A New Reality by Clare Solomon

Author:Clare Solomon [Solomon, Clare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meroda Publishing
Published: 2019-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

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Elliot walked into the canteen with Barve and Lila and, now that she had joined their team, it felt like old times. He had told Lila about the previous timeline and how they had all been friends and she had said that she had had the weirdest sense of knowing him when they met, which gave him hope that Farlden might still remember something of their shared past. He was beginning to feel at home in this reality for the first time.

They collected food, which was of a far higher standard than what he remembered them eating at Uni, and sat down together. He raised his mug of tea only to notice Farlden sitting with Callie at the other end of the room. Just because they were talking again didn’t mean anything, he told himself, fighting a sense of unease. They might have agreed to stay friends or be currently working together.

“I know that shooting a ghost didn’t work but there must be some other kind of weapon that would kill them,” Lila said and Elliot tried to concentrate on the conversation, although he could not help glancing over at Farlden and Callie, wishing he knew what they were saying.

“That seems a bit extreme,” Barve said. “I mean, we’re not even sure they’re trying to harm us.”

“They’re driving people crazy. That’s not exactly a good thing to do.”

“But it could be unintentional,” Elliot said, making himself begin eating although he had no appetite. He deliberately turned his seat slightly more towards his friends, so he couldn’t see Farlden and Callie and worry for what was probably no reason. “That could be a result of them coming to this reality – like a clash of a negative and positive force – and they may actually want to make friends with us. Or they might not even want to come here and something is dragging them into this world, maybe something that we’ve done.”

“Like changing the timeline?” she asked, peeling an orange with fingers that had black polish on the nails.

He grimaced. “Exactly.”

“Hey, it’s not your fault,” Barve said, putting a hand on his arm. “Even if this is a result of what you did, that timeline had to be changed to protect the entire Nean race.”

“Barve’s right,” Lila agreed. “You did what you had to do to help people.”

“Except that now there’s the stupid Sapiens Purity Society that seems to be trying to get things back to how they were before.” He wished with all his heart that he could do something to put an end to such a hate-based group.

“The SPS didn’t exist in your world?” Lila asked with a raised eyebrow.

“No, but it didn’t need to. Neans had hardly any basic human rights and we didn’t know Izients existed, so the Sapiens had the control over everything and the power that mattered so much to some of them. Of course, it still didn’t stop them hating people of different colours or different sexualities. There were plenty of

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