Dystance 3_The Edge of Deceit by Mark Tufo

Author:Mark Tufo [Tufo, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Goodreads: 52066418
Publisher: DevilDog Press
Published: 2019-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

11

Bristol

Bristol was a beehive of activity as Genogerians gathered supplies, packed ships, and continued to train. The purpose we now shared changed their demeanor. They were excited for what the future entailed. I wasn’t of the same enthusiasm. Yes, I was very much looking forward to getting back to Earth, to making sure my friends were all right, to taking revenge upon Breeson and the Iron Sides for what they had done. I was prepared to strike fear into the hearts of the Stryvers and into our new, unknown enemy, if they had one.

“Two weeks? How can it take that long?” I was out of bed the very next morning and ready to leave.

“We are moving an entire base, Winter, and Graylon is attempting to gather more allies to the cause,” Porter informed me.

Cedar was less impatient than I, but only because she’d been promised all the flight time she could manage in the time allotted. For good or bad, they did not possess flight simulators, so she was required to go off-world. I went with her mostly to learn to fly, as she had, but also because to sit there and wait was driving me crazy. The first week we had an instructor, then without warning, and seemingly without jealousy, came the moment that Sevtral said we had outdistanced her skill and that she would only be a detriment to our continued growth. We were allowed to fly solo, as it were. I stayed with Cedar another three days; she was a ferocious learner and a patient teacher. I did not at any time think I could master it with the ease she had, but I had a firm grasp of how to control the war machine. I still preferred battle on the ground, but that was highly unlikely. However, this war was won, it was going to be in space, and I was going to do all I needed to ensure we came out victorious.

“We need call signs.” Cedar was doing spins through space. I was getting nauseous watching her.

“We’ve been out here for fifteen hours; aren’t you ready to go back? I’m hungry, sis,” I told her.

“I told you to bring some food up here.”

“We are in single-seater fighters; I’m not bringing food and water. What happens when…” I left it at that.

“Hate to get into the grubby details, sis, but this suit takes care of that.”

“NO! Absolutely not!”

“Prude.” She was laughing. “That’s it! I have your call sign. I shall call you Prudence!”

“You do that, and I’ll call you the Soiler!”

“You wouldn’t dare!”

“What’s the matter? Don’t you think Serrot would like that?”

“Fine, fine…we’ll work on something else.”

“Seriously though, when are we going back?”

“Are you whining? Tell you what, we’ll have a dog fight. You beat me, we go back. You don’t, then you can get more familiar with your suit.”

“I hate you,” I growled, she laughed. The weapons had been disabled for our exercises, but the firing and the radar systems still worked, so it was essentially the same except for the explosions, the screaming, burning and/or freezing in space.

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