A Tale of Lost Things by Bergen Cox

Author:Bergen Cox [Cox, Bergen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: X28
Publisher: Wyat Inter Publishing
Published: 2021-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

Klyron relived that cursed moment over and over in his head.

He was powerless to stop the inflow of awful data that ran through his mind. The shock paralyzed him every single time. The comfort of his orb home did not ease the agony of his soul. The tranquility of the orb home village did not quell the turmoil inside his heart. The weight of loss threatened his senses to jump over the roof’s railings and meet the concrete beneath.

“Let it end!” cried out Klyron at the vast open blue while his knees struggled to stand, “At least I’ll be with them…”

The idea of killing this torturous sorrow gained more and more appeal by the minute. All he had to do was bend over the steel pipes over the rail wall and jerk himself forward. A few seconds of fall, then a quick and sweet sleep. The thought’s intensity grew and he proceeded to attempt it.

Exactly then a piercing buzzing sound came in from the east where the morning’s sun was still rising. A black dot was there against the background of a sun’s soft shimmering red. The dot grew in size as did it’s sound until it played a loud roar and took the shape of a bi–verbal.

Klyron pulled himself back, stood straight, and observed the oncoming flying vehicle. It was a small passenger carrier, its outer shell made of transparent black metal enabling its riders to view the outside, but no one from the outside could peer at its interior. The bi–verbal stopped right beside the roof and latched its hooks onto several ports. The door slid down and fixed itself down from the bi–verbal to the rooftop.

A slender and short girl with elfin features and red hair walked through the pathway holding a VD reader in her hand, jumped and landed on the roof.

Klyron sighed heavily, then gazed back to the green horizon. “What the hell do you want?”

The girl said in a quivering voice, “I– I was watching you in the magnifier, your highness. Y– you were going to jump–”

“Silence! I don’t want to hear anything from you, Rosaline!”

Rose bit her lips as a wave of disgust towards herself shook her body. “I should be the one to jump, your highness.” Her voice trembled. “It was my blunder. It’s all my fault!”

She could not stop the wave of emotions any longer. Her vision went blank as tears filled her eyes. Sobs came out from the depth of her abdomen and she stood there, shaking. Then she felt a hand seizing her shoulder, squeezing to convey warmth.

Klyron’s voice was plain and dead as he said, “It’s not your fault, Rose. You’re not a god. There was no way you could’ve known.” After a few moments of pause, he continued, “It’s not my fault either. It was the fault of our luck! But the pain! It hurts so damn much!”

They remained there, letting the silence of nature engulf them whole.

After a long while, Rose said in a low

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