Crucible of Dawn
Language: English
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012
Series: Book 3 of 6 - Lodestone
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- Title
- Crucible of Dawn
- Author
- Whiteway, Mark
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1480127175
- ISBN 13
- 9781480127173
- Series
- Book 3 of 6: Lodestone
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From the Author
and jagged screams, as black smoke began billowing over the rooftops
from one street over. The boy stared wide-eyed at the curdling cloud.
McCann jumped down from the cart and flinched as a silver streak
flashed low overhead, its twin fans emitting a high-pitched shriek.
Yaron still sat on the buckboard, transfixed by the sudden
apparition. McCann reached up and grabbed the young Kelanni by the
collar, half-dragging him out of his seat and down to the ground. "We
have to get out of here. Now."
"Avionics," Yaron said, stupidly. "They're firin' at us."
"That's right." McCann cast about, trying to get his bearings.
"Our avionics aren' fitted wi' weapons."
"No. But ours are."
"You mean 'u-mans. But... they're na supposed t' have avionics.
They're na even supposed t' leave their island."
"It's a closely guarded secret," McCann's mouth twisted. "Or at
least it was until thirty seconds ago." He could hear multiple engine
drones now, coupled with the sound of distant firing. The air was
charged with panic. People running. Frenzied shouts.
Up ahead, a phaeton floated towards them, humming quietly as
curious occupants stuck their heads out the windows and observed the
rising palls of smoke as if they were a new tourist attraction. He wanted to
flag the driver down--to yell at him to get himself and his passengers off
the street--but he was still a human operating under cover in an alien burg.
He could not afford to attract attention to himself.
The whining grew in pitch once more and another silver dart
appeared over the rooftops. Its nose dipped and it hovered for a
moment, so that McCann fancied he could almost see the outline of the
pilot. Then, a puff of smoke and a brief flash erupted from the
machine's port side. McCann had just enough time to shove Yaron to
the ground and hurl himself on top of the boy before the opposite side
of the street disintegrated.
He squeezed his eyes shut as dirt and debris rained down on the
two of them. The eerie silence returned, except this time it was all
around him, blotting out sound. Slowly he realised that his ears were
ringing. The body beneath him stirred. He raised himself gingerly. Dust
hung in the air and clawed at the back of his throat. He gagged and fell
into a paroxysm of coughing. The sound was muffled, as if someone
had stuffed his ears with cotton wool.
The alien boy raised a dust-covered face, looking like a character out of
an ancient Bela Lugosi film. "Are you all right?" McCann asked, in a voice
that sounded like it belonged to someone else.
The boy knuckled an eye and nodded. McCann got to his feet, scratched
his head, and looked around him. The street. The store fronts--what was left
of them. His clothes. The sky. The world. All suddenly transformed into
monochrome. He was Buster Keaton in that tornado scene after the building
fell on him. Only this wasn't a movie. And no one was laughing. (Continued)
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