Fragment powieści "Crosscurrent"

Paul S. Kemp zamieścił na swoim blogu krótki fragment powieści Crosscurrent, nad którą obecnie pracuje. Jej głównym bohaterem będzie Jaden Korr - znany fanom z gry Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Wspomniany fragment znajdziecie poniżej.

“Put us in geosynchronous, R-6,” he said, and the droid complied.

Jaden stared out and down the cockpit’s window as the planet rotated into day. Light filled his cockpit, washed over the planet's surface by increments, unveiling a quilt of clouds floating over the red, orange, and tan of vast deserts, the blue smear of an ocean, the spine of a mountain range that ran the length of the main continent. To Jaden, it was like watching the slow reveal of a masterful work of art, a sculpture of earth and water, wondrous in its lonely, whirling trek through the emptiness of space. He always tried to see a starcrest from orbit before setting foot on a planet. He wasn’t sure why – maybe he wanted to see every world in its best light before putting down on its surface.

Unbidden, he recalled a starcrest over Corellia that he’d seen from a viewport aboard Centerpoint Station as he and his strike force had moved through the metal maze of its corridors.

He dismissed the memory quickly, pained by the realization that his actions on Centerpoint had polluted even this, one of the small pleasures he had long enjoyed.