Yggsdrasil
Chapter 30: Unlikely Successful Communication!
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Hours later all the Trolls were standing in one line. The larger male soldiers available for duty were standing in another line two by two, they would sit down beside each other with a space between. Berantah would roll her machine into that space and hook them up. It took a little while until the partial transfusion was complete. The machine checked for and prevented any potential hazards from imperiling the soldiers. Shortly, and it was done, and they got up and each went a different direction. Each found a bed or a place to sleep. Lamar tried to transfuse blood twice but Berantah almost beat him up. Once per day she said.
Nothing much got done that day. The sounds of snoring soldiers reverberated across the camp. The kindred stood watch alone. The civilians were mystified.
The next day before dawn the command group, as they were beginning to think of themselves, met again. Trolls were included this time. When the group split up after several gallons of coffee each went to a separate tasks. This time they began to seriously build.
Captain Lamar had stated the objective. First Sgt. Halsey had given orders. The Platoon sergeants assigned teams. The bears and Trolls and most of the men began to dig again, and move more dirt. Teams went into the forest for wood. Trees were removed. They were building another wall behind the one that they'd already built. High velocity bullets put a whole new slant on things. They built several walls actually, some were double log palisades with dirt between them. They build many kinds of traps and deadfalls, they built hideaways, tunnels, boltholes and getaway trenches. They got really sneaky and nasty. They would be opposing a force several times greater in number than they were. They were maximizing home team advantage.
After they built something it was tested, then sometimes rebuilt or improved on. They began to train.
Force multiplication was their only hope.
While the construction was in progress a small group of the strongest fastest dragons departed. They were returning to the Ark temporarily. They could fly past the edge of the world and go directly to the Ark which, oddly enough, was on a cliff directly opposite the sky-fort but a long, long way away. The whole way was across the trackless abyss. Only the dragon’s built in navigation would prevent them from getting lost. The Griffin lacked that ability , or the non stop endurance.
That distance, straight across, was perhaps a tenth that of the very circuitous overland route. What had taken the foraging party weeks and months to traverse overland while hunting meat could be done in hours by a strong, fast flier.
There were very few adults still on the ARK. Most were caretakers for the hundreds of children but a very few of the ancients remained. The very, very old were comparatively frail and feeble physically and had not been allowed to go with the expeditionary force. Most had protested vigorously but the Elders would not allow them to go.
The castaways on the SkyFort desperately needed their wisdom, even if neither group was aware the other existed. A few of the Kindred Children had come to the realization though and thus, several young, racing Dragons fought the wind as they inspired each other to greater speeds. They raced to inform their WiseKin of the impending calamity.
At the SkyFort everyone communicated effortlessly. No one stopped to think that the language lessons had gone amazingly, impossibly well. Everyone could communicate with everyone else as if they had been born speaking each other’s languages. This was so impossible that it was stupid, but no one considered it consciously any longer.
They just talked.
To be Continued
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29