A lovely flight with a handsome alien is about to go terribly wrong for veteran soldier Anneliese.
“Incoming fire! Evade!”
Nex yelled back, his voice roaring furious in her
ears. “That’s scatter-shot! There must be drones in that stand of trees down
there!”
The Risnarish sentries had responded to the drones
firing on Nex’s dartwing, racing toward the copse of trees and returning the
shots. Blazing white streaks came from the long cylinders they pointed at the
stand of timber.
Despite the protection from the ground troops
below, shots continued to ping off the dartwing. The craft gave a sudden lurch,
and the console in front of Anneliese flashed a myriad of blinking purple and
red lights. The vessel listed hard to the side, its wing on Anneliese’s right
dipping down so that she was almost parallel to the ground.
“I take it we’re hit,” Anneliese said, her tone
casual now that she was in for the worst.
“We’re going down. Brace for a bumpy landing.” Nex’s
voice was as calm and as grim.
The dartwing flew in an arc, curving down fast
toward the grasses that waved as if to warn them off. They would end up on the
side of the copse opposite the Risnarish troops trying to defend them. “Shit,”
she muttered. It was Afghanistan all over again, except trucks didn’t plummet
from the sky. She had a feeling a crash landing would be on par with exploding.
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