lgsimons

Prologue SSD 12 June 6022; local date 28th of Harvestfall (November) BOOOM! The explosion blasted through the drive cabin of the logging truck, smoke and fire thundering concussively against the passengers, the walls, the ceiling, reverberating back in the tight, enclosed space and pounding them again. The windshield and side windows exploded in a thousand shards of gleaming crystal. Cayde Yarwick, sitting in the front passenger seat, was hurled against the door frame, the seat restraints cutting into his shoulders. He yelled in pain even as it was lost in the explosion. He quailed as flame rushed over him, the searing heat sweltering and suffocating. He worked desperately at the latch to his webbed harness, but the panic in his mind seemed to cause his fingers to not work. There! He felt the release button click. The great juggernaut of the log carrier skewed violently off the rough logging road, the eight huge, heavily lugged wheels smashing and crashing through a grove of younger