The Colony by RMGilmour

Author:RMGilmour
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

16

The Spire

“I hope you can climb,” Aleric stated.

I was no longer surprised at anything they said to me, or requested of me. I used to climb trees when I was a kid, but that was about the extent of it. But like Haize said, time to be brave.

“I’m sure I can,” I responded.

“Then follow me.”

He took me in through the trees and we followed the line south and then south-east to where the trees grew to their enormous size. The base of one was almost the size of the tree hut! I looked up, to gauge how tall it may have been but the foliage was too thick.

Aleric stopped before a tree of similar size, whose branches began to divide lower down. Well, at least it wasn’t a building, or a cliff. A tree, I was sure I could handle. To my right was the field of graves we’d dug the previous day, but the holes were now covered over as though they didn’t exist.

“Climbed a tree before?”

I nodded, turning back to him and the tree, but never anything this size and I wondered how far up we would be going.

He chuckled, “Just step where I step.”

I watched him climb the lower limbs, placing my hands and feet where he had; my boots provided traction on the thinning branches as I reached higher up. I looked down only one time during the climb, to see that we were already a fair way up, and I realized it was as easy as it used to be when I was a kid. Climbing a tree, it seemed, was like riding a bike, the skill-set needed returned when necessary.

As we neared the top, the branches began to flex beneath us. I tested each one for its stability and strength before planting my weight upon it, though Aleric didn’t seem bothered by their narrow, delicate size.

He soon stopped, and as I climbed up the last few branches, he pulled me to the top to stand next to him.

“Wow!” I breathed, as I looked about me. On one side of me beyond the fields and the hills, was desert, the heated air waving to me. And far off in the distance, barely a glinting spec, was the dome. On the other side of me was the mirrored wall, reflecting its sinister-looking, rainbow patches in the sunshine.

We still weren’t anywhere near high enough to see over the top of the wall, but we could see through it, and we were well above the roofline.

The city stretched on for miles inside. I scanned northward and then across to the east, but the wall did not end, it just went on and on. And I would never have guessed how far across the landscape the city sprawled. It seemed endless. Inside, there were numerous structures all of them white, different shapes, low to the ground, and all perfectly situated next to one another. There had to be millions of people residing behind those walls, and somewhere amongst them was Jordan.

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