The Cold Wind (Ch 46 - End)
Chapter Forty-Six * * * "Alright, spread out," Crystal whispered into her communications link to the other warriors in her vicinity. She winced when somewhere, off in the distance, there was another muffled «_Whump!_» when some unlucky warrior set...
The Cold Wind (Ch 08 - 10)
Chapter Eight * * * After rendezvousing back at the shuttle, they quickly stowed their gear. Stowing the two unconscious humans proved to be more problematic. It was Tusker who first realized the issue. "We should tread carefully. These humans are...
The Cold Wind (Ch 05 - 07)
Chapter Five * * * Pointing a talon at a spot on one of the small view-screens, Crater leaned over and yelled at Slash-To-Kill who was wrestling with the controls of their cramped vessel through the howling chaos of their meteoric descent. "This...
The Cold Wind (Ch 01 - 04)
Preface * * * In order to make this whole novel more readable and so that you can concentrate on the story and the characters, I have endeavored to blend as much of the technobabble into the background as possible. Rather than coming up with lots of...
The Cold Wind (Ch 39 - 45)
Chapter Thirty-Nine * * * "Tainui asked me a rather strange question today," Two-Talon mentioned to Hunts-In-Grass while they lay together in the sleep-webbing that evening. The warrior turned to him in the darkness. "What did he say, lover, hrrr?"...
The Cold Wind (Ch 35 - 39)
Chapter Thirty-Five * * * During the following days, at his lover's request, Hunts-In-Grass attempted every method he could think of to try and locate the human. Although Dark-Mist professed ignorance about the human's location he wasn't fooled even...
The Cold Wind (Ch 30 - 34)
Chapter Thirty * * * "_Why can't I see him?_" Tainui was becoming increasingly frustrated by the unresponsive _New Home_ warriors standing guard outside his room. He knew damned well they could understand him because they had the small, translucent...
The Cold Wind (Ch 26 - 29)
Chapter Twenty-Six * * * It took another few hours to get the last generator installed and connected into the shuttle's controls. Once completed the four of them stood around the cockpit control console, looking at each other uncertainly....
The Cold Wind (Ch 21 - 25)
Chapter Twenty-One * * * "I was a junior medic stationed at some military training facility on some awful planet that I have difficulty even remembering the name of anymore. There was an accident; a troop transport had crashed on take-off into another...
The Cold Wind (Ch 18 - 20)
Chapter Eighteen * * * Moving swiftly, Two-Talon returned to the shuttle and laid the injured Vanguard on the table in the mess, before stripping the tattered uniform off the unconscious body. Running his talons lightly over the body he gently skirted...
The Cold Wind (Ch 15 - 17)
II Chapter Fifteen * * * From out of the vast darkness of interstellar space, the Vanguard cargo shuttle coasted toward the light and warmth of an unremarkable yellow star. On board, several banks of computer consoles came to life, set to activate...
The Cold Wind (Ch 11 - 14)
Chapter Eleven * * * Tainui and Andrej broke their embrace when the creature came storming through the door again, not bothering to close it while it approached them. Sharing an apprehensive look they could see it was clearly quite agitated from the...