Author: ueoai

Chap. 268 Joy ride “I saw part of your presentation yesterday, K’ndar,” Elene, Landing’s Chief Librarian said. “It was so very interesting. What was the rain forest like?” She’d joined him for breakfast in the dining hall. “Thank you, ma’am, but I didn’t think it was that good. I was so nervous.” She laughed. It…

Chap. 267 Name Day Raylan called the room to attention. “I’d like to welcome you all to this, Landings’ first ever-well, first in our lifetimes, at least, conclave of scientists who all had something to do with this very strange and unusual beast. I don’t know how the Ancients did such symposiums, nor do I…

Chap. 261 First Symposium K’ndar pulled nervously at the front of his best shirt. The room was filled with important looking people. He’d first seen some of them at the harvest, grubby and sweating. Today they were almost unrecognizable, having cleaned up. The change from being just another farm hand to a return to being…

Chap. 265 After the Harvest After checking the sleeping tents, he decided against staying the night. The bunks are just too close, he thought, and Siskin won’t be able to tolerate all the noise and strange people. I’ll get something to eat, but I’m still going to go back to Landing, he thought. He headed…

Chap. 264 Hazel’s Tale After several minutes, K’ndar and the horses had come to an agreement and began work. He’d half expected to either hear Hazel prattle, or merely direct him from station to station. He was wrong. Hazel sat alongside him. Teak, the cat, sat between them. Once in a while, the cat would…

Chap. 263 A Much Better Name Ayden perused his slate. Most of the group had been assigned tasks. K’ndar began to get nervous. Had he not been selected because he would be doing something that even resembled haying? Aydan slapped his head. “Numbskull!” He scanned the diminished group. “I’m such a dunce! I’m team leader…

Chap. 262 Never Run With a Dagger It’s so typical of people, he thought, that we join the same group we worked with yesterday. I could just as easily walk over to the group Raylan’s in, they didn’t work hay. No one would be the wiser. But I would know, he thought. He’d risen early…

Chap. 261 Stowaways He’d been afraid that he was going to be haying. His fear had been realized. He was exhausted. Only the first day of a week of harvest, and I feel as if I’ve been trampled, he thought. Everything hurt. His arms, his feet, his headache. He’d spent the day heaving increasingly heavy…

Chap. 260 Arse Chewing Our timing was perfect K’ndar said. He was rolling up his still dry harness in Raventh’s bay. The skies had opened up just moments before. “I’ll never get used to how it rains here,” he said, out loud. What do you mean? Look at it! It’s coming sideways! And hard! At…

Chap. 259 Identified K’ndar shut off the datalink. He found himself shaking from stress-or fury? “’E’s your boss, what?” Rand said of Raylan. “And friend. I’ve never heard him so angry. That man, Jomoke-what in the world was he trying to do? Why would he work to get me in trouble, me, a total stranger?…