Landfall: Tales From the Flood/ark Universe
“Amid kilometres of arid crimson dust they found an oasis, a hollow surrounded by plates of uplifted rock, evidence of some ancient geological torment, the water pooling from some accidental aquifer. Green plants grew, grass and moss and straggling trees, and clumps of Purple sat passively amid the rocks. Xaia allowed the caravan to break up. The great horses were unharnessed and led to the water. She and her aides and her fifty crew members, most of them women warriors, wearily laid down packs and loosened dust masks. Manda clambered up a ridge with a spyglass, to survey the landscape.
Xaia sought out Chan Hil. Teif followed her. Chan had taken off his boots, replacing them with soft camp sandals, and was unfolding his tent. Xaia had a chart prepared by the Cora’s navigator, a sketch map of this northerly section of the Belt, gradually being filled in. ‘We should be here,’ she said, pointing. ‘At the Reef. Here are the coordinates you gave us, latitude and longitude. Here is our calc...ulation …’ ‘I told you we should have sent out scouts,’ Teif rumbled.MoreLess
Xaia sought out Chan Hil. Teif followed her. Chan had taken off his boots, replacing them with soft camp sandals, and was unfolding his tent. Xaia had a chart prepared by the Cora’s navigator, a sketch map of this northerly section of the Belt, gradually being filled in. ‘We should be here,’ she said, pointing. ‘At the Reef. Here are the coordinates you gave us, latitude and longitude. Here is our calc...ulation …’ ‘I told you we should have sent out scouts,’ Teif rumbled.MoreLess
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