Chapter Three
It didn’t take long for Sergi to find the tracks the alien had left. Cutting between trees, he maintained a parallel path to the tracks, and slowed his pace when he saw a break in the trees up ahead. So far, except for the alien and the spaceship that had flown overhead earlier, he hadn’t seen any signs of life. The ground varied from hard rock to slushy mud. The trees were all the same dark ash color and devoid of leaves. He didn’t know if they were alive or dead. The driving rain was just as intense as it had been when he’d left the pod an hour and a half before. The sky was a blanket of dark clouds in every direction. He wondered if it ever stopped raining in this place.
The terrain was dotted with large boulders, and he had found a few places where he could create a tem
