Flying the Storm (40 page)

That made sense. The warship would
give Tovmas the power he needed and then some. Aiden tried to piece out the consequences of that, but the soft haze of the pain drugs were making it difficult to think past the present. He leaned back onto the pillows and let his eyes close for a moment.

There was a shout outside the room, and running footsteps along the corridor. Another shout. Someone talking quickly, urgently. Aiden opened his eyes.

Fredrick went to the door then, slipping out. Hammit was on his feet, his fists balled by his sides.

A few seconds passed and Fredrick returned.

“The window,” he said, pointing. He reached it and tugged the blind open.

Aiden turned his head to look. The white daylight was painfully bright for a moment, but his eyes slowly adjusted to it and the glow faded. The window looked out over the city; northwards, he reckoned by the line of hills in the distance. It was in the north that something looked wrong. A cloud darker than the rest, maybe, above the hills. He squinted and let his eyes focus.

Fear
, so sudden and strong that it caught the breath in his throat.

High above the hills,
wreathed in smoke, the
Gilgamesh
was coming.

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Born and raised on the West coast of Scotland, Callum now studies Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, going on to begin a PhD in the Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory after the summer of 2014. He’s been scribbling stories from a young age, but had never really attempted a novel until
Flying the Storm
. People ask him how he’s had the time to write while studying for a Master’s degree… and he’s not sure how to answer that. It is quite possible he should have spent more time studying…

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