Chapter 401: A message made
It felt like the week passed too quickly. Seven days flew by, and soon it was time for the last of his two classes to head out to the front lines. Kellen met them for their drinks in the cafe before they all headed off, went about the normal day of relaxed classes of target practice, before having to greet the first half of the class that had left.
Once again, Kellen hadn’t heard of anything negative happening to this class. Brent, in fact, had barely spoken to him this week. Kellen worried that it might have been something that he had done, until Rhys had told him that everyone who was on the front lines was communicating sparingly.
Apparently there had been a surge of power somewhere, and a few of the generators that were on the front lines had exploded. It wasn’t a completely uncommon thing to happen. Usually something involving the generators on the front lines happened about every 8 months or so.
The only strange thing about it was the age of the generators that exploded.
These generators were only a few months old themselves, having been brought out to the front lines by the Saturn Guild before Kellen had joined and right before the gate showed up. They shouldn’t have exploded, the older generators should have.
It was a curious situation, that Hill was looking into the situation, leaving Brent to kind of take on the position of Lieutenant while she was occupied with the investigation into the generators.
Kellen was a bit surprised to hear that, but was proud of the man. It explained his short responses, and the way he had sporadically responded to his questions and emails. He did worry if that meant he was too distracted to take proper care of his pupils, but as he hadn’t heard anything from other sources, i.e. scientists, Captain Sergei, other Field Guides. Kellen was sure things were going okay.
Plus, this was the week that the new fabric that Carlos had made was going to be made into new suits and sent to the front lines for them to test. Every second counted, so Captain Sergei’s team on the front lines was sewing them then and there.
Kellen was excited that things were going well, but that gnawing fear remained. If he was honest with himself, it hadn’t left since he realised what the gate was and how dangerous it was. It wasn’t going to leave until it was closed and dealt with.