Xen Episode One
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She came here to keep the peace, but first she’ll have to break it....
When three aliens crash land on Earth, they must integrate to survive.
One of them can’t. A member of an ancient and astoundingly powerful race, she wasn’t born to sit still. She was born to protect.
On Earth, she can’t. So she waits, alone and without purpose, until her commander dies is a brutal and sudden crash. After years of inactivity, she is once more drawn into the hunt....
Irreverent, action-packed, and fast-paced, Xen is sure to please fans of Odette C. Bell’s Axira and Zero.
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Xen Episode One - Odette C. Bell
All characters in this publication are fictitious, any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Xen
Episode One
Copyright © 2015 Odette C Bell
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XEN
EPISODE ONE
She came here to keep the peace, but first she’ll have to break it….
When three aliens crash land on Earth, they must integrate to survive.
One of them can’t. A member of an ancient and astoundingly powerful race, she wasn’t born to sit still. She was born to protect.
On Earth, she can’t. So she waits, alone and without purpose, until her commander dies is a brutal and sudden crash. After years of inactivity, she is once more drawn into the hunt
….
Irreverent, action-packed, and fast-paced, Xen is sure to please fans of Odette C. Bell’s Axira and Zero.
Prologue
All three of them sat in the front seat of the pickup truck, staring up at the night sky above.
There were 10 trucks and cars parked in the meadow that night. While everybody else was outside, leaning on their bumpers, hands on their door frames, chatting excitedly as they listened to the radio, these three would not leave their vehicle.
One man, middle-aged, slightly balding hair rimming his round shiny skull, sat in the driver’s seat, staring with thin-lipped concentration at the dashboard. By the driver’s-side door was a tall, broad shouldered fellow in overalls and a checked shirt. With a mop of thick, black hair, he intermittently glanced at the driver and then up at the night sky above.
Pressed between them, with her hands on her lap, was a woman. In a thick woolen skirt and a light blue cardigan, she stared at her hands.
They listened to the radio. But they were not listening to the same station that the other cars parked in that meadow were tuned in to.
Any signal yet?
the man in the overalls asked, his voice low and husky.
The driver shook his head, never shifting his gaze from the dashboard.
Oh my God, can you hear that? That’s got to be aliens,
a woman outside said in an excited voice, her distinct Southern American accent making her words twang. She was standing near a car, waving to a young man, an excited but nervous look on her face. It was an expression that was shared by almost every individual there that night.
They’d come to this small field out in the rolling pastures behind the town for a special broadcast. The topic? Aliens.
Ever since the end of World War II, humanity’s fascination with the heavens had turned into mania. Unidentified flying objects were reported every other day, whole magazines and digests were filled with fantastic stories about abductions and sightings, and UFO had entered the common vernacular.
Any light in the sky was cause for nervous hope.
The broadcast is about to begin, Gerry.
The woman outside the car waved again at the young man. Stop playing with your cigarettes, and get over here.
"I’m not playing with my