Hena Day One by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Bell, Odette C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Linh

Linh continued to battle through the forest, Harry behind her.

She could feel him slipping further into desperation with every second.

It wasn’t just what she’d revealed to him. It was the constant sound of jets scrambling overhead, interspersed every five minutes with a certain sound. One that rang out over the jungle and shook down through everything, one sharp enough to burst human eardrums.

She would make him kneel down on his knees and clamp his hands over his head several seconds before the blast would ring out.

She didn’t bother protecting herself.

There was no point.

“How much… how much—” Harry began, but lost track of his conversation as once again a jet scrambled overhead.

“How much longer until we reach my vessel? About 10 minutes. If it’s still there.”

“What does that mean?”

“That other aliens might’ve picked it dry already.”

“Aliens?” His voice shook. “You mean the invaders?”

“No, I mean other aliens like me. Crash landers or people who got beyond the Fold for some other purpose. Though I tried over the years to hide the signal of my ship, who knows what kind of other aliens are on Earth and what their capabilities are.”

“… You mean there are more like you?”

She snorted. “Of course there are. I’ve seen a few, here and there. Felt them, too – if they weren’t good at hiding themselves.”

“Do they control the world?” Harry asked out of the blue.

Though it was hardly a laughing situation, Linh couldn’t help herself, and she paused, her hand pushing away a large jungle vine. She tilted her head back and laughed. “Definitely not. You humans love your conspiracy theories.”

“Why not, though? If they have… technology better than ours, and if they can… if they can do that,” Harry said as he brought a shaking hand up and pointed at the sky, indicating the massive cloud stack that was now pushing high into the furthest reaches of the atmosphere, “why wouldn’t they control the world?”

Linh pressed her lips together. There was only so much more Harry could take. If she kept inundating the poor man with more information it wouldn’t just shatter his world, it would shatter his sanity, too.

But he’d asked, and Linh was not one to keep facts from others. “They would be too scared to.”

“What does that mean?” Harry said, a quick note of hope infiltrating his tone.

“It means…” she paused. “It means the Fold,” she supplied eventually. “They would be scared of it.”

“What’s the Fold?”

“Call it a veil – one that keeps you hidden from the rest of the modern universe. One, until the invaders broke through, that kept you safe, too.”

“I don’t get it. If you aliens are meant to be scared of it, why did the invaders break through it?”

Linh snorted. It was a good question, after all. One she was battling to understand.

If a race was smart, they feared the Folds. Those great forces that separated pre-interstellar civilizations from those who had mastered spaceflight.

The Folds were… ancient. It was more than that, though. They possessed an intelligence. Keen, sharp, and powerful.

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