Bad Luck Charlie (The Dragon Mage, #1)

by Scott Baron

“You think we’ll find any survivors in there?” “Nah. Not a chance, little brother.” “But the ship seems pretty intact. Maybe––” “Trust me on this one. I’ve seen this sort of thing before, and believe me, it’s not pretty. The ship was scuttled, which means violent decompression. Now sure, maybe some were in sealed compartments away from the breach, but then you have a mostly unshielded atmospheric entry, the temperatures of which would fry most beings, powered or not.” “That must be horrible.” “To say the least. Now, suppose those poor souls somehow survived both of those things. Unlikely, but for the sake of argument let’s just say they did. Well, these two segments here were not individually powered by Drooks, which means what slowed their impact was an embedded safety spell, likely put in place by either the ship’s designer, or the party paying for the cargo being transported. In either case, the concern was preserving the ship and its contents. Not the crew.” “So the deceleration––” “Would have crushed them to death well before they impacted the surface.

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