Metal Swarm
Chapter One
ORLI COVITZ
An unending swarm of giant beetlelike Klikiss poured through the
transportal on Llaro for days, marching from some unknown, distant
planet. During the initial panic, Mayor Ruis and the Roamer
spokesman Roberto Clarin had issued a futile appeal for calm among
the people. There was nothing more they could do. With the Klikiss
controlling the transportal, the colonists had no way to leave
Llaro. They were trapped.
The horror and shock gradually dulled to hopelessness and confusion.
At least the creatures hadn't killed anyone. Yet.
Alone on a barren hill, Orli Covitz stood looking toward the
termitemound ruins and the colony settlement. Thousands of
intelligent bugs moved over the landscape, investigating everything
with relentless, alien curiosity. No one understood what the Klikiss
wanted-with the exception, perhaps, of the strangely haunted
Margaret Colicos, the long-lost xeno-archaeologist who had spent
years among them.
Presently, the fifteen-year-old girl saw Margaret trudging up the
hill toward her accompanied by DD, the Friendly compy who ha ... read full excerpt from: Metal Swarm: The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 6 (The Saga of Seven Suns #6) ebook
