(eng) Patrick Ness - Chaos Walking 0.5 by The New World
Author:The New World [World, The New]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
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The scout ship feels like itâs going to fly apart at any second. The atmosphere is bashing us around and itâs all my mother can do to keep us upright.
She calls occasionally for my dad, but thereâs still no answer.
âViola, where are we?!â she shouts, wrestling with the controls.
âWeâre coming back around!â I shout over the roar of it all. âWeâre going too fast, though. I think weâre going to overshoot it.â
âIâll try to get us down as best I can. Can you see anything on the scanners? Anything beyond that bit of the river where we can land?â
I press through my screens but theyâre jumping around as much as everything else on the ship. The engines are still firing us forward and so weâre pretty much falling towards the planet, too fast, with no way to slow ourselves down. Weâre zooming over a huge ocean right now and I can tell my mother is worried that weâll have to put down in the middle of it-
But the continentâs coming up on our screens now, looming dark as night and way too fast and suddenly weâre over it, the ground whipping by down below us.
âAre we near it?!â my mum yells.
âHold on!â I check the mapping. âWeâre south of it! About 15ks!â
She wrestles with the manual controls, trying to turn us a bit more north. âDammit!â The ship lists and I slam my elbow into the control panel, losing my maps for a second.
âMum?â I say, worry and fright in my voice as I try to bring the maps up again.
âI know, sweetheart,â she says, grunting with the controls.
âWhat about dad?â
She doesnât say anything but I can see it all on her face. âWeâve got to find a place to put down, Viola! And then weâll do everything we can to save him!â
I turn back to my maps. âLooks like a prairie of some kind first,â I say, âbut weâll probably overshoot that.â I dial through some more scans. âA swamp!â I say. My motherâs got us heading north again, back towards that river we saw, which seems to peter out into swampland.
âWill we be low enough?â my mother yells.
I dial through a few more screens and projected landing arcs. âItâll be close.â
The ship gives a huge jolt.
And then thereâs an eerie quiet.
âWeâve lost the engines,â my mother says. âThe vents never opened. The fire choked out.â She turns to me. âWeâre gliding in. Program me a flightpath and hold on tight.â
I dial quickly through a few more screens, locking in a landing arc into what Iâm hoping will be a nice soft swamp.
My mother pulls the manual controls hard with her fists, lining up her screen with the path Iâve laid out. Out the portholes I can see the ground far too clearly now, treetops getting closer and closer below us.
âMum?â I say, watching as we get lower in the sky.
âHang on!â she says.
âMUM!â
And we hit.
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