Free Divine Deception: The Will Traveller Chronicals by Robert James Page B

going to take a
little over ten hours, just to reach the city/state of Alpine
Grand, from there we’d get directions to our destination.
    “These models have
a range of over thirty thousand kilometres, from a single-load up”
The co-pilot was explaining to Susan and I proudly. Zoran was fast
asleep back there with our eight man guard unit and the other two
crew members. The constantly surprising, extremely attractive woman
was proving to have considerable stamina as well.
    “So you can
actually circumnavigate the world non stop?” She asked
fascinated.
    “That’s right
Ma’am” He reported “There is only four others like it in the fleet”
He was a proud man, and with good reason. This craft was
specifically designed for personal use by the Patriarchs only. It
was faster, went further and carried more fire power than anything
ever designed and built on this planet before. It’s heat scopes
could identify a rabbit in the undergrowth, at night! To all
intents and purposes, the craft we were travelling in was
invulnerable
    “Except from them
laser ray things of yours Lord Robert” The friendly, thirty five
year old laughed softly. Susan used the navigator’s computer to
give me a geography lesson.
    She began with the
major State of Alpine Grand, before moving on to our destination
Carabindy Province. The New World’s third largest State, Alpine
Grand was not unlike Centropolis, in the ways that all community
centres or cities are alike. The big difference was where it sat,
high in a very mountainous part of the world. The weather and steep
local terrain had created many cultural differences, so that,
although, like all the New World States, the population had
originated from the same place, the people of Alpine Grand were now
very different from their lowland brethren, and proud of it! During
the snow half of each year, teams of hunters went far and wide on
skis and using dog and horse pulled sleds, to bring home their
always plentiful bounty, enough to last the rest of the year.
    They considered
themselves as the elite, in fact they were fitter and even
marginally taller than their recent ancestors. Also, it was from
Alpine Grand that many of the Supreme House’s top technicians had
been drafted. Carabindy Province, on the other hand, was so
un-famous that the co-pilot had never even heard of it. Susan
showed him where it was, but the highly trained navigator was
absolutely sure that couldn’t be the case.
    “That’s solid
jungle Ma’am, I’ve flown all over that area, few years ago, nothing
but solid jungle down there” The pilot told her.
    “Well I could be
wrong about it” Acquiesced Susan, then proceeded to fill me in on
the details of our final destination, Carabindy Provence.
    A favourite
hunting ground of the earliest Supreme Families, even though they
used to have to travel for almost a week just to get there. A sort
of Safari land, till, one day, some thirty years ago, when a young
member of today’s Supreme Family discovered traces of Aklodyte on
his hands after he returned from a hunt. Investigation showed the
world’s most valuable resource was truly abundant throughout the
area, so a settlement was created and nurtured, in order to both
mine and protect this asset of the people of the New World. In
essence, we were headed for a sort of frontier gold township of
some thirty thousand souls, only this gold was white and powered
almost the whole New World!
    “We’ll be in
Alpine Grand in around seven hours Robert” Susan spoke into my ear
“I’m going to get some sleep, care to join me?” She invited
huskily.
    “Only if you’re
going to get out of that uniform” I smiled as I spoke back into her
ear.
    “Your wish is my
command Lord Robert” Susan led the way back to a small but
comfortable cabin. Eventually, we did get to sleep.
    “Lord Robert” The
respectful voice accompanied a light tapping on the cabin door “We
will be in Alpine Grand in twenty minutes Lord Robert” The