Allure of Oartheca: Book One of the Oarthecan Star Saga by James Siewert
Author:James Siewert [Siewert, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J. Siewert
Published: 2021-05-29T22:00:00+00:00
I wake up, groggy, confused, and increasingly furious with every moment that passes.
My head is pounding and thereâs a weakness throughout my entire body; itâs fading but it takes me a moment or two to realize that Iâm lying on my back. Itâs initially dark, but thereâs a light coming from somewhere, yet my eyes are taking their time to adjust. The air is damp, hot, and unpleasantly unfamiliar; I still canât smell anything but I have the feeling that if I could, this air would stink.
Iâve got a blanket on me thoughâone of the scratchy ones from the shuttleâand my headâs resting on something soft. As my eyes adjust, I find myself looking at the craggy surface of a rock ceiling, and the source of the faint light is somewhere to my leftâas I turn my head, I can see that Iâm indeed just slightly inside of a cave, a few metres from a rough open wound that forms its entrance. I can see a dull red sky, cloudless but oppressive and heavy.
I pull my blanket off and sit up, slowlyârealising that Iâm desperately thirsty in addition to being discombobulated. As I do so, I find that Iâm lying on our shuttleâs gurney, collapsed so itâs resting near to the ground, and my head had been resting on another blanket folded over to form a pillow. Iâve obviously been placed here with a degree of careâand as I look around the small rocky foyer where I was laid down, I can see that Iâve been left with most of the supply crates we had on board as well. Our comms beacon is resting on top of one, and on one side, propped in front of it, is my personal touchpad. On the other side is a sachet of purified water from our emergency supplies. This little shrineâs been set up directly in my line of sight out of the cave, so I wouldnât miss it.
Despite his obvious care to make me comfortable, itâs hard for me not to be enraged at Rowland for what heâs done to me, wherever the Eternal-damned place heâs left me is. I should have known not to trust himâheâs proven time and time again that dealing with me honestly is just not a possibilityâthis is his third betrayal of my trust in as many chances Iâve given him to earn it: he stole my ship, he lied about giving it back, and now heâs drugged me, when my back was turned, no less. True colours, indeed. Crafty, deceitful liar. The little thief, as much as I didnât want him to be.
I grab the water and puncture the top of it with my claw-tip, guzzling its contents down in a few mouthfuls, trying both to wash the stale taste from my mouth and parch my thirst. I grab the touchpad, momentarily tempted to thwart whatever plan Rowland has for me by launching it out of the cave with all the force I can put behind
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