Starship X-15 by Alan Vanmeter

Author:Alan Vanmeter [Vanmeter, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781517718220
Amazon: 1517718228
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

We make our first camp about fifty meters from the ship, near the tree line. The trees are similar looking to pine trees, in that they have needles instead of leaves, but that is where the similarity ends. Many trunks reach into the sky from each base, giving some really bizarre shapes. We hear insects, and some bird calls, then we even see some very colorful green birds flying away from us. By the time the yellow sun sets, we still haven’t seen any other life-forms than these.

Breakfast is the same as dinner was, baby food in a tube, and some water. Because we don’t even have a tarp to cover us, we slept under the stars, but stars that are totally unfamiliar to me. Rick seems to be in good spirits, better than I am, as I’m just a tad bit grumpy this morning.

“You snore like a damned Harley Davidson idling, asshole.” I let into him just for sport, and to relieve my tensions. “From now on you’re sleeping outside of camp.”

“If you say so.” He is calm, and that just lights my fuse.

“I do, I mean it!”

“Sure, no problem. Sorry if I kept you awake last night.”

“You’re going to have to find something for us to eat real quick like Mister. We don’t have all that much of the baby food.” I keep after him.

“I’m going to see if there are any fish in the river. It looks like it’s only a couple kilometers down to where its’ head waters begin. Maybe I can spear some of them.” He offers with a smile.

The smile disarms me, and I nod in approval. After he eats, he takes the multi-purpose knife from the tool kit, and heads off. We are both still wearing our pressure suits, with the helmet off. The suits are water proof, and extremely durable, at least Star Command got that right. It’s quiet in camp now, and I look around. What the hell am I going to do? Have to do something, I can’t rely on Rick for everything. That’s it; I’ll build a fire. We need a constant fire from now on. Last night we were both too tired to even care.

I head into the trees in search of fire wood. There is plenty right near the camp, so I start bringing bundles back. Next I know I need some kindling, and tinder, so off I go. Once I get a fire pit made from rocks around the area, then I build my wood tee-pee, with a smaller tee-pee of kindling inside the bigger wooden one, and a bunch of tinder inside the smaller tee-pee. Now all I need is a lighter, or matches.

Okay, I’ve searched everything three times completely, and there isn’t one lighter, or one match at all. Now I am really pissed at the clown who organized the ship’s contents.

“Come on!” I yell to the trees.

There’s nothing! No flint, no magnifying lens, nothing. I did see a show on pioneer skills once, and they showed how to make a fire by rubbing two sticks together.

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