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Time to look for the author...*** X-Eagle "Solutions" |
"Solutions"
by Commodore Fyrstk
"By the position of the sun in the sky," Rohan observed, "it should be approximately fourteen hundred hours. That is if this planet has a twenty-four hour day."
Luna Fyrstk nodded and looked around. They had been on the ground for a few hours, and the kids had been kept busy clearing an area around the downed shuttle. "Hopefully we won't be here that long to find out. Where are Ronnie and Noble? We haven't seen them for quite some time."
"Setting booby traps," Rohan informed his sister. "It is almost a certainty that whomever followed us into this system will come looking for us. So, Ronnie thought we should be prepared."
"But what if the ones looking for us are friendly?"
"With the way they treated us before we got away," Rohan noted, "I don't think that will be the case. In fact, I shut down the link between the shuttle and the tricorder we left in orbit so they will not be able to trace to us."
From around the bow of the shuttle, the Vulcan boy Vaurk, and two other children that had gone with him, appeared. He walked directly to Luna. In his hand, he carried a weather-proof carry sack. It looked three quarters full. The other two children each carried sacks that were three-quarters full.
"We found edible berries and fruits," Vaurk informed them. "As well as some leaves that will provide some required nutrients."
Celeste Ane came out of the shuttle, just as the group was all looking at samples of the stuff Vaurk had brought back. Her attention went immediately to the leaves.
"Vaurk?" Celeste questioned. "Don't those leaves look like they come from a t'vaira vine?"
"That is correct," the Vulcan confirmed. "You can put one on your tongue and literally suck the nutrients from it. The taste is not objectionable."
"Quite tasty, if I recall," Celeste added. She looked to Luna, her eyes bright. "And, if I remember my xeno-herbology, the leaves can also be boiled and the liquid used in putting critically wounded patients into a stasis-like mode."
"Yes," Vaurk confirmed. "That is indeed correct."
"We still have water left," Luna said. "Let's get some boiled up."
"Ah can help lahght the fahre," Jessica Fyrstk chimed in. "I've been learning in the Pahoneer Girls."
"Ah don't know how much tahme ya got," came the voice of Ronov Fyrstk. He and Noble were coming around the aft section of the shuttle. Both boys were stripped to the waist, and sweating. He pointed skyward. "It look lahke company is comin'."
All eyes turned to the direction Ronov had pointed. It was merely a small object in the sky, but as soon as they saw it, they heard its engines. It was clearly a ship.
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