“No problem,” he replied, distractedly. “I’ll be down here if you need me.”
Rogan and Klik followed Jack up the stairs and into the cockpit. It seemed oddly empty without Brackitt tending to the dashboard. A worrying thought struck Jack. Who would fix the ship when she broke something now?
He peered out her windows. The purple streaks of nebulas provided a breathtaking view, but otherwise he could see nothing out of the ordinary.
“What is it?” he asked. “What are we looking for?”
A blue star-map popped up from the Adeona’s hologram table. A small dot pulsed somewhere out in the middle of nowhere.
“These coordinates are in almost the exact same spot as where we picked Jack up after he first came through the wormhole,” said Rogan. She grew concerned. “But the time stamp is from only a few hours ago. Why are you showing us this, Adi?”
“Well, when I said I needed you to come look at something,” the ship replied, “what I really meant was listen.”
She played a message over her speakers.
“…hear us? I repeat, do any other Arks read me? …en route to… This is Admiral Blatch of the… calling all…”
The Adeona switched the message off before it could loop back on itself. It was a jumbled, garbled mess full of hisses and pops, clearly recorded on some very old tech.
Rogan slowly turned to Jack, her face frozen in shock.
“That broadcast,” she said, “was in English.”
Jack opened and shut his mouth like a goldfish. There were too many words trying to squeeze out all at once. He turned and slumped into the nearest chair.
“Oh my God,” he eventually managed. “The Final Dawn. She made it.”
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T.W.M. Ashford is a British novelist living in London. You can call him Tom.
He's written hundreds of scripts and copy for some of the biggest companies in the world, and provides a variety of creative content for Mark Dawson’s Self Publishing Formula. He’s even been known to play a bass guitar on occasion.
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Books By T.W.M. Ashford
Books in the “Final Dawn” Series
The Final Dawn
Thief of Stars
A Dark Horizon
Other Books
Everything Ends
Blackwater: Vol. One
Checking Out
Mouth of Midnight
Blackwater: Vol. Two
The Portrait Lingers Like a Whisper
Blackwater: Vol. Three
Checking Out: Clockwise
Checking Out: Anticlockwise
Gerald Oddman
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