Conquest ~ Indian Hill 3 ~ A Michael Talbot Adventure

Indian Hill 3: Conquest

INDIAN HILL 3: CONQUEST

Mark Tufo

Copyright 2012 Mark Tufo

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Dedications: To my wife, you make all of this happen.
Without you, my muse, I would have REAMS of nice clean unused white paper!

To Katherine Coynor, whose tireless work and super human eye for detail has helped to make this book as good as I can get it.

A special thank you to Lauren Dietz whose beautiful picture graces most chapter headers.

As always to the brave men and women of the United States Military, Thank You all for your sacrifice to our Great Nation.

Table Of Contents

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And So It Ends...

CHAPTER
O
NE
– Mike Journal Entry 1

Two weeks, two fucking weeks I spent in a hyperbolic chamber as the aliens did their medicinal magic on my
shattered teeth,
broken jaw, ribs, nose, left orbital socket, detached retina and a slight break in my shin. So the fucker had broken my leg when I took out his airway. Son of a bitch that he is
—
I mean was.

“I’ve learned a new term from your race
,
Mr.
Talbot
, tenacious
.”

My head swiveled to see from which area the voice came from. My gaze rested on a small speaker box set in the left side of my now semi permanent home.

“It’s me
,
M
ike
.” The small metal box issued forth, as if that were enough explanation. I had thought about answering but the mere thought of moving my jaw made me think twice. I had no desire to revisit that pain.

“It is I
,
your doctor (
he said it
like I
would
remember hi
m
)
,
and you can talk. You’re jaw is almost completely healed. I must say that you humans truly are a resilient species. Although not quite as hardy as the
Pr
ogerians or even the
G
enogerians
,
yet
you still seem to bounce back quickly from damage.”

“I’m glad that I can be of service
,
D
oc
,” I said
sarcastically and not much above a whisper. The doc might be right
,
but I wanted to be sure the parts moved well and without much pain before I started doing any operatic arias.

“You truly are a unique species, both delicate and strong
at
the same
time
. A small instrument inserted in the right spot can stop your heart in a moment but yet you can survive having
nearly
every bone broken in your body. You talk about you’re loathing of violence and warfare
,
yet it pervades every aspect of your culture
,
your entire civ
ilization
is predicated on warfare
. You talk of equality of all humankind while you step on the necks of those below you. Your art
,
your music
,
your spirituality have almost no rivals among the known universe but the vast majority of your kind would trade it all away for individual gain. You are altruistic to a fault, while self preservation reigns supreme.”

“Are you done with the semantics lesson,
D
oc
?
I’m still not feeling all that well.”