The Fourth Guardian
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The marshy mound they were set upon measured about four hundred meters in diameter and rose from the swamp as if it were the only solid piece of real estate.
Hastily provisioned supplies were set down with the exiles, and when the Silhouettes sarcastically waved good-bye and lifted off, they left behind those responsible for over ten thousand dead, and a hundred and fifty thousand unjustifiably imprisoned, and an unknown number of them who had been starved and beaten into submission.
The mound beneath them shifted.
"Goddam it,” snarled Horwissth. “That son of a bitch set us down on a planet prone to earthquakes!"
Everyone looked around for some other place to make camp ... while beneath them, below the cooling surface, the creature they'd landed on was inclined to scratch itself, and to do so it would have to roll over...
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Epilogue
Quohog, the one known to his cadre sect as the Supreme Galactic, levered himself upright. “Well,” he asked dryly. “Will these humanoids be allowed to join with us?"
The others murmured their approval. It would be nice having a newcomer around, and amusing too, when he discovered that among the Galactics, he was not unique from those descended of the Guardians.
The End
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Author bio
Geoff Geauterre is a retired civil servant with a degree in history and special interest in journalism and research. He has lived in Florida, New York, Chicago, Boston, Maine, Montreal, Northern Quebec, Calgary, Northwest Territories, and parts of Alaska. He's said he gained his sense of humor on the back of a mule.
Experienced in medicine, administration, security, publications and news services as a reporter and commentator, with over four years in the U.S. Navy, he later applied that background when attending the university.
Geoff has traveled to England, France, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Turkey and the Mediterranean Islands. He likes studying philosophy, comparative myths, legends and religions. He is reasonably certain of having gained prior experience in writing in another life. He only hoped it wasn't one that led him to the guillotine!
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