Strange Land (The Young Ancients Book 15) by P. S. Power Read Free Book Online Page B

better than the others, and refused all help or aid from them. Waiting for divine intervention to come. Even the other Tellerand people had seen through that one though. What more help could be expected than for food to literally appear to them, coming from the sky itself? That part had been sad, since there were children in each of those places too. There wouldn't be for a lot longer, she feared.
    Most had taken the help, hunger pushing them to it, no matter who they were or what they believed.
    Roget, for his part, settled in the same seat that he'd been in before, and didn't speak. To be exact, he muttered something that seemed like more prayers, but Sara finally got to ignore the man for a bit, and didn't do the same, focusing on her own task.
    Her hand rested gently on the pitted brass stone that was the main control for the entire ship. Rather than try to fly the other way, she rounded the edge of the world below her, the blue and white showing that there was a large storm over Soam. Not one of the land destroying ones, but big enough that it was a swirl of fast moving clouds. Hopefully everyone there would be all right. They were good people, but for some reason they'd been particularly hammered by the wicked and insane Ancients that had tried to kill them all.
    The whole thing was pretty from space though.
    Making the readjustments she needed, and slowing the tan craft above the capital, Sara drifted downward. It seemed slow and peaceful, but was actually taking place at thousands of miles per hour. She could have pushed it to do more, but didn't bother. It was early in the day, and if she got in too quickly King Richard might want her to report immediately. She at least wanted a bath first. Going to the palace dressed as she was might have been a great joke, for someone else , but no one would go in reeking like she was, if they could help it.
    By the rules she had to get in touch as soon as she safely could, but no one had ever mentioned that doing so by communications device was off limits. Technically she also needed to have a good reason to visit, being a spy and all that sort of thing. She used to have a handy Prince she could visit for that sort of thing there. Alphonse. He was living on Harmony now though, so that was out. She tried to think of a good reason to go and visit, but nothing came to mind really.
    Finally, landing on the north side of the city, since it was closer to the main Debri house, Sara decided to just call in and report, pretending that Terry had asked her to. That would make her a kind of emissary, she supposed, but... wasn't she? She'd been doing all that work at his request, so he could at least back her up on this one, couldn't he? Grinning tiredly, she decided that would work well enough.
    If it didn't she could always offer to have sex with the King. He'd never done that with her, and it was reaching way above her station to just show up for that kind of thing, but she really didn't have anything else to go on for the moment. She'd been out of the loop for a quarter of a year. Who knew what was going on at the moment?
    It took a bit of focus on her part to get the craft to shrink down without crushing Roget. The man was fine, really, but part of her kind of wanted to. He was just too cold and indifferent to her all the time. As if he were better than she was. He didn't even look at her in more than passing, almost as if he were trying to be rude. No one in Noram would have acted like that with her. Not while they were working together for months at least. Some of the commoners were shy like that, but it wouldn't have lasted once they knew she was trustworthy and trying to help their people.
    All of the Tellerand men had been like that though. Not just with her, but all of the women, even their own. They acted in a patronizing fashion, and the women just took it. Meekly. Yes, she knew that one herself, since she had to do that as well from time to time, but not with everyone .
    Trying