Eternal Horizon: The Chronicle of Vincent Saturn (Eternal Horizon: A Star Saga Book 1) Read Online Free PDF

and released their belts. “We must move!” he said, putting on a hooded jacket. He then threw another one to Vincent. “Here, wear this!”
    Vincent caught the jacket with Spaide’s words ringing in his ears, No one looks like you . These words terrified him as he stood there, not realizing that the Dirsalian was already in the faraway corner of the area. He donned the hoodie in haste, trying to catch up with his alien companion.
    “Make sure to screen your face!” Spaide cautioned.
    Deeply sighing, Vincent pulled the hood over his brow.
    Spaide led him to a contracted staircase, its walls and ceiling covered in mildew and cobwebs, vaguely lit by a few bulbs remaining inside this deserted edifice. They rapidly made their way down the stairs, jumping on the decaying steps that cracked beneath their feet and barely holding on the railings that fell apart at contact.
    “Where are we going?” Vincent asked, trying to keep pace. He felt like he was stuck in a perpetual moment of panic, following this stranger to God-only-knows where with millions of questions eating away at him. It was happening fast—too fast.
    “Just follow me!” Spaide simply replied.
    The stairwell spiraled down into a dark void, and only after a few minutes, they neared a source of light escaping through a door. Spaide kicked it open and peeked outside, his hand moving toward his revolvers. After making sure it was safe, he stormed out.
    They ended up in a narrow alley.
    “Hurry,” Spaide said, taking the lead.
    Vincent looked up at the clouds that formed a roof to the urban streets. It seemed that the density of the skyscrapers trapped the smoke and other gases of this huge city, splitting it into two hemispheres.
    The alley came to an end at the street through which the river made up of thousands of the planet’s residents flowed.
    “Okay.” Spaide stopped, slightly panting. “Let’s blend in with the crowd.”
    Vincent glanced around in awe as they made their way down the street, perplexed by the diversity of faces that passed by him: there were gigantic creatures over eight feet tall with purplish skin and flat noses; reptilian-like humanoids of different colors with scaly skin and vestibules instead of ears, tongues flickering on their jaws; green-and blue-skinned anthropoids, some with four arms, and others with many legs and some even had wings; multi-eyed and little creatures, most not bigger than a human baby; while others resembled animals—were, in fact, highly evolved animals. Robots, droids and cybernetic organisms mingled with the mass as well. Most of them didn’t pay the startled human any attention, but there were some that would make a coarse remark or shove him out of the way.
    Jets and bikes hovered above the crowd and over each other with no regulated traffic. Overpasses covered in billboards stretched from building to building, packed with more creatures traveling by their businesses and shouting into the swarm bellow.
    “Well, it’s not so bad down here either,” Vincent said, admiring the alien slums and comparing them to our most populous cities.
    “Stop starin ’ around!” Spaide cautioned while pulling Vincent by the wrist. “We have to go!”
    As they began to move further through the boulevard, sirens blared from above. Five of the police vessels began floating over the street, flashing down their beams.
    Vincent and Spaide jumped into the bustling part of the crowd, hiding behind a smelly pig-snouted creature.
    “Don’t look up,” Spaide warned.
    After a few seconds, the harassed inhabitants began shouting. “Get out of here, Imperial scum!” a voice yelled out, and a canister was cast at the vehicles. The mass started to move, disregarding the law. Giving up amidst such mutiny, the police jets made a small pass and disappeared into the clouds.
    “The Republic doesn’t have a tight grip down here,” Spaide explained. “Here, we can move freely and hide. But that doesn’t mean they won’t come