Severus's words of caution made her want to pee herself!! If the roar of one sandworm could sink a city then what about the roars of two sandworms that were fighting for dominance? Wouldn't they take down an entire planet?
"This is a minimal roar though, the effect has been reduced by a large margin. Still caution is the best way to go because this small earthquake is ignorable but the aning of the roar is not." Severus added.
"Call director Adler." she instructed her bracelet AI.
Elroy at her side was excited anwhile, "That's the first bellow sis, they do it three tis and then the space ship doors open like gigantic wings."
"Governor.." Adler started to say but she would not allow him to finish his words.
"Tell them not to do that bellow again or they can turn back right now." she shouted an order.
"Sis.." Adler changed from governor to sister really quickly.
"Now." she said sternly.
The second bellow was just starting, the roar was even louder than the first one and the ground shook much more than it had done the first ti. Scarlet worried about her Justin and the rest of the children. Maybe the other planets had asures in place to safeguard against earthquakes but they did not.
"Idiots!!!" Scarlet looked in the direction of the space ship as she held on to the side of the car.
"Don't worry sis, we all wear shoes with gravity stabilization soles. No matter what changes happen to the ground we stay perfectly in place."
Good for them! she thought while gritting her teeth. She was wearing ordinary shoes from earth, if the ground shook any harder she would find herself face down on the ground. And her cars!! she thought, they were ordinary cars from earth as well. Were they going to be destroyed just like this?
The silver pick up was shaking as if it would overturn at any mont, she had to find a way to get both herself and Elroy far away from it lest it crush them but the bellow stopped suddenly before she could say anything.
"Is it over?" she asked herself.
"One more bellow to go." Elroy said chirpily.
"Not on my watch." Scarlet mumbled. "Adler, warn them again, if they I hear that bellow one more ti I am going to have them arrested."
"Wait, what!" Elroy said in shock.
"You are on the line with the captain of this mission governor, he would like t know why you are forbidding the standard three bellow roar."
"My planet, my rules." she answered. "If you want to know more co and et right now, I am going to the watch tower to et general Esong. In the anti, open the space ships and let the people disembark, a welcoming committee will take it from there." she looked at Elroy and told him "Go and find our father I am sure that he will find sothing for you to do. Better yet, go ho and check on Justin and the other children. The earthquake must have scared them. If anything has collapsed, you send word to imdiately." When she was about to walk away sothing else crossed her mind and she gasped, "The farms!!! check on the plants too."
"Can I take the car?" he asked hopefully.
"No." she answered. "But you can check on the other cars and if they are still in one piece drive one away, one of the white ones." she tossed a car key at him.
From there, she drove the pick up to the watchtower which was a long white tube with an elevator inside that sent her five hundred forty ters up to a well constructed dium sized round building at the very top. The watchtower was sothing that Esong and his n installed, it ca already built and all they did was dig, install it with a machine and power it up. She had not been inside of it once.
Esong was waiting for her in here, he was using binoculars to observe the scene below of people disembarking from the ships and heading to the communications departnt temporary tent.
"Hi, we need to talk about that bellow or roar, whatever you want to call it." she said imdiately.
"Good to see you too." he answered. "Please do explain why you stopped the standard three bellow roar which is akin to a salute for the cha warriors and threatened to have my n arrested?" he looked unhappy with her actions. To him, she was looking down on the authority of the cha warrior army. That bellow was a symbol of authority for them, it warned the enemies and cald the hearts of the citizens by reassuring them that the liberators, their army had arrived.
"Do you know what makes that roar?" she asked him. Whatever significance it held to them, in her opinion it was much more dangerous.
He put the binoculars down and turned around to look at her. "Do tell." he said seriously.
Sobody else chose that mont to join them, a very tall man in the standard cha warrior uniform. He had the commonest black hair as most of the people in the empire did. His height and the scar on his cheek were the most eye catching things about him.
"Captain Jacks." Esong said with a smile.
"General Esong," the man replied and the two of them hugged. "It's so good to see you, I thought you were on a mission but you were busy playing house with your wife."
"Try getting married and talk to later." Esong answered and they both laughed. "This is my wife." he introduced Scarlet to Captain Jacks. "This is the craziest cha pilot in the empire, if you ever get involved in a fight with him, anything goes."
"I don't fight won." Captain Jacks held his hands back and laughed.
"I fight n." Scarlet answered. "And I am pretty good at it." she assured him.
"Believe her." Esong said, "She is a good boxer, and she was about to give more information on that bellow. I thought it was a computer generated battle cry passed down for centuries but she says different. I guess it's the roar of a mutated beast of so sort."
"A sandworm." she said and captain Jacks pissed her off by laughing at her words.
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