Chapter Five
The problem of the Scythian hunting spiders had been bothering Wilder for ages. Since early that morning, she’d been studying one of the devices that she’d ‘borrowed’. But time was getting on. Her appointment with the Leader was soon and before the meeting she wanted to take some vids of her little hamlet to show him.
Wilder put down the spider, its sharp claws bound in rags, and piled more rags over it. Then she searched for her interface, mulling over the hidden Scythian device.
After the colonists had carefully cleared them from the underground settlement and emerged onto the surface, the sheer numbers of the devices the Scythians had dropped became apparent. They littered the forest floor, creating a bizarre carpet of silvery, angular, razor sharp undergrowth.
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