Defying Gravity by Cherie Reich

Author:Cherie Reich [Reich, Cherie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Surrounded by Books Publishing
Published: 2012-02-08T04:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

The hairless primates’ heavy footsteps pounded along the earthen tunnel. Were they coming to bring more food? Despite its terrible taste, he was hungry. Healing drained his energy, and he needed nourishment to have the strength to escape.

Would his space cruiser fly him out of here, though?

He thought back to the crash, how the craft skimmed through a graveyard of buildings. This planet was so like his own. There was an opened space, and he set the ship down amongst a bed of dead grass. Could he find it again? He didn’t know, but if he could get to the spaceship and if he could start the engine—where he would find the power to electrify the sphere, he didn’t know—then he could flee this forsaken excuse of a planet.

If, if, if! If he could have a coin for every if . . .

The steps thumped closer. Would they pass by his cell? Please, don’t let them come for me. He needed more time.

He slithered over to the cell’s barred door. Two men neared him, and he caught a glimpse of gold drifting between them. No, not quite gold, more wheat-blond in color. A soft moan passed through the creature’s lips, and he spotted antennae sticking out through the hair. Her flesh was blue. Her eyes were closed, but he bet they were golden like the sun.

Anger, pity, and hope swirled within him as a dangerous cocktail threatening to boil over. She—well, technically her people—were the reason his ship had slipped into a wormhole and crashed here. The Perseans had ruined his people’s lives enough, but he remembered that surprised glance when she realized how her own people had betrayed her. The way her eyes widened just so. Pouty lips puffed into an “O.” She’d never survive this place, and at that moment, he wanted to protect her from this world’s horrors.

Please don’t take her far.

The men stopped in a cell beside his own, and his hope surged. Seconds later, she was discarded in what he would guess would be a forgotten heap upon the dirt floor. Was she injured? Would she wake soon?

The Perseans had powers, although he didn’t know exactly what they were. The stories were vague and scary. Gifts involving the dead.

But he’d give anything to have someone on his side right now, even a Persean.

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