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Rain God

ISBN 9781419918858

Edited by Shannon Combs.

Cover art by Syneca.

Electronic book Publication December 2008

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R AIN G OD

Amy Ruttan

Chapter One

America, 2100 A.D.

Shana held up the turquoise to the bright desert light. The blues were so rich and

deep in this stone. The blue-green color was like the mythical oceans of long ago, as it

refracted the red sand and stone of the buttes and mesas that surrounded her and her

surveillance dig.

“Beautiful,” she whispered to herself as she twirled it between her dusty, slender

fingers. Goose bumps traveled up her arm as the words slipped past her lips. Try to

focus Shana. You’re not here to marvel at old relics, you’re here for water. She was head of

water reconnaissance for this sector of the world.

When she had been growing up she had heard tales from her great-grandmother

about how the world had been covered with water, and that there were two great caps

of ice that covered the top and the bottom of the Earth. Such a wondrous vision, it had

inspired Shana to strive to become the head of water reconnaissance for the American

desert land. The hunt for the precious commodity was the most thrilling, exciting job

for a young person fresh out the Interstellar Academy.

Save our dying world. It was the motto she lived by. It paid her well, she got the most

water rations than any other job she could have pursued in the Academy and it allowed

her to travel and explore the flat desert plains.

She just wished that she could find water.

Shana shook her head, she tucked the turquoise stone into her pouch and zipped it

up so she wouldn’t lose it.

“Commander Kelley.”

Shana looked over her shoulder, flipping her visor back down in place. It was

strictly forbidden to expose your eyes to the overbright sun in the desert plains. It could

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cause serious damage and the Interstellar Academy didn’t want to take any risks with

their water reconnaissance team. It was bullshit. She had been using her sight without

her visor for years. It was the only way she could really survey the land. The only way

she could find the ancient grooves that scarred the dry parched Earth. The grooves that

told her water had once flowed there.

“Commander Kelley.” The young cadet just fresh out of the Academy saluted and

held himself rigidly at attention. “Ensign Johnson reporting for duty, Ma’am.”

Smiling, she admired his tight physique in the body-hugging suit that protected

him from the sun’s heat and its radiation working on the desert plains. He was too

young really for play. She had no time for that.

Shana stood up and circled the young ensign, asserting her power over him as

commander. Just as her commander had done to her twelve years ago when she had

been eighteen and fresh out of the Academy.

“At ease, Ensign Johnson. What do you have to report?”

“An entrance to an underground cave. Lieutenant Meyers thinks that it could lead

to a possible mythical underground water source.”

A smile tugged at Shana’s lips, this is just what I need . She never dreamed, never

hoped that she would ever find one of the entrances to the mysterious caverns that

contained underground lakes. Another one of her great-grandmother’s myths about

ancient times, just like the story how the past timers would actually bathe in the water.

Water had been that abundant. Shana found it hard to believe.

“Take me to him, Ensign, and if this is true I’ll have you promoted to lieutenant in

no time.”

Ensign Johnson tried to suppress his smile as he saluted her again. “Thank you,

Commander. This way, if you please.”

Suppressing a giggle, she followed the exuberant ensign down the craggy hill in the

shadow of a mesa toward the midpoint of the plane that they had been surveying. She

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