Forsada: Volume II in the New Eden series (33 page)

“Let’s go,” Dane calls from the doorway. “Leave him.”

Dane would have refused.

“He’s dead, the poor idiot. But he can rest now.”

Wouldn’t he?

I walk faster to catch up to Dane as he hurries down the ramp to the giant track left behind by Darius’ sled. He gives one glance back at the chapel, his face empty of emotion but full of urgency.

“Let’s help the others while they’re still alive, huh?”

Moments later, as we run along the hard-packed, frozen mud road, the dead man’s urgent pleas fill my thoughts. Only Semper can grant absolution. But if I’d had that power, would I have used it?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Peter rarely uses his Electrical Engineering degree from Berkeley these days. Instead, he writes adventure fiction, short stories, and light verse when he's not coaching or playing soccer, camping with his boys, or brewing beer. He has a day job as a corporate social responsibility executive, running the nation's largest workplace charitable giving campaign which raised over $60 million for charity in 2012. In his career, he's worked on the B-2 bomber, the first PDA (Casio “Zoomer”), and the first smart phone (Nokia 9000). A Connecticut native, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two sons, and two cats. He can be found on Twitter at
@dudleypj
and on the web at
www.peterdudley.com
.

Visit his
author page
with other books he’s appeared in, including
Extinct Doesn’t Mean Forever
, and the
SFWC Anthology
.

The “New Eden” series begins with
Semper
, and culminates with
Freda
available online and in print. Details can be found at
www.peterdudley.com
.