Chapter 10The Tall Ones
June 5, 2259, Sunday night
The humans gasped when they stepped from the trees into the meadow. The bears stood still and waited. The crows took to the trees. The blue ghosts disappeared into the woods.
Quentin rubbed his eyes and held up the lantern. He stared in disbelief. He knew, and he knew Coral and John-Caleb also knew, what they were all seeing. A silvery-grey Lindauzi airship, twice the size of a freight shuttle, sat in the middle of the meadow. They had all been taught, since they were small children, the differences between airships and shuttles and personal flyers, and the purpose of each. The Hounds had flown the flyers during Lindauzi extermination campaigns. They traveled with hunterbeasts, brutal killers brought with them from the Lindauzi home wor
