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- Author: Imogen Howson
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Siblings
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IT DIDN’T feel like coming home.
The Phoenix broke into the upper atmosphere of Sekoia, flying nose
down, and for a moment the desert plateau flashed into view through the
glass windscreen of the pilot’s cabin, dizzyingly far below, patched with
tan and ocher and the bleached yellow of dead grass.
The pull of the ship’s artificial gravity, of what felt like down, didn’t
correspond with the actual ground, and Elissa, harnessed into her seat in
the front passenger row, just behind the copilot’s seat, had one of the
moments she didn’t think she’d ever get used to, when ears and eyes and
mind all disagreed, creating the momentary illusion that the ground they
were going to land on was rising up like a wall in front of them.
The Phoenix’s wings had swung out the moment they breached the
atmosphere, and now Cadan adjusted the flight angle so they were flying
parallel to the desert plateau. Sunlit sky blazed through the glass above
Elissa’s head, a wash of color that seemed, after the darkness of space,
impossibly bright. A long way off, a line, a joining of land and sky, of
dusty ocher and flawless blue, showed her the horizon.
Some hours before they entered Sekoia’s orbit, Cadan had set the
Phoenix into what he called amphibious mode, able to go seamlessly from
traveling through space to flying within the atmosphere of a planet. The
main flight deck and most of the body of the ship had been sealed off,
and Cadan was piloting it from a secondary cabin tucked in the side of the
ship beneath the flight-deck floor.
The first time Elissa had seen the ship, it had looked like a giant silver
squid, head pointing toward the sky it would launch itself into, the
impression strengthened by the surrounding tentacle-like landing gear.
Now she thought that with the ship’s wings out, flying belly-down, it
would seem more like a wide-finned fish, the little pilot’s cabin a bulging
eye on its smooth silver head.
Cadan set them on a course toward the Central Canyon City spaceport
while he called ahead to initiate landing protocol. Between the ship and
the far-off horizon, the upper levels of the city glinted, the sunlight
bouncing off what, much closer, would reveal itself to be an eye-wateringly
bright tangle of steel walkways and glass-domed roofs.
Elissa had lived there her whole life, traveling the slidewalks, using the
beetle-cars, walking under the shining expanse of roofs that kept the city’s
precious water from evaporating into the baked-dry desert air.
And now she found herself looking at it with alien eyes.
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