The dome was up ahead... then he turned right away from the dome. My finger was on the trigger. But for some odd reason fat man driving was quicker than I thought. Grabbing me with his meaty hands.
Four sets of insect like bionic appendages with two yellow scraggly fingers and a large yellow ridged thumb on each appendage. While holding on to me he or it, held on to the steering wheel with one of the pairs of appendages. It molted it's disguise, revealing a cricket like insect being known as a Sikaytr, also know as Rubes, due to their ruby like eyes. The Rube, took my B-pistol with one of the longer appendages he had with him.
These beings are well trained bounty hunters that have no mercy. They see another being they are hunting for, just as another head on the table for those Beatles.
It pulled in front of the palace. For once in my life I am terrified. Never in my life have I bowed down to the Sultan (and I never will), but something unsettling grows in the depths of my stomach. Fear and regret. Where it came from I don't know, but one thing is for sure, Roul was on my mind. Like wild fire in a valley.
She was up there somewhere probably.....hating me...... like everyone else in this universe.
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Street Rats
Science FictionEvery day it's eat, sleep, steal. Eat, sleep, steal. EAT! SLEEP! STEAL! Alex is tired of it. His whole life he has been a street rat peasant on this miserable planet of Adentrine. He always wanted more. One day, this girl comes and takes him away wi...
