“How strange,” Kris said, looking at the moons, “and beautiful.”
“Yeah,” Brian said. “There"s three altogether. The other one is blue. We noticed when we were here before.”
“When does the blue one come up?”
Riley spotted Brian"s uncertainty and spoke up, “The blue one seems to be on a twenty-hour orbit. It shows up, crosses the sky for ten hours and then is gone for another ten. The days are thirty hours here.”
“What about the others?”
“Well, the green seems to be on an elliptical orbit, and it shifts, so I haven"t got the cycle down yet. The red moon—”
A high-pitched screeching filled the night and shadows crossed the sky.
“What the—”
“They look like bats,” Riley commented. “They fly like bats, anyway, but they"re pale and… big.”
The swarm suddenly whirled and rushed toward the g
