Saurians by Timothy Manley & Digital Fiction

Author:Timothy Manley & Digital Fiction [Manley, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Digital Science Fiction, an imprint of Digital Fiction Publishing Corp.
Published: 2018-02-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Kitean stood in his observation sphere. It was darkened all around, showing the stars and the single sun of the system renamed Laika by the Elder. Hovering in midair was scrolling text of data, information on the Out Fleet.

“Magnify twelve five,” he said. One section of the sphere surrounding him wavered for an instant. Shapes appeared that filled the room, six transport ships escorted by four warships.

Severe gravity ripped a hole in the fabric of space. It appeared as pitch darkness on the screen, the hole surrounded by swirls. Kitean stared into the swirls. Scientists said not to, but the shifting patterns called to him and caused his mind to tingle. The ten ships accelerated through the hole on fast warp, and it closed behind them leaving nothing behind to tell of its existence.

Kitean clasped his hands behind his back, a posture he had adopted from the Canids after he discovered that it aided them in their thought. He paced back and forth, movement the best way for his mind to wander. His was a body used for action, he needed motion to think. He did not understand how the Elder could escape into his mind so easily. Kitean envied Krishnae and emulated him, wishing to follow in his stead, and as such took no female, avoided mating and drink. He saw the position of Elder as the guider of the Triconitae.

He felt the power of the Triconitae. It filled him until he thought he would scream, unable to contain its wonder any longer. He felt small within his own body. Feelings of sublime wonder overwhelmed him and he fell to his knees in supplication to the truth of the Triconitae. His face stared into the glossy blackness of represented space.

Already six Raisings had taken their place as named ones. The Expansion was truly great. But Kitean saw the end. He looked up from the floor to the point where the ships had entered the hole. Past them was a rift of empty space, and then a group of stars, unexplored. It was to here that the word of the Triconitae had to be taken.

He had ordered probes there, but with no results returned. He feared that a new enemy was lurking, waiting. An enemy that he had seen only in dreams, strange creatures before unimagined. He felt glory for the biggest of the battles was yet to come.

Three full generations of Canids had passed and entered Katsurani service. They could not have half citizen status removed, for the original Leaders of the resistance still existed. Rilaef-ch-kraouulf was one. His grandfather had served with the resistance and as such held a special place of honor with Rilaef. It was to his grandfather's name that he joined the Naval Academy. His grandfather, nor his father, had ever understood. He tried to explain the Triconitae to them but they didn't see past the old wounds, the old ways.

Krishnae was a new messenger bringing the word of the Triconitae. They were taught their own history in primary school, in fact expected to know it and honor it.

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