The Quarry

[Rage Menelas]

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]It took several hours for her pilot to get Saar'floe back in the air. Once he did, he gained altitude then fly her in a wide circle through the early morning skies, doing a minute search for the sensory signature of the enemy craft that had attacked them. Before long he picked up a faint radiation glow to the north, near one of the canyons. Charlie flew in that direction.

Now he could make it out visually, the wreck of a Szearfetti spacecraft. He knew he had scored a hit on it at about the same time they had been knocked down themselves but until now he didn't know how severe a blow he had dealt.

He scanned the wreckage no signs of life. Now a bright crimson beam flew out from the belly of Saar'floe, touched the wrecked craft. The beam ran liberally across the surface of the silvery crescent until it turned orange with heat then red and then began to melt into the ground. Before long there was nothing but hot slag and burned moss at the scene of the crash.

Now it was time to find his lost apprentice. He prepped the seeker drone...