“Right there, Captain,” Chang said. “That’s where Boyd ordered me to drop him.”
“EVE?” Foster asked their android.
“There is a structure deep within the jungle,” EVE said. “However, I am unable to locate any signs of humanoid activity.”
“He probably slipped inside to look around,” Chang said. “Want me to find a landing zone?”
Foster shook her head, taking a seat on the captain’s chair. “No. Imperials are on high alert and we’s no longer welcome here for the time being. Landing will just raise suspicions.”
“We can’t just leave him.”
“Look at the UNE fleet,” she said “They’ve gotten word about him by now, and ain’t none of them doing anything. The best we can do is hope the Hashmedai find him, and kindly return him back to us.”
“And, if he’s hurt?”
“Then he better hope a damn good doctor is standing watch over him.”
“Fleet is ready to move out,” Odelea said, relaying the message from her communication station.
“Break orbit and dock with that command ship, Mister Chang,” Foster said. “We’s got a lot work ahead of us.”
Next time on Splintered Galaxy . . .
Foster and her crew set a course to the Radiance Union, to seek treatment for Chevallier’s injuries. Revolutionary groups within Radiance take notice of the situation, and set their eyes on the Kepler, and make plans to greet them. Meanwhile, the Terran Legion regroups and seeks to continue their plot to enslave all nonhuman life, build puppet nations for all alien governments, and control the dragons.
Hallowed Nebula: Edge of the Splintered Galaxy book 3.
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About the Author
Eddie R. Hicks is a Canadian author known as a man of many talents, and for good reason. He’s educated in media arts, journalism, and culinary arts, and now he writes dark and sexy science-fiction and fantasy novels.
If he’s not working with skilled chefs in the restaurant industry, baking an epic red velvet cake for the hell of it, or playing video games, then he’s in front of his computer doing what he always dreamed of doing since he was a kid: storytelling.
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