“The Tremors of Squirm (part of The Langford Joh Saga)” by William Alan Rieser
10/20/2004
Malorchia was content, savoring the newness of her first birthling on Pollis as Iron Feather steered his craft out of the Equuid system. Now that the most important and personal matters had been attended to properly, it was time to police the quadrant for the Confederation.
The first order of business was for Iron Feather to check in with his father via a privately established communicator. Langford Joh gave out very few of them, for the Prail technology was based upon their own nerve impulses from the days before the Prail became pure energy beings. Captain Iron Feather was permitted a device because of their father-son relationship. He pushed the green button and waited patiently for Langford’s image to appear on a floating screen by his command chair.
No Comments » | 
Science Fiction | 
Permalink
Posted by Editor