Liberty by Buroker Lindsay

Author:Buroker, Lindsay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2016-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

Part 5

Three black airships floated over Dawson and the Yukon River. Kali did not see the blue American craft anywhere. Had it been shot down? Had it fled? What exactly was going on in town?

She and Cedar were looking down at Dawson from the top of the ridge, about two miles from where the massive landslide had happened. They hadn’t circled back to check in with Kéitlyudee or to see if the scavengers had found anything. It was too risky, especially in full daylight. She and Cedar had left the cabin as quickly as they could, and it had been about an hour since Kali had last heard the baying of the hound, but that didn’t mean that the Mounties weren’t still tracking them.

She drummed her fingers against her pocket where she had tucked Amelia’s journal. Though pleased to have discovered it, if she couldn’t locate the woman before she destroyed the other chunk of flash gold, then Kali couldn’t try her bluff. She had to either find Amelia, or find the flash gold first. Unfortunately, she had no leads on either of them, and as amazing as Cedar was, he couldn’t track someone in the air, not unless Amelia was kind enough to bang against trees along the way again.

“Those ships don’t have any government markings.” Cedar had been scrutinizing them since they’d come over the ridge. “I wonder if someone is trying to use force to take something from the city. Would gangsters or pirates be so brazen as to come in during the middle of the day?”

“Any chance they’re Cudgel’s people?”

Kali didn’t care that much about who was piloting the new airships or what they were doing. She had too many problems of her own that were keeping her mind spinning. If she found the flash gold Cudgel had stolen from her, she could use it to build something new that could take Cedar and her out of the area at a decent speed—another self-automated bicycle or perhaps a steamboat. She could also consider trading it. It was the only thing of value that she had left, but it was of tremendous value. They could get far with the proceeds from selling or trading it, and she might have enough money to buy parts for a new airship. As much as she dreaded the prospect of starting from scratch, she would do so if she had to. One way or another, she would fulfill her dream and fly around the world in her own aircraft.

“That’s an interesting notion,” Cedar replied thoughtfully. “His organization was big. Just because he’s gone doesn’t mean there’s not some lieutenant that stepped forward and took charge. They did have that scam going in the area, scaring people into selling their successful claims cheaply. Maybe that was the first step of some bigger operation they were setting up.”

Movement in the sky west of the city drew Kali’s eyes. Her breath caught. A flying machine with large, mesh butterfly wings flapped over the river, heading in the direction of Dawson.

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