The Scythian Crisis
Chapter One
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IT HAD BEEN DAYS SINCE the disaster yet everything remained in chaos. Cariad was exhausted. All her muscles ached and her hands were raw from helping with the relief efforts. Dragging the broken remains of buildings out of the mud left by the tsunami, constructing shelters, giving first aid... She’d forgotten most of what she’d done since the alien attack and subsequent deluge after the Nova Fortuna crash-landed in the ocean.
And while she’d worked, she’d been constantly tormented by memories of her techs, Florian and Cassie, and Giesen, the pilot, who had gone down with the colony ship. The first shuttle to arrive from the Mistral to transport the vulnerable out of danger had flown over the crash site. What the pilot had reported snuff
