Chapter 40: Flower extract.

Chapter 40: Flower extract.

OUTSIDE THE DELINTERS roared their frustration, plowing into the craft with renewed fury of a lost meal.

Keeping himself stabilized, Nigel braced his feet, absorbing the violent lurches. He stayed upright, his gaze sweeping the interior for new dangers. The space vehicle violently pitched and rolled, hurling them one way and then the other.

Apparently, Peltratria possessed no balancing skills. The silly sod stumbled, pitched into one wall, and face-planted metal with a sickening thud. The royal scrambled, his limbs flailing, before finally catching himself just in time to slam into the opposite side of the tube. Eventually, the alien got to his knees, whimpering as he clutched a set of pipes near one wall.