Starburst: A Seeders Universe Novel by Dean Wesley Smith

Author:Dean Wesley Smith [Smith, Dean Wesley]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: WMG Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2017-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Echo and Cole sat over the dinner she had cooked. Chicken breasts in a light garlic sauce with steamed potatoes and some corn. She had to admit, this meal had turned out better than she had hoped. The sauce was a lot lighter.

The evening felt normal, which Echo loved. Even their cats were asleep in their normal places in the living room area.

It now had been a month since all the ancients had been kicked from all the Starburst ships and safeguards set up through the breadcrumb trail back to the Milky Way to let none of them through again.

Everything on all twenty Starburst ships seemed to have returned to a normal pace and the loss of friends and the hurt of being betrayed was fading. Seeders never forgot anything, so the memory wouldn’t leave any of them. But they could get past it.

And it seemed most were.

Echo could feel herself putting the hurt and loss of JP away.

As of today, fifty-two of the seeded areas had been explored by the twenty ships. All of the ancient seeded areas were exactly the same. The human populations had vanished a long, long time before. At almost the exact same time in history.

“We’re wasting our time now looking at all these seeded areas,” Cole said, finishing off the last of his chicken. Then he pointed to his empty plate. “That was wonderful.”

He took a sip of the oaked chardonnay she had picked out to go with the sauce and dinner and nodded, holding up the glass. “And this is perfect as well.”

“Thank you,” she said, smiling. “Going to have to remember how I did that sauce.”

“Please,” he said.

“So what do you suggest we do next?” Echo asked, finishing off the last of her chicken as well and letting it sort of melt in her mouth.

“I think we pull in all scout ships,” Cole said, “and all twenty of us head for the first logical location where we think all these people would have gone.”

She nodded and sipped her wine. She liked the idea, but it worried her on a number of levels, not the least of which was what they would find when they got there. Assuming they figured out correctly where millions of galaxies of humans had vanished to.

“Not agreeing?” Cole asked.

“Not disagreeing,” Echo said. “Just worried. Feels like there is something we are missing.”

She had no idea what that might be, but everything about this entire mission felt off.

“I agree,” Cole said, taking a sip of his wine and then standing and starting to clean up the dishes. She just sat and sipped on her wine.

“What is haunting me is that Ray and Tacita said that the ancients were scared when we discovered no humans here,” Echo said. “It was what they had been afraid of.”

“That bothered me as well,” Cole said as he moved the dishes toward the dishwasher near the sink. “But why I have no idea.”

Cole worked in silence as she sipped on the wine.

Finally she

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