In Death's Shadow by Robert C James

Author:Robert C James [James, Robert C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Robert C. James
Published: 2019-07-05T06:00:00+00:00

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Jason, Kevin, and Althaus stood around Aly at the operations station and counted down the seconds on her pocket watch.

It was such a beautiful timepiece. Jason remembered when he was a kid finding the antique in his father’s closet. His dad had recounted to him how old it was and how many generations it’d been in the family. Benjamin Cassidy loved that thing almost as much as his ship and his sons.

While happy he’d given it to Aly, Jason couldn’t help but feel ashamed that his dad hadn’t considered handing the heirloom down to him. No doubt the argument with his father when Jason had been a teenager that had ended in him threatening to space it out an airlock probably had something to do with his final decision.

“Here we go,” Aly said.

The power activated, lighting up the entire bridge. The monitor on the operations station flickered on, and the scanners initiated.

All four stared at the readings, and then just as quickly as it had flashed on, the electro-magnetic field once again took hold, bathing them in darkness.

Jason eyeballed the others. “Okay what did everyone see?”

“There was definitely a focal point,” Aly said. “The field seems to be emanating from a single position.”

“It was located in the north,” Althaus added. “Right in the middle of a large rock formation.”

Kevin nodded. “I saw it out to the west when we crashed down.”

“How far from here?” Jason asked him.

“At a guess, I’d say at least one hundred kilometers.”

Jason stepped to the viewport and peered out into the blackness of night. Beyond the sand dunes were the answers to their questions. It wouldn’t be easy traveling the plains of the inhospitable world. But he had little choice. Marissa’s life depended on it.

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