Pelquin's Comet by Whates Ian

Author:Whates, Ian [Whates, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: NewCon Press
Published: 2015-03-30T07:00:00+00:00

She came to in daylight, amazed to be waking at all. Sunlight bathed her face and the constant drone of flies welcomed the return to awareness. Something large flapped upward on black wings as she moved – a carrion bird. It didn’t fly far, settling nearby atop a stunted tree, neck bobbing as it inspected her suspiciously.

Aside from the flies, the world seemed draped in an unnerving blanket of silence.

Leesa allowed herself to see then what she’d been trying so hard not to. She was surrounded by the dead; her slaughtered brothers and sisters, mown down by an awful and wholly unsuspected weapon of the coalition. Many of the bodies were contorted at odd angles, testament to their perishing in the throes of intense suffering. Some appeared to have clawed at their own faces, cutting open fleshy cheeks. The caked white of dried spittle and the yellower stain of vomit crusted open mouths. She took one hard long look and then averted her eyes. She strode from the scene with her gaze fixed firmly on the horizon. A cloud of black flies and blacker birds surrounded her, disturbed by her passage; her own dark bow wave as she traversed the sea of the dead.

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