He recognized the easy gait of a familiar Mechanic and crew member: Coren. But when another shadow crossed his path-this one belonging to a two-headed whale-like creature swimming over the dome-his eyes and thoughts turned back to the ocean serving as their sky.Ī soft clicking, like someone tiptoeing across the stone pathway, sounded behind Tag. It had the wispiness of cotton candy, and Tag couldn’t help but wonder what it was. They stopped to talk and eat something with a pungently saccharine odor, far too sweet for Tag. Two Mechanics strolled next to a freshwater stream gurgling near the pathway.
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It was a gracious wonder that so many of them had survived in these cities and on land, taking to cover and hiding when the Drone-Mechs swept their world, commanded by some unseen Drone-masters to vanquish the free Mechanics. Tag’s Mechanic allies had discovered that the air recycling nanoparticles gave residents who had lived in these environments for years acquired immunity to the mind-slaving nanites that overrode their brethren’s normal neurological function. Most of the Mechanics in the bubble cities had been saved from the scourge of the nanites. Mechanics striding along the streets gave Tag the occasional curious glance, and their soft chatter followed in his wake. The polyglass and alloy structures reinforcing the gargantuan bubble creaked under the weight of the ocean, accompanied by the soft sounds of artificial breezes caressing the parks and city beneath it. Soon the beast followed the curve of the bubble back down, disappearing behind the silhouettes of buildings covered in black sheet-alloy that made up the Mechanic city of Deep Origin Its shadow passed over the spiral trees and bunches of bush-like vegetation in the park Tag walked through. His eyes followed the sea monster as its tail whipped in circles, akin to a propeller, pushing its rotund, cilia-covered body. A beast roughly the size of an SRE strike fighter craft passed above him, skirting upward along the massive polyglass bubble protecting Tag from the ocean’s crushing pressure. Millions upon millions of tons of salt water teemed with all kinds of sea creatures, vague analogues to the denizens of the deep found on Earth.
The faint glimmer of Meck’ara’s sun filtered through the ocean above Tag Brewer, a commander in the SRE navy and former chief medical officer, now captain of the SRES Argo. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to locales, events, business establishments, or actual persons-living or dead-is entirely coincidental.
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