Reading the Wind (Silver Ship)
“We landed in the last possible spot before the path into West Home, turned for take off. The Burning Void lay in the open, completely unprotected. We had to depend on speed.
We ran up the path, all together in a bunch, leaping from rock to rock, somehow all managing to keep on our feet.
Liam stopped at the top, then screamed, “No!” as he kept going. We followed.
The roof of our house had holes punctured in the top. One side of the greenhouse billowed out in the wind, some of the hard plastic ac...tually torn off and lying meters away.
Liam hesitated, searching for any sign of whoever had done this. I put a hand on his shoulder, anger making me tremble. “A skimmer flew back from this direction, just after you brought that first one down. I bet they did this.”
A piteous cry came from the corral. “Windy!” Kayleen raced past us. Windy lay in the dirt, her coat blackened along one side of her neck, blood pouring out from a wound where her neck met her shoulder. She lifted her head and cried out.MoreLess
We ran up the path, all together in a bunch, leaping from rock to rock, somehow all managing to keep on our feet.
Liam stopped at the top, then screamed, “No!” as he kept going. We followed.
The roof of our house had holes punctured in the top. One side of the greenhouse billowed out in the wind, some of the hard plastic ac...tually torn off and lying meters away.
Liam hesitated, searching for any sign of whoever had done this. I put a hand on his shoulder, anger making me tremble. “A skimmer flew back from this direction, just after you brought that first one down. I bet they did this.”
A piteous cry came from the corral. “Windy!” Kayleen raced past us. Windy lay in the dirt, her coat blackened along one side of her neck, blood pouring out from a wound where her neck met her shoulder. She lifted her head and cried out.MoreLess
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