Caleb
The ground shook with aftershock tremors of another blast. They had turned the hillside into an excavation site. The bulldozers, drilling equipment, explosives, and trucks, had all arrived late last night.
The extraction machinery covered each cavity that had been made on the rock surface. Thanks to floodlights, the team had been hard at work throughout the night, blasting their way through the bedrock to the soft, purple mineral beneath.
The pack knew what was happening, but the humans just assumed that they were experiencing earth tremors.
I slid off my ear defenders and wore them loosely around my neck. “Aaron, how soon did the Geologist say she could get her team here? I want to make sure that we get rid of it all.”
I tossed the lump of paiminium back in the crate and peeled
