Berossus said.

Oberen squinted at the ground as he stepped around. ‘I think it’s just a metre, if that.’

‘What’s below? Nothing?’

‘There is probably something.’

Efia stepped between them. ‘You’re both right. What I got from the readings on the ship, and what I feel standing here, is there’s nothing but a flat layer of black rock beneath us—’

‘What did I say?’ Oberen said.

‘But if you were to dig anywhere, it would stretch down kilometres, or infinitely.’

‘How?’ Berossus and Oberen asked, as one.

‘This place seems infinite, but I feel it’s an illusion. It comes to be only when it’s needed, saving resources, or directing them to what is important.’

‘Heathen place,’ Oberen muttered.

The massive spaceship beside them had no discernible access points for humans, at least not that Berossus found, neither was he able to see any windows. ‘How do we get in?’

‘Follow me,’ Efia said, and began walking towards the massive ship before them.

Now, in the strange Remolan atmosphere, Efia looked even more out of place than she had in Tabou. But Berossus and Oberen followed.

Berossus wondered if it was because of what Efia had done to him, or whether he had always heard the voice inside his brain when he went berserk, and just forgotten all about it. The voice scared him. It was as if someone else took control, and without question, someone or something did. When he came to his senses, everyone around him was splattered, and he recalled nothing after the fact. If something like that had happened with Evie—

He should have thought of Mianea. Why did he think of Evie? Was it the message she had sent?

While most of the ship’s bottom was rounded, Efia led them to a spot where the ship’s wall rose ninety degrees from the ground. She raised her arms and suddenly the boughs moved, and a door appeared.

Oberen checked the makeshift weapon in his hands. ‘Are you sure?’

‘Tread carefully,’ Efia said.

They had entered an upward-sloping corridor of similar design as the ship they had captured. Black boughs curled around each other with dim green lights shining from in between.

The corridor stretched surprisingly far into the ship like a pipe and ended with a doorway similar to the one through which they had entered.

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