Jaydium - Chapter 33
Feb. 15th, 2013 10:58 amDeborah J. Ross: Jaydium - Chapter 33
The elegant spaceport towers lay in ruins, and those ships that had not already taken off had been reduced to splinters. The cream-colored pavement, designed to withstand the exhaust of the massive freighters, was peppered with blast craters. A few gastropoids moved slowly about the wreckage, pausing at the larger piles of debris. Above it all, the sky that had once been as clear as Ocean-of-Light glowered a deep, murky red.
The elegant spaceport towers lay in ruins, and those ships that had not already taken off had been reduced to splinters. The cream-colored pavement, designed to withstand the exhaust of the massive freighters, was peppered with blast craters. A few gastropoids moved slowly about the wreckage, pausing at the larger piles of debris. Above it all, the sky that had once been as clear as Ocean-of-Light glowered a deep, murky red.