by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Fate of Rebels The room was beautiful in a bare-stone sort of way, but I hardly noticed it at first. My mind was racing over the possibilities and implications of Ryonel’s story. I didn’t want to stay cooped up while the guys were...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Gods of Nedan It was necessary for Leon and I to go to different quarters, but now that I was resigned to the fact we couldn’t leave immediately, my focus was on how best to survive our current circumstances. We needed to appear...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients A Terrifying Solution A quick orbit of the moon revealed nothing but dust, craters and abandoned ruins of space stations. It appeared as if the war had reached the moon and moved on many years ago. I brought up a scan of the portal map on my...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Leaving it All Behind We had two days left to get ready and one day to make the trip to the moon. Five fighter ships went to Mars and the three to Saturn. All of us had the same mission: to reach our destination, ascertain if that planet could...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Portal to Another World Our ship had been damaged in the backdraft of Earth’s burn. The E-fleet Base had taken a direct hit from a ground-based Direct Energy Weapon before we reached it and there was nothing left but debris, some of which hit...
by Connect | Jan 3, 2020 | Bell of the Ancients
The Bell of the Ancients Eden Lost My brother had been piloting combat aircraft remotely since he was barely old enough to read. When the recruiters showed up at our house to solicit him with a fast track to Captaincy, they couldn’t believe my twelve year old...