Terrineia: Book 4 of the Galactic Startup Series by Whiting Brian

Author:Whiting, Brian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brian Whiting
Published: 2019-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

JOURNEY

ALEX AND HIS group stopped by a stream that flowed near one of the larger villages in the north end of Jebney, close to the city of rock. They refilled their waters and was curious about the lack of observable movement from the large village they approached. They remained on juntards ready to flee at the first sight of a Jebney ambush. The sun would be rising at any moment.

“These torches should be lit, the guards are very lax.” Deetur said as he passed the outer limit to the village. Alex held one weapon at the ready set for medium shots, which provided seven rounds. The other in his waistband set to small, which provided over thirty. The headset was with Alesti and he wished he had it right now, but she was near the rear of the group and he didn’t want to make it more obvious than it already was that the headset had a special significance. He didn’t want to share that bit of knowledge with the rest of the group.

Reaching out with his mind he only felt the standard cloud of those around him. The village was still dark, no torches were lit anywhere even in the village square, the barracks, or other areas commonly lit through the night.

They approached one of the smaller buildings, which appeared to have crumbled to the ground. It was hard to make anything out in the darkness.

“Something is very wrong here.” Alesti said as she pulled up to Alex quietly handing him the headset. The moment he put it on Symboli began to speak.

“Ask Deetur if they know of any military weapons that could crush this building like this, a catapult perhaps?”

Alex got off his juntard and walked onto the pile of rubble, made of thick timber, huge crumbled piles of mud walls, hand made furniture and other homely items were splayed about, mixed with the rubble. A moment or so later Deetur joined him on the ground.

“Do you know of anything that could do this?”

“Sure, whenever a city needs to expand sometimes, it is rarely done but it’s the most logical explanation.”

Alex looked around, the faint light of a nearby nebula provided a hint of red light to all outside surfaces. We are too close to the edge of the city for it to be an expansion issue, he thought to himself. Holding up several pieces of the rubble into the light he looked for burn marks in the wood but there were none.

“HELLO!” Alex yelled in the local native language.

“Saaaoooo… We will lose the element of surprise!” Deetur said in a rush.

“HELLO, anyone here?” Alex said still standing in the rubble. He was hoping someone in the village might come out.

Deetur ran back to his juntard and climbed on.

Alex walked deeper into the village, Alesti followed him with her juntard close behind.

“There are a number of dead bodies about thirty feet ahead of you.”

“How do you know that?” Alex asked Symboli.

“My vision through the camera is better than yours.

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