Revenant Slaves Chapter 61: Chapter 60: Ash

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After almost a few hundred similar ceremonies, they were all finally outside on the vast temple grounds, enjoying the feast all of the residents, both old and new ones, had prepared together. It was a general source of merriment, the kind Ash hadn’t seen his entire life. So many people of such vast backgrounds, laughing and celebrating together. Almost happy. A sad sting tore at his heart; Miru should have been here to see all of this. He should go visit her soon, and Rain would be waiting as well. He looked at Maya, ‘his wife,’ that’s what they called females, and he was the… ‘Husband,’ he finally recalled. He walked towards her; this tall, dark, beautiful creature was now bonded to him, and he was to her. Maya looked at him and smiled, “Husband, come, there’s a gift I prepared for you as well.” “Oh, you didn’t have to; I mean I didn’t give you a proper gift at all; Sanya was the one who handed that to me.” “That doesn’t matter; this is not really a wedding gift; this is more like me keeping a promise I made to your people a while ago.” She extended a hand towards him, “Come on.” Ash took the hand wholeheartedly, and Maya led him away from the temple and all the festivities. They climbed one of the shaky ramparts of the city’s collapsing walls. And overlooked the vast empty plains of Mortrum, dark as the night sky they were under. The moons of Mortrum were semi-visible; the Sovereign’s cities were dark in a lot of the places around the moon’s surface. Much more than they had been 2 weeks ago. “I promised to get your people off-world, didn’t I? The whole rebellion did. To show that we aren’t the same as the empire. We won’t force you to fight; we will save you first without any drawbacks.” “What do you mean?” “Just wait and look at the sky.” Ash waited for a few minutes, and then, like the roar of something vast and ancient, the quiet of the night was broken. It felt like the noise of a thousand Volcanoes exploding at once. The darkness of the night sky was split by four tiny suns hovering very close together. The closer the ship got, the more violent those suns became, until it was near enough that the wind grew hotter and blew furiously back at them. Maya stood there jubilant in the light of the 4 blazing suns descending upon them. While Ash clung to the supports for dear life. The sound of the violently approaching suns scared him to no end. As they got closer, Ash realized the blazing infernoes were attached to something larger, inconceivably larger. They were close enough now for Ash to calculate the trajectory of the incoming infernoes, which somehow seemed to be attached to some kind of engines blowing them out. Attached to 4 infernoes was a mountain; that was the only way Ash could describe it. A mountain of metal. It was as if someone had taken all the buildings in the city and stacked them atop each other in a vertical line. The mountain of metal touched down somewhere far away from Cinderwake but still too close for comfort. As it did so, enormous gusts of ash and dust rose up and blew away. Maya took off her head covering and wrapped it around both their faces as the gusts of ash and dust reached their position. Ash must have been terrified because Maya took one look at him under her scarf and said, “Don’t be scared, Ash; that is your people’s ticket off of this planet.” END OF PART 2 OF VOLUME ONE