Vol 5 Chapter 32 (1/2)

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at 11th of August 2019 10:04:50 PM

Chapter 32

Book 5, Chapter 32 - Agricultural Community

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Outside of Greenland the landscape was rife reckageCloudhawk’s fledgling territory was a place encased in ancient ruins

These ruins were different from the sort around SandspireThose hat remained of an ancient industrialplantsSo vast was it that even to this day scavengers were still pulling out valuable pieces of equiph the ruins at the borders of Greenland were similarly vast, they were merely as left of an ancient city

Cities had relatively fewer ite to be excavatedWhat’s more, the environment outside of the oasis itself was quite harshA thousand years of erosion and the blazing sun have reduced what could be used to ruin

Now the wreckage had becoround for all e creatures were a co husks of buildingsThere were also hordes of infected things and feral er lurked around every cornerNo one was eager to live in such a place

However, it was aof use out thereIt was large enough that ten Greenland Cities could fit inside, a coed skyscrapers

Ordinarily it made for a fine protective buffer between the outside world and GreenlandDangers froh such an inhospitable placeNow as the city grew, they found that the ruins were also a good place to install hidden watch postsIf an invading power tried to sneak up on them Greenland would knoell in advance and could prepare

Daas seated uncoelica in her lapThe vehicle took her away from Greenland and as they crossed the enchantment’s border the vast ruins spread out before her

She looked at it ide eyesThe world was a swath of rusty yellow that stretched far into the distanceBroken re were laid here and there, fallen lorious they used to be, now they were only piles of metal and concrete, barely discernible from the sand that half-sed them

She had to ask herself; is an Elysian still an Elysian when they left home?

Dawn peaked over the side, at the expanse of ruins that flowed beneath herIt was a vision thatSkycloud and taking shelter with Cloudhawk, but she wasn’t aloneA hundred ed family had followed her out into this placeWhat was in store for theht on Dawn’s h the following months, however, and as tie really was

Arcturus Cloude was a cunning geniusThere had to be a reason why he hadn’t culled the weeds in his garden, allowing Dawn and Cloudhawk to liveAfter all, if he wanted theh to see it done

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Ever since committed herself to this course, Dawn had come up with a number of schemes and plans to make Arcturus payNone of them seemed plausible, none of them offered any hopeAnd if there was no hope, what point was there in sticking to a doo, but she was afraid for Cloudhawk and the others

Roc broke into her reverie with a quiet word“We’re nearly there, Miss”

Dawn nodded and prepared herself

The Polaris faed a lotRoc remembered that the Dawn of yesteryear had never kept secretsLawless, reckless, always free with her thoughts and e over soWhen she took action, she did so much more carefullyWas she even the same devil woman everyone in Skycloud had tiptoed around?

A lot had changed when the general died

If he’d lived to return to Skycloud, Daould have continued to live happily under his guidancePerhaps Cloudhaould have taken his post as general and married DawnLife would have looked so ain into silence as the plane made its descent somewhere on the borders of Greenland

Dawn dise the ruinsIt was clearly a spot that was carefully chosenOn all sides the husks of buildings were heaped up tall as mountains to form a sort of border wallThere was no way in or out, except vertically

Inconvenient, but safeWandering wasteland critters wouldn’t trouble them here

Central to this isolated area was a cae sizeWith some work it could easily be converted into a station for ten or twenty thirty thousand people

With the help of Terrangelica and the Heart of the Mire, Dawn had already terraformed the area as neededNot only was it perfectly flat, but the soil was also soft and ready to be tilledAnd that was exactly what they would do here, in Greenland’s first agricultural coet up and running

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“Miss Dawn, you’ve arrived”

A bespectacled elderly scientist greeted herHe welcoh he didn’t know her whole background her worth to Greenland was unassailableThrough her efforts Greenland City’s infrastructure had exploded into a period of unprecedented growthThat was enough to earn everyone’s respectIf these agricultural co the people all the ainst her shoulder and looked over the area“How are things coher on the bridge of his nose“Very smoothly, Miss, very smoothlyOur first test field has already produced a yieldPlease, come see for yourself”

Dawn allowed herself to be led to where they’d begun planting cropsThe whole thing was covered in white plants