Allie's War, An Urban Fantasy: Episode 1 by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2014-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

6

TERIAN

The corpse of a man who died in his early twenties lay with artistic precision on a stainless steel table.

Clear tubes protruded from his throat, from veins in his arms, legs, his stomach. He was additionally fitted with several color-coded sets of electrodes that dotted patches of his bare skin, a computerized headband and the more conventional saline I.V. The organic-looking headband with its soft, skin-like texture blinked rhythmically, the only light not coming from one of the four monitors that dominated the walls of the bone-white room.

A technician adjusted settings on a rolling console beside the steel table, utilizing a standard interface and keyboard that projected data and findings to one of those thin screens that covered a portion of the organic-coated wall. Fluid coursing through the clear tubes disappeared into the same wall, changing color subtly soon after each adjustment the technician made. Temple electrodes on the corpse’s head flashed a dark blue once the fluid stabilized, signaling that another piece of the organic end of the transfer had been completed.

Fogged pupils stared blindly at the ceiling, irises and whites the same milky gray. As the tubes carried the genetic virus to their host, the eyes changed to an opaque yellow, the color of daffodils...or strong urine, the technician thought.

Over time, that yellow began to brighten.

The skin looked different as well, not flushing with life exactly, not yet, but somehow less...dead. That much took twelve hours.

It would have taken longer, but the body had been prepped well in advance.

Day one came and went. The technician’s boss came to the room, several hours past the first signs of change. An older woman, she checked the readouts on the monitor, made more and infinitely more subtle adjustments before nodding a stiff approval to the junior tech, who watched her every move in undisguised tension.

“Now,” the woman doctor said. She had the barest hint of a German accent. “Now, we wait.”

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