Stargate SG-1 20 - Heart's Desire by Amy Griswold

Author:Amy Griswold [Griswold, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Some hours later, the weather had only worsened, although Keret insisted that it should be better once they turned to the south and put the backbone of the ridge between them and the wind. Jack wrestled with the airship’s rudders, hoping that the stiffness of their response was because the steering column was cold and not because the rudders themselves were jammed with ice. He wasn’t sure what to do about that short of climbing over the side to try to knock it loose, which didn’t appeal to him at the moment. Maybe Keret would volunteer for that. Or maybe Jack could volunteer him.

Keret had taken a turn at the helm, with a great many complaints that Jack was going to kill them with his reckless flying. Jack wished Teal’c were there, for a lot of reasons starting with the desire to have a third pilot he trusted implicitly and ending with the fact that Teal’c could probably wrench the damn rudder controls around without having to throw his shoulder against them bruisingly hard. Somewhere in the middle was the fact that Teal’c probably knew something about the Goa’uld technology this ship was using.

Carter seemed to have figured out what made it tick for the moment, and he trusted that she’d keep it running if anyone could, but he hated trusting himself to technology they barely understood. Of course, they did a lot of that. While a lot of Carter’s explanations of wormhole physics went over his head, the ones that didn’t had made it clear that every time they stepped through the Stargate, they were trusting themselves to a combination of unproven theory and luck.

The one mercy was that the gate builders had apparently wanted to make the Stargates idiot-proof, and most of the time they were. The times they weren’t were the problem. Which he was probably thinking about because one of those times had left them stranded in an ice cave in Antarctica, and right now it felt about that cold.

A flash of lightning strobed across the sky, illuminating the driving snow and the dark shapes of mountains, and then a crack of thunder followed it far too quickly for comfort. He’d flown in worse, and for that matter parachuted in worse, but that wasn’t any guarantee that this was going to end well.

He still felt a sneaking sense of exhilaration at their sheer speed, the wind whipping snow into his face. With the pull of gravity still making the deck seem to slant sharply down under his feet, it felt a little like sledding, although he was pretty sure he’d never gotten away with sledding in a driving storm with thunder crashing wildly around him as a kid.

He flipped open the cover of the speaking tube, hoping Carter would be able to hear him over the howling of the wind. “How’s it going down there?”

“It’s going!” she yelled. “The power interface is a little—whoa!”

He thought he heard an electrical snap in the background, but was

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.