Alight
“The blazing light blinks out as fast as it flared up, leaving me seeing spots.I think of El-Saffani.Barkah slams into me, knocking me off the path to the right. We crash hard in the wet underbrush.I scramble to my feet, crouching, hands tight on the shovel. We’re under attack. Tohdohbak is dead. Coyotl or Beckett must have killed him. Back at the shuttle, Borjigin was working on the spider cannon. Did he fix it? Is that cannon like the Grownups’ bracelets—the weapons that killed El-Saffani?I ca...n’t see through this fog.O’Malley, shouting for help, terrified.I stay low, in the cover of the underbrush, and move toward the trail’s edge. Barkah is on my right, doing the same thing, musket clutched in his odd hands.A burst of red light blinds me as a whump rattles my ears, knocks me flat to my back. The world spins. I hear a Springer screaming in agony.
I roll to my hands and knees, ignore the pain as I slowly push myself up. My legs feel weak. I grab my shovel.I see Barkah, his musket barrel leveled over a fallen log made fuzzy by blue moss that gleams with tiny spots of wetness.MoreLess
I roll to my hands and knees, ignore the pain as I slowly push myself up. My legs feel weak. I grab my shovel.I see Barkah, his musket barrel leveled over a fallen log made fuzzy by blue moss that gleams with tiny spots of wetness.MoreLess
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