Chapter 154 - EVO
***Tirnanog, Aerie Scoutship***
***Magnus***
The caravan consisted of five adult saherna and seven juveniles. However, it had to be said that the juvenile’s size still rivalled buildings with four or five levels. Seeing a herd of those monsters made me question all over again how creatures of such size could even exist without crumbling beneath their weight.
On the other hand, questioning their size went with the assumption that their body plan followed what I was used to. Too large to pump all that blood with a single heart? Just use more hearts! Regular bones can’t carry the weight? Have them reinforced with ceramics... or whatever... I wasn’t so savvy in biology.
This reminded me that since my bones were using the saherna mutation, Astra and I should probably do a little research into how much punishment we could take. She went to extreme lengths with her stupid experiment to break her arm.
“If our information is correct, then this would be the Southikes,” Vanya commented while looking through a spyglass. Her set of mutations wasn’t suited for long-range information gathering.
That said, neither was mine, so I too had to rely on tools. In my case, it was the range finder of the anti-air gun I liberated from one of Thich’s airships.
I knew a simple spyglass would have fulfilled the same purpose while being smaller, but the range finder was so retro that I could not avoid using it when I got the chance. The thing was cool and after a bit of trial and error, I found out how to use it correctly. All I had to do was to adjust the central scale on an object with a known size, for example, a human, and done. Approximately 4.9 kilometres. It wasn't super exact, because it was dependent on the accuracy of my reference point, but it got the job done well enough.
Next to us, seekers Holly and Luka voiced their affirmations for Vanya.