Victory on Terra (Book 12 of The Empire of Bones Saga) by Terry Mixon

Author:Terry Mixon [Mixon, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yowling Cat Press
Published: 2020-04-17T22:00:00+00:00

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A pair of guards escorted Jared and Julia up into the tower to meet with Leader Mordechai. He wasn’t in the wide-open upper floor but down in an interior room about halfway up the tower. Someone had cut away part of an inside wall to give him a view outside the building, but he was still sheltered from any of the weather that was now coming through the shattered windows.

The man himself was seated behind a large desk, doing what looked like paperwork. The concept of that seemed almost unimaginable to Jared. This was a post-apocalyptic society. They might’ve retained some of the knowledge that they’d had from before, but the idea of working with actual paper boggled him.

As soon as they entered the room, Mordechai set aside the pen he’d been using and steepled his fingers as he considered them.

“Where’s Jebediah?” he asked, his eyebrow raised.

“He’s taken Carl to show him something,” Jared said. “He said that he’d be up as soon as he was done with that but that you could accept that he’d verified what we’d told you.”

At those words, one of the guards who’d accompanied them on the trip up stepped forward. “I overheard him, Leader Mordechai. That’s exactly what Jebediah said.”

“Then that’s good enough for me,” the older man said. “Now comes the mystery of figuring out who took our heritage from us. A theft of that magnitude is unbelievable. The effort that would’ve been required and the sheer number of people it probably took takes my breath away. The fact that they carried this out right under our noses makes me angry. Do we have any idea how they might’ve done such a thing?”

Jared reached into his pouch and retrieved the pin he’d found, placing it on the desk. “We found this in the stairwell. It looks like whoever was down there only activated the life-support system for the lowest few levels. This was on the stairs above that safe layer. Do you recognize the emblem?”

The older man picked up and examined the pin, his eyes narrowing. “It looks vaguely familiar, but I can’t say that I know how I know it.”

“It’s the emblem of the Marine Raiders. My sister intends to use something very much like it once she has more of our marines fully transitioned.

“Jebediah said that based on the corrosion, he believed it had only been down there for a few years. Since it appears to be made out of conventional materials, I’m willing to accept that he knows better than I what its durability is. That means that somewhere on the maglev train system, there’s a group of people that have some kind of association with the Marine Raiders.”

The older man leaned back in his chair and shook his head. “That idea is ludicrous on its face. The Marine Raiders stationed here didn’t last more than a few decades after the invasion.”

“Could there have been other groups?” Julia asked. “Just because you only know of one doesn’t mean that there weren’t others.

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