Fiction: Death on Dark Wings p9

Standard procedure has dictated the landing of the 001st's second craft
before Korgeshs, to prevent suicide attacks against an officer of his
standing, but both craft landed without incident, and the scro poured out.
Crossbows in hand, the warriors and sergeants swarmed over the landing deck.
No sign could be seen of the wyvern now, the elves apparently using their
own illusions to make it appear all was well on the deck from afar, which
warned Korgesh and the 001st's captain Chajak that not only were the elves
attempting to conceal their numbers and abilities, but that they had studied
scro signals long enough to fake the replies the corporal left with the
beast would have made.  After a standard search of the decking was complete,
the unit descended into the armada, passing through room after room, the
arboreum, and the room where a battle with three marauders had been fought.
One scro lay dead here, but it was obvious any battle enough to fell Durren
and Lekahn would have left much more devastation, and so as they had already
passed the gravity plane the only action left was to go up.



            But the elves would be expecting that.



            Korgesh signalled with his hands, sending several warriors to
fetch a wide but short cupboard in an area of the room that had taken little
damage.  With as little noise as possible they hoisted it onto their
shoulders and ran it across the room stopping below the stairs above, where
they braced one end against a crack in the floor that had been the roof.
They lifted the other end of the cupboard, which was some 20 feet long in
width, back upon their shoulders, several of them kneeling and others
stretching their arms to the full extent, and with another hand signal half
of the 001st scrambled up the makeshift ramp into the room above.





and here ends the story until I finish the rest - I just wanted to see what
people thought so far.





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