Abysm by Jennsen G. S
Author:Jennsen, G. S. [Jennsen, G. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: scifi romance, Science Fiction - Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, space travel, sci-fi space opera, Science Fiction - General, Science Fiction - Space Opera, Science Fiction And Fantasy, SciFi-Futuristic Romance, space adventure, Scif-fi, sci fi, Adventure, Romance, Space Fleet, Science Fiction Romance, space fleets, sci-fi romance, Space colonization, SciFi, Space Exploration, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Spaceships, sci-fi, Science Fiction, Space Warfare, Space Ships, Science Fiction - High Tech, Space Opera, Science-Fiction, science fiction series
ISBN: 9780997392128
Goodreads: 51053683
Publisher: Hypernova Publishing
Published: 2016-06-28T07:00:00+00:00
25
ROMANE
* * *
The destroyed building remained too hot and unstable for close ground rescue and recovery by the units on the scene. Scaffolding teetered in the flames, threatening to crash down any second, and smaller explosions rippled through the interior as power control units and other volatile objects succumbed to the fire.
For now, chaos reignedâthe dazed, disorienting kind where no one understood quite what had happened.
But Caleb understood. He also knew it had changed everything, in ways he could only fear.
Valkyrie, where is she? Am I hunting for the ship, or her?
Silence answered him. The Artificial was rarely too busy to siphon off a few processes to respond to an inquiry, and he was forced to assume the silence was for some other reason.
He was so goddamn tired of it all.
He shouldnât have to beg to find out where Alex was. He shouldnât have to grovel to fucking matter. He shouldnât have to scrape and claw to maintain the flimsiest hold on his status as an insider, yet still feeling as if he were an outsider the whole time.
It wasnât supposed to have gone like this.
He almost turned around then and walked away. Heâd almost convinced himself he was turning away when he caught sight of long tangles of burgundy hair blowing in the cinder-filled breeze.
Alex kneeled amidst the chaos, too close to the wreckage yet seemingly oblivious to the smoke and sirens and smell of burnt metal and singed flesh.
He approached without attracting her attention and crouched beside her. Blood stained her hands, and despite his anger worry flared in his chest. But to his best ability to tell, it didnât appear to be hers. He was afraid to speculate where it had come from.
He waited.
When she finally spoke, her voice held the flat, detached tenor it had taken on so often of late. It sounded like it could be tinged in regret, but he didnât dare hope.
âI thought if I touched the wreckage with my own hands, if I felt the blood on my skinââ she stretched a hand out, as if she assumed he hadnât noticed the blood ââit might make it more real.â
âDid it?â
âNo.â She lifted her hand up closer to her face. âI look at this blood, and I see its chemical composition, its cells, its proteinsâhemoglobin, albumin, leukocytes, thrombocytes. Iâm not viewing it through the shipâs senses, yet Iâm still in that realm. It feels as though Iâm not actually here, and neither is anyone else.
âWeâre not real. Weâre not even the real humans, merely copies grown in a galactic petri dish. Weâre not special. Nothing but atoms, as insubstantial and ephemeral as the stellar wind.â
âYouâre wrong.â
Her hand fell to her side, and she half-turned her shoulders to look at him. Her eyes were at once vacant, distant and agonizingly desolate. âHave I fucked us up beyond all repair?â
She was asking him? Had this ever been up to him?
He swallowed heavily, tasted ash on his tongue. âI just want you. Alex, I love you so much sometimes I can hardly breathe from the power of it.
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