Station Fosaan by Dee Garretson

Author:Dee Garretson [Garretson, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: teen, young adult, childrens, science fiction, action, adventure, space exploration
ISBN: 9781945107436
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC
Published: 2017-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I am weary today. I do not know if I will continue with these musings. I suspect it is my own vanity that convinced me to do this. None of the young will listen to me. They do not even come to me for advice. I know my dear Mira is somehow involved with the Earthers. Perhaps it is better she didn’t come to me before taking up with them. What would I have told her to do?—Erimik, historian of the Family

Mira reached her fingers out to touch the image, but then drew it back. She didn’t look at us as she spoke. “The members of my family are the direct descendants of the last crown prince. That makes my grandmother the empress and the ruler of Fosaan. Only the royal family may wear the skele tattoo on their faces.”

I had suspected that, but the revelation left Lainie and Decker speechless for a moment. Lainie recovered first. “Wow! So you are some sort of princess or something?” she asked.

Decker gave a harsh bark of a laugh. “Royalty of a tiny village on a planet Earth controls, when Earth doesn’t recognize anything but democracies. It’s meaningless.”

“I don’t think it is to Ansun,” I said, “or to the Fosaanians.”

“It is our planet, not yours,” Mira said, louder now. “I don’t agree with most of what Ansun says, but it’s true we shouldn’t have to work for Earthers to survive. You should be paying us to stay here, not just giving us tiny amounts of currency for the sulfi. We had a thriving planet before the Apocalypse and we can have one again.”

That silenced us all. I had never heard anyone debate whether or not Earth’s arrangement with the Fosaanians was fair. From the Fosaanians’ point of view, it didn’t sound fair at all, but there wasn’t time to think about that for the moment. “There’s something I don’t understand,” I said. “Mira, why are the MIbots working with Ansun? How did he get control of them? They shouldn’t be able to choose to work with him instead of my mother.”

Mira shook her head. “I don’t know.”

“I don’t see how Ansun thinks he’s going to get away with this,” Lainie said.

I agreed. Decker had been right about how the military would swoop in as soon as they knew something was wrong.

“I don’t know,” Mira said, “but whatever Ansun wants, he gets. You can’t stay here. This place isn’t good.”

“What’s wrong with it?” Decker asked.

She shuddered. “Can’t you feel it? It’s full of despair.”

Mira’s words surprised me. From what little I knew of her, she was a practical girl, so for her to think a building held emotion was odd. “Mira, please tell us what you know. You recognized this place, didn’t you? It’s the same shape as the skeles, It must be important.”

A frightened expression flashed across her face. “Ansun doesn’t know this place is here and I don’t want him to find out. He’ll use it. I’ve heard him say he will build a new one when he has the chance.

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