Through the Stars, Darkly – Chapter 76

A Space Opera Serial // When sun and sand make flee a man.

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The creature moved slowly through scrawny bushes and straggly trees. Sunlight glistened on its dark brown scales, like ripples on the surface of a lake—though there was no water here as far as the eye could see.

Its claws sunk into the cracked earth as it swayed its tail in the cool wind. Another step an…