DORULL STORIES - PRISONER OF THE AMULET
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It took less than a
minute for Avena Cinev to reach the transporter room situated in the exact
center of their mothership. The room was some five stories above the engine
chambers, and five underneath the control bridge. As instructed she completely
disassembled the SEMMB on six equal sized compartments. From what Nharsia just
explained to her, each one of them took care about housing and safety of
separated body functions. But once divided, there was no exit from the storage
device. The person would stay inside until each and every compartment was
assembled.
“Enjoy this beautiful planet,
maggot.” Avena grinned, placing the pieces on the transport discs.
Afterwards she entered random,
different coordinates, for each and every part of SEMMB. She did it so they
could end as far from each other as possible. She had purposely chosen the
deepest and the most isolated locations, to make sure no one could ever find
and free him.
“Enjoy the rest of your life,
maggot.” Avena smiled, as she initiated the transporter discs sending the
compartments into the unknown.
She wasted not a second, as she
turned around to leave the room. She was heading straight towards Nharsia’s
quarters. The chief overseer promised her an exclusive entertainment and
company in one of her personal SEMMBs. Avena wasn’t going to waste a second of
her time. Not only because of the opportunity to experience something new, but
for the chance to finally be alone with Nharsia. Their relationship was at this
point just a fling. They’ve only been twice together in the past four months.
Avena wanted to change that.
But she was only able to make
three steps, when a muffled rumble coming from below stopped her in her tracks.
All of a sudden, the entire place shook in a violent tremble that seemingly
wasn’t stopping. The floor itself began rising for almost a meter, as if
something was inflating it. It stayed like that for several short seconds,
creaking and popping, before it collapsed underneath Avena’s feet.
“Activate the armor.” she ordered
her defensive system, as soon as she realized the floors below also
crumbled “Full protection.”
Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed
the movement of the surrounding walls, as if some strange energy was rippling
through them. For a moment it appeared as if they were making some weird
howling sounds. But they were soon drowned in the cacophony of destruction, as
the walls started tearing apart. That was the least of her worries now, since
she then realized the enormity of the hole she was falling through.
It appeared to be several
kilometers deep. It seemed endless. Infinite. She could not peer through the
thick darkness below. Which was strange, and impossible, since she knew she
should be able to see the enormous ship’s drive. It was housed some three
hundred meters below the deck she was recently on. But it was nowhere to be
found now. Avena soon understood why, as she realized she passed through the
middle of space where the core once was.
Instead of it, there was now an
entrance to the apparently collapsing, artificial wormhole. The entrance was
undoubtedly created in the catastrophic reaction, which saw the destruction of
the drive itself. Once unleashed in the closed space, the unstable wormhole
immediately started devouring the ship, at the same rate as it was
disintegrating itself. Avena looked around, realizing it was pulling everything
within its mass, including her.
She hastily scrolled over the
menu, searching for any addon that could be of help. Trying to
find salvation. As if anything at her disposal could save her now. She became aware
of that, once she noticed her body assumed a similar shape to the surrounding
objects, deforming beyond recognition. It seemed surreal, and it certainly
was weird, since she could not feel any pain. Unbeknown to Avena, the med
support of her module blocked the pain receptors, in a desperate attempt to
protect her.
It was a last ditch effort to ease
her final moments. And it succeeded, granting her at the same time with the
temporary mind clarity. She began thinking of possible reasons for this
catastrophic event. Almost immediately connecting it with the geologist.
Nothing else made sense. He was the only unknown. It surely seemed he managed
to trick them all. For if he truly wanted to stop them, after he learned of
their plans for this world, his one and only option was this.
None of them even stopped to
assume the geologist feigned the escape. Knowing very well he’ll be transported
to Ganiwarthal after the capture. None of them stopped to wonder how strange
his resistance to the drugs was. Or that his still, frozen demeanor during the
interrogation, wasn’t due to fear. The geologist probably used that time to
somehow sabotage their mother ship. To find a way to completely destroy it.
“I’ll last longer than you.” were
Sanomis’ words she remembered right about then.
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