Songs of Thalassa by Brian Tissot

Author:Brian Tissot [Tissot, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781098301507
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2020-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20.

Reunion

With sullen eyes, Milo stared down the long sandy beach shaking his head. “I’m getting sick of this! When the hell is Cutten going to get here?”

Moshe shrugged. “It’s only been six weeks. You have to be patient. With all your secrecy, I’m not surprised at the delay.”

“Yeah,” Milo shot back. “But that’s plenty of time to rush an antimatter ship out from Cassini. They must be wondering about the lack of communication, but they sure seem to be taking their goddamn sweet time.” He looked up. “And I don’t like the look of those clouds, and maybe it’s my imagination, but we seem to be having more meteorites every night. And god knows what’s happening to the fucking tides.”

“You know what Georgia thinks, and she’s the expert,” Moshe replied. “Either way there is nothing we can do about it but wait. At least Dina is having fun.”

“Yeah, surfing.” Milo sneered. “That’s the main thing, right? I don’t give a shit about that kind of surfing. We need to get back up to the Duke and edit the Colossus surfing session. I can’t wait to broadcast that one! Since Sage didn’t make it, we’ll just show my biggest wave. You’re sure it was uploaded before we crashed, right?”

“Yes, yes,” said Moshe. “For the hundredth time, I uploaded everything in real time, so all the footage is safe on the Duke.”

Milo kicked the sand. “We’d be back on Earth now if the lander hadn’t crashed and the goddamn remote didn’t get soaked.”

“And it’s too bad about Byron as well,” Moshe said, raising one eyebrow.

Milo flinched and gave Moshe a dismissive look. “Yes, of course, but we have to move on. Georgia says it’s just the remote battery, and we’re lucky she was able to grab it. Which is why we should consider plan B.”

Moshe took a deep breath, then glared at Milo. “Can you remind me of that one again? You have so many: uploading the big-wave video, bioprospecting for pharmaceuticals, eating one of those seals, grabbing a creature for an exhibit, swimming over to the mainland—I get lost in all your brilliant ideas.”

“Well, there’s nothing else to do. And I definitely want to take something back. But my idea—which is solid by the way—is to look for the ruins of the Proteus mission.” He pointed across the narrow inland sea at the mainland. “It was only 12 years ago, and I bet they didn’t waste their time on these islands but landed over there, on the flat coastal plain. The rest of the continent is too steep and rocky. There can’t be more than a dozen miles of it, and it’s right across from us. Once we locate what’s left of the ship, we can find a power source in the wreckage to use. Then we can call down the Duke and get the hell out of here.”

“Why don’t we just ask Dina to paddle across on her board and get it?” asked Moshe.

Milo shook his head. “No, that won’t work.

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