WarWorld: The Battle of Sauron

by John Carr

  Koln made a turn so sharp as to swing half his bulk out over that vertiginous gulf, then left the precipice and his own fatalistic musings behind. He began walking up the steps to the landing area, to meet the First Rank’s shuttle. Although he was still six levels below them, the cheers of greeting from the Soldiers assembled to greet the First Rank were already a roar; and growing louder.

  Climbing the steep, narrow paths cut decades before into the stone of the mountainside, Koln reflected that while he had turned away from one brink, it would not be long before he must come to another. And the step he took then would have far greater consequences than the death of one lone Cyborg.

  The End