Crossing the Line
Crossing the Line
“Luke 12:4 Mestin had been thinking about the outrage for half a day. People came and went in the Exchange of Surplus Things and glanced at her briefly. They were more distracted by the terrible images of Ouzhari on the public screen that spread the full width of the end wall.
The island had always been black. The unique grass there made it so. But the land was a different black now, the dull dirty charcoal aftermath of a huge fiery explosion. The sky looked hazy and overcast.
“Destroy them,” sh...e said at last, more to herself than the matriarchs beside her.
It wasn’t a huge task. The gethes had one ship: but it was in orbit around Umeh, and that meant ignoring an ancient courtesy. Wess’har had never breached the isenj homeworld. The isenj had been in the Ceret system before wess’har arrived, and for a very long time.
Fersanye and Chayyas waited with Mestin, but every so often they glanced at Nevyan. She was all acid agitation, tugging at her dhren occasionally, more like a nervous gethes.MoreLess
The island had always been black. The unique grass there made it so. But the land was a different black now, the dull dirty charcoal aftermath of a huge fiery explosion. The sky looked hazy and overcast.
“Destroy them,” sh...e said at last, more to herself than the matriarchs beside her.
It wasn’t a huge task. The gethes had one ship: but it was in orbit around Umeh, and that meant ignoring an ancient courtesy. Wess’har had never breached the isenj homeworld. The isenj had been in the Ceret system before wess’har arrived, and for a very long time.
Fersanye and Chayyas waited with Mestin, but every so often they glanced at Nevyan. She was all acid agitation, tugging at her dhren occasionally, more like a nervous gethes.MoreLess
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