Fire by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: mobi

Chapter Five

Despite his bride being so much shorter than him, and her legs being far too skinny, Chad had to admit she had boundless energy as she followed him and up down the hillside, and in and out of the various houses. As they went he took pictures and measurements of the various houses to help them decide what plants should be grown where. One building had a very high ceiling downstairs. It was as tall as all the other houses, but had only one room upstairs leaving half the downstairs with its ceiling two stories high.

“This will be the perfect place for us to grow our trees. There’ll be no need to limit their height here. Some trees can get very tall and this is where we’ll cultivate them.”

Flame smiled at him. “I’ve walked through a forest where the trees were so tall it was almost impossible to see their tops. But those trees were very old. Some of the elders said trees can live far longer than the oldest people.”

“That’s right. I’ve heard of trees over a thousand years old, but it’s not usual.”

“What is a thousand?”

Chad smiled at his precious bride. He liked that she was curious and willing to learn, instead of just ignoring what she didn’t understand.

“I showed you twenty. Imagine if each of your fingers and toes was twenty. Even then that wouldn’t be halfway to a thousand.”

She stared at him in amazement. “That’s very old.”

“Exactly.”

His communicator beeped and he took it out to look at the screen. They were much too far from Mu Arae 7 to have contact with their home planet on their personal devices, although the spaceship still could contact their base perfectly well. It was more than thirty light years away from earth, but that was nothing for a spaceship. Their personal coms units could still be used to talk to the other warriors and to the ship itself. He’d been sending all the pictures and data he collected back to Herman on the ship. This time it was Andreas the pilot calling him.

“The men have made a big net and we’re all going fishing. We need to learn what species are available here and in what kind of quantities. Gabriel has assembled a holding tank for our catch, but we need everyone to process it quickly as some of the fish will likely eat the others and I’d prefer that we ate them ourselves.”

“We’re about halfway up the hill. We’ll be there in ten minutes or less.”

“Go straight to the shore and meet us there.”

“Yes, sir.”

He turned to look at Flame who was staring in amazement at him.

“Coms unit. Personal communications device,” he explained.

“You were also writing on it though. Old Anny can write. She taught us some things so we could recognize where we went.”

He watched as she drew a letter N in Earth language in the air. “That is used to show north, although we almost never saw signs with it on anymore. When Old Anny

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