Noah's Ark: Survivors (Noah's Ark #1) by Harry Dayle

Author:Harry Dayle [Dayle, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
Google: EjFzAgAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 18456500
Publisher: Shelfless
Published: 2013-08-01T12:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Four

THE SECOND NIGHT aboard Spirit of Arcadia following the asteroid was as quiet as the first for the bridge crew. Jake was woken by his alarm at 2:45 am, and made it back to the bridge just on time. Lucya disappeared off for some well-earned sleep. Dave and Pedro returned to their posts too. The ship had slowed considerably as it navigated the perilous waters around Prince Charles Foreland. Lucya had made the call that they shouldn’t arrive at the fjord too early. It would be safer to make the last part of the voyage during the day. Not for the added light; this far north and at this time of year it was light virtually twenty-four hours a day. It was more to do with having a slightly bigger crew on hand. Going slower overnight was a cautious move, but the right one, Jake agreed.

Lucya returned at eight in the morning, just as Silvia brought up breakfast for everyone.

“Silvia, you’re an angel,” Jake said. “But you must have more important things to do than wait on the bridge crew.”

“Apart from collating the results of the census, I don’t have a lot to worry about. With the water rations, we can’t clean the cabins, so the housekeeping team are redundant. The bars and cafes are all closed, and Claude is managing the restaurants in the way only Claude can.”

“What’s Barry up to? I haven’t seen him since yesterday morning.” Jake felt a pang of guilt that he hadn’t caught up with some of the senior staff in twenty-four hours.

“Barry is being amazing,” Silvia said with a twinkle in her eye. “We’ve next to no water, everything is rationed, and only the most basic services have power. Even so he’s somehow keeping a program of entertainment running. I swear that man could motivate an army single-handedly. He’s got his team running events all over the ship, taking people’s minds off what lies ahead. There’s kids’ bingo going on in the theatre. The prizes are tours of the engine room. One of the engineers salvaged some solar panels from the burnt-out tender and has hooked them up to get the projector in the cinema going. They’re showing films all day and the place is packed out. The cafes might be closed, but there’s a poker tournament running in three of them. It’s proving popular with the older passengers. And the sports instructors are running a whole host of events in the gym now that Grau has cleared out and moved back down to medical. They’re such a great team, they haven’t left me with anything to worry about.”

“Wow, it sounds almost like people are enjoying themselves.” Jake was impressed.

“Most people are, I think. There’s still the feeling that we’ve been spared, that we got away with something. I don’t know how that will change though, now we’re getting closer to land. It looks quite bleak out there.”

Jake and Silvia looked out at the approaching coastline. They were turning in towards the gaping mouth of the fjord.

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