Primal Claim (WARLORDS OF VASZ #1) by Leo Rivers EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Leo Rivers
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Elian awoke to darkness.
For a moment, he was still lost in the hazy world of dreams, halfremembered images slipping through his fingers.
Then reality slammed into him, hard enough to make his head spin.
With a groan, he sat up in his cryopod, the restraints automatically
unfurling and sliding away at his command. The thick, reinforced glass of
the pod’s lid was already open, the thick, hot air of the ship filling his lungs.
He coughed, shaking himself awake. Hot air? The generation ship’s air
was usually cool, filtered, clean.
What was happening?
Elian looked around for someone else. His pod was the last of the row,
furthest to the back. As everyone had been getting into their pods, he’d
joked about having the worst seat on this trip.
From his position, he could look out over the long rows of cryopods.
They weren’t opening. Their lids were closed firmly, their screens blank.
The rest of the cryobay was dark, lit only by the frantic, pulsing flash of
emergency lights.
The silence was absolute, the kind of deep, profound quiet that was
almost its own presence. There were no hums of machinery, no distant
echoes of human voices — nothing.
The ship was dead.
Elian’s heart began to race. He’d been told that the journey to his new
home would be a long one, but he’d be asleep for the entire trip. He’d been
told that he’d wake up to find his new life on the colony planet ready and
waiting for him.
A place to belong, waiting to accept him. A place to finally call home.
He’d counted down every day until launch.
But now something was wrong.
Elian winced as a shower of sparks rained down from a ruptured ceiling
panel. The acrid stench of burnt circuitry stung his nostrils, setting his eyes
watering. Red emergency lights flickered and strobed, casting the corridor
in an apocalyptic glow.
He had to move. He stumbled to his feet, still clumsy from his long sleep.
Just… just get to the control room. You can open the pods from there.
Wake the others.
The thoughts pounded in his head, drilled into him by training. He tried to
remember all of those training lectures and information packets, running
over those In Case of Emergency… procedures as a mantra to focus his
mind against the growing sense of panic fluttering in his chest.
He staggered out of the cryobay, desperately heading toward the
command center. It was… around here, right, down the hallway — hot, why
was everything so hot?— and then you followed the emergency lighting…
Elian rounded a corner.
The corridor opened up into a gaping void, the
path ahead reduced to twisted and shredded metal.
The hull had been torn open.
They’d crashed.
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