Chapter 98

Chapter Ninety-Eight

Connor led the small team along the trail he’d taken a couple nights earlier, this time taking advantage of the daylight to avoid the detritus spread across the downslope. The moss growing around the furrow was greener than normal.

It still muffled the sound of their boots.

Unfortunately, it couldn’t do anything about the clatter of armor or tools, and he and Yemi had a lot of tools.

After the storm, it was a few degrees cooler but still miserable, and now there was a mustiness to the alien smells.

He turned back to get the others’ attention. “Five hundred meters.”

Yemi was three meters back and to the left. Sweat slicked the older man’s dark face, but he smiled. “Yemi runs five hundred meters.”

The Moon twins looked better off, but Elise was gasping. She wasn’t used to the weight of Martienne’s armor and complained that it chafed everywhere but especially the armpits and ribs.