The Second Coming by Keith Fenwick

Author:Keith Fenwick [Fenwick, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Keith Fenwick
Published: 2014-01-04T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty Six

Myfair had always thought that he and those who kept watch on the offworlders knew almost all there was to know about them. As he became exposed to more of the offworlders as they moved aimlessly around the city Myfair began to realize that their understanding was seriously flawed. The offworlders were at the same time far more sophisticated and far more primitive than they had ever imagined.

Maybe the service crews or the section of the MPU that controlled the patrol ships and their missions was trying to tell him something? Surely, there must be some reason for their routing his craft this way? In passing, he wondered what was happening back on Skid, whether the small community at the organic plant and its idyllic life style still survived much as he had left it. Or had the technicians from the industrial centres begun to flex their muscles in an attempt to define what strength and power they had. Had some of the roving bands of desperate Skidians who in ignorance of both those communities and lived on whatever they could find come into conflict with either group and if so what was the result?

Myfair was torn between wanting to return to Skid as soon as possible, and seeing what he could learn from the offworlders since he was there on their home planet.

Myfair didn’t think that he had much to learn from their security apparatus from what he had seen of it. The offworlders didn’t seem to have the capability to deter even a service craft, let alone a fully armed long range patrol craft. Nor did their security forces seem capable of controlling a single Skidian patrol craft pilot either he thought, rather arrogantly.

The planet, this part of it anyway, seemed rich and prosperous and bustling with the sort of activity that made Skid in some respects seem like a peaceful backwater by comparison. Ground vehicles of various shapes and sizes sped by and most of the offworlders seemed to hurry about their business as if there was some purpose in their lives, though what that might be Myfair wasn’t able to tell yet.

Myfair was shocked when Watts informed him that people had to trade their efforts in return for food and shelter. There were apparently no service crews here to keep their industrial complexes operating.

This was a foreign concept to Myfair who had always lived in a society where all that an individual required to lead a satisfactory existence was provided without any form of transaction taking place; most Skidians simply existed to live.

Away from the hustle and bustle of what Myfair figured must be the centre of the city he saw much that reminded him of Skid.

Wide open spaces dotted with tidy pleasant looking homes, where offworlders strolled around and the pace appeared slower and more peaceful, more Skidlike.

Then Watts muttered something that Myfair took to mean he had made a mistake in his navigation.

“Made a wrong turn there, don't worry we should be ok.”

Myfair

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