A Warrior's Revenge by Guy Stanton III Page A

hall of
the honored dead, as quietly as they had come. The chamber would
never be visited again.

Chapter Nine
End of Winter
    Ellanara stopped and the others of the group
fanned out to the sides to gaze unbelievably at the object at rest
within the huge underground cavern of the mountain.
    “Is that an airship?” Eshta stammered out in
awed wonder.
    “Yes it is and you’re going to learn how to
fly it.”
    Eshta glanced from the gleaming surfaces of
the ship to Ellanara in sheer horror at her statement.
    “In time that is.” Ellanara added
mischievously, as the others around chuckled at Eshta’s expense.
Eshta scowled at the offenders and they stopped.
    “Is this the bar-Seth?” Loric asked quietly,
as he gazed in awe at the ship. He’d seen the airships that had
existed in his father’s time, but this ship was far larger than any
of the others had been, which had led him to believe this must’ve
been the ship of legend that he was staring at.
    “No the bar-Seth sank below the waves long
ago and has stayed there. This ship I have named the
bar-Trinity.”
    “How did you build such a ship down here
alone?” Loric asked in wonder.
    Ellanara smiled, as Abby appeared beside
her, “I had a very good assistant, who helped me with all the
calculations involved and I had them do the physical side of
things.” She said in indication of the other room where an entire
army of strange devices and machines moved in a flurry of movement,
as if in response to her thoughts.
    Loric looked from the robots to her, “You
control all those machines with your mind?”
    “Yes much the same way that you are going to
control the other Hunters after their short circuited by the device
that I’ve made. Now let us be about the said rescue of the other
Hunters. Follow me please.” The wall opened and the group followed
after Ellanara, as she strode across the hangar floor towards the
massive ship named the bar-Trinity.
    Loric could kind of understand the
significance of the name in relation to the ship. The ship sort of
looked like three ships artfully combined into one. The main
fuselage was round narrowed to a point and was very much similar to
the abdomen of an insect’s, while slightly flared out at the other
end. Slightly above the main fuselage and to either side of it were
the projections of two sharply pointed v-wings. At the apex of the
“v” was a small round fuselage, which had a circular framework that
went the length of the fuselage. The ship’s design was entirely
different than anything he had ever seen before.
    A walkway extended down out of the ship and
the group marched upward into the ship. Once everyone was in the
ship and surrounded by the strangeness of technology that seemed to
exist everywhere the walkway closed and the hull of the ship
reformed where the doorway had been. Even Loric was somewhat
mystified by the elaborate interfaces that look deceptively simple,
but probably weren’t.
    He was accustomed to higher technology, but
none of what he saw was familiar. He could only too well imagine
how Kana and the others were feeling surrounded by this alien
environment of never before seen technology.
    “I want you all to relax and find a seat and
strap yourselves in. None of you are going to be responsible for
anything, until you’ve had time to learn it. I will manage all
aspects of flying, fighting and landing the ship, until such time
as you are able to take over and ease my burden some. Abby is going
to teach each and every one of you what your responsibilities will
be.”
    Abby appeared and smiled sweetly at the
group of wide eyed women, “Don’t worry dears I have experience at
this and a perfect track record so far.” The words did little to
comfort.
    Ellanara turned to Abby, “Are you completely
transferred over?”
    Abby nodded yes and there was a brief moment
of barely controlled excitement visible within the digital
manifestation of an individual, which was odd to see in Loric’s
opinion,