Spinning Wheels by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eve Langlais

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Ray felt all kinds of remorse as Nema hit the floor. Yet, what else could he do? The woman had fired on a planet, even after realizing Zak’s sister might still be alive on it.

“Why?” Zak whispered. “Why would she do that?”

“Because that was her plan all along. Destroy the temple and the cogs inside. And she used us to do it.” The words tumbled from him in an angry rush. Angry because he’d trusted her, especially since the kiss they’d shared. A kiss he’d hoped to repeat. Yet, all along she’d been lying.

The missiles she fired started a chain reaction. They could see the difference on screen as the lava poles brightened, heat churned the surface, great big bubbles popped, and the steam spread, overtaking the narrow strip of land.

“I can’t believe she initiated a cataclysmic world event.” Said with disbelief before Zak exclaimed, “We need to move fast if we’re going to find Ursy and Wulff before the planet is covered in lava.”

Some might have said the task was impossible. But that didn’t mean they wouldn’t try. Ursy wasn’t just Zak’s sister; he considered her a friend—even if she would slug him for admitting it in public.

“Are we sure she’s even still down there? Maybe she found another ship and left already.”

Zak shook his head. “She’s there. I can feel it.”

Ray might have asked how, but he knew Zak shared a bond with his twin. Some would say it was because they shared a womb. Others would claim it had to do with the twin cogs shared upon their first taking of the gear.

“Head for the temple,” he urged.

“Course already set. We’ll be through the atmosphere in another few tics. But we can’t move too fast, or we might miss something. I am scanning the surface for life forms, but I’m having a hard time. The steam is obscuring everything.”

“If Ursy is here, we’ll find her,” Ray reassured.

“Yeah, but will I find her before she boils to death? The planet’s getting hotter by the tiny tic of the gear.” Zak shook his head and muttered, “I still can’t believe she did that.”

“You’ve heard how she talked about gears. She truly believes they’re evil.”

“Maybe she’s right,” Zak mused with a serious mien, eyes fixed on the screen. “I once knew a guy who claimed the same thing. He actually had his removed and was proud of the scars.”

“He’s not the only one.” Ray knew of another male who’d done it as well. He’d stood outside the gate blocking the path to the temple, shouting his blasphemy, his thin frame emaciated and weak. “Stop enslaving the metal. Set its spirit free.”

The priests left him alone because, to them, he provided a perfect example of why they took the gears. Why they upgraded.

“We are through the atmosphere and dropping toward the structure,” Zak announced.

“Don’t you mean temple?” Ray moved closer to the screen, squinting at the swirling mists he could see, the appearing and vanishing edges of stone hinting of moss, dark with streaks of red.

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