Gatewalker by Joanna Starr EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Joanna Starr
- Language: English
- Genre: Time Travel Science Fiction
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 3 MB
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DREAMWALKER
Merchants ceased trading, their hands pausing mid-air and the tinkling
coins they held becoming still. Men straightened their shoulders, hunting
the shadows for the threat. Women hugged their arms. Children stopped
playing, their laughter fading into echoes as they ran back to their parents’
sides. Sleeping dogs stood up, their ears pointed, noses twitching.
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A gust of wind lifted the magenta and saffron canopies stretching
between the coral-stone houses and shielding the market from the baking
sun. In the sudden gaps between the billowing fabrics, a rich blue sky
peeked through, and sunlight spilled down onto the quartz flagstones,
making them gleam.
The gentle breeze vanished. Sandalled feet paused. Smiles left peoples’
lips. The silence deepened. Nothing was heard. Nothing was seen.
All was felt.
The feeling screamed within those gathered: a feeling, a knowing,
shared telepathically—it spread through every one of them like wildfire.
Something is wrong!
But the people knew nothing could be done.
Thaya alone moved, stepping past mannequins that were people frozen
in fear, as if time itself stood still, until she reached the edge of the market
where the canopies ended and sunlight blazed unhindered upon the street.
Her eyes travelled up the smooth walls of the houses to the clear sky above.
Her hand lifted to shield her eyes from the sun, her golden painted nails and
jangling silver bracelets catching the light prettily.
Five sky ships appeared there, blatant, predatory and menacing in a
peaceful world. They sped silently above in a perfect chevron alignment
and moving so fast, she would have missed them had she blinked. Long,
tubular, and the size of three Lonohassan galleons lashed bow to stern, the
sky ships were mostly black in the sunlight. An unnatural, painful static
prickled the skin between her shoulder blades, and Thaya shuddered in
sudden revulsion.
She came to steps leading up the side of a house. In a daze, she gripped
the handrail and hauled herself up them, past a potted plant with draping
evergreen leaves, and up to a neatly swept patio on the flat rooftop
surrounded by a low wall marking the boundary of the house.
Other people already stood on neighbouring rooftops and patios, their
dresses and robes in shades of dandelion and marigold billowing in the
wind, their hands shielding eyes that were glued to the skies.
Thaya’s throat constricted.
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