Chapter 15
It took Nick several minutes of breathing the cold, salty air before he accepted the fact that he wasn’t going to die just yet. His hammering heart settled down into more of a standard heart rate, and he climbed to his feet.
With gasps and whispers, the people gathered around him moved back a few steps. His mount, the alien with the flowing energy antlers, looked gravely down at him from its towering height. The face was too broad, too wrinkled and whiskery to really look like a reindeer but the rainbow-colored energy antlers did make an impressive spread above its head. The complicated star-shaped pupil with its radiating arms and moving dots studied him with a wise, and yet somehow amused, sort of face. Was it really amused? Or was that only his reaction to the alien face, t
