The Quarry

[Rage Menelas]

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Ryan awoke to find himself stuck in a web of some type. Disoriented, he fought feebly to free himself. Finally, after much effort, he was successful. He looked around...

His surroundings were vaguely familiar. It was the bridge of Saar'floe, but what was up with all this netting? He suddenly noticed there was another creature in the chamber with him. He waded through the thick webs until he was close enough to make it out. It was some four foot tall with a large bulbous head much too large for it's body. It's two hands sported extra-long fingers and it's skin was a pallid, grayish in hue. Big buggy looking eyes and tiny ears completed the bizarre features of the alien. But who was it? Whoever it was, he (she?) was unconscious, maybe dead. There was a bloody crease across the crown of his head and a thin ribbon of blood traced a path from the corner of his mouth down to his collar bone. Maybe he should finish him off. It he came to he could be trouble.

No, he couldn't do that. He decided to just use the webbing to tie him up good until he found Charlie. Charlie would know what to do with him. This he did, finding the material to be very useful for such a task. It was sticky, elastic and stout. That done he looked around to get his bearings.

Through the window he could see Saar'floe was resting on a flat section of green sward that stretched as far as the eye could see, even to the curve of the planet itself. On Earth it was twelve miles to the horizon, but he knew it depended on the diameter of the planet; didn't know how Pella'agre compared to Earth in that regard... He shook his head, he was allowing his thoughts to ramble. Determined to find Charlie, he turned to the entrance...