Chapter 4
“I’m going to do a little exploring, Sarah.”
Be careful, Hart.
“Are you picking up any life-forms I should be concerned about?” He thought about the shadow he’d seen. It had looked as if whatever had made it must be huge.
She was silent for a minute, a long stretch of time for her interface. I can’t tell. I captured an image of him.
He hadn’t told her to do that, but he wasn’t stupid enough to object. Scouts and pods worked together, trusted each other, or they never made it home. “Him? It’s a male?”
Yes.
“Show me.”
He caught his breath when the image appeared on the screen. The creature was humanoid, two arms, two legs, a head on top of a neck, but there the similarity to Hart’s race stopped. It wore no clothing but seemed to be covered with gleaming purple/black feathe
