Awoken by Alex South

Author:Alex South [South, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher: Alex South
Published: 2014-08-28T21:00:00+00:00

Episode 07 - Reflections of the Past

The ARI tore through the air, racing headlong into the dim shadows that surrounded Istaar. An oppressive fog swelled out to engulf them, growing heavier as the ship waded further into the frigid embrace. Oa and Kai stared out of the cockpit window to see that the golden glow of the sky had receded. The rivers of light evaded the desolate region, forsaking Istaar to its despair. A pall of gloom stretched from the barren rock below to the darkened clouds above, swallowing the city in eternal darkness and obscuring it from any passerby's.

Oa had dimmed the lighting in the cockpit to enjoy the sky; but as they entered the outskirts of the city, he reconsidered the decision. He reached up and twisted a glowing orange knob on a panel above his head. The cockpit brightened considerably. The added light was a small comfort to the crew in the growing dusk. Next to Oa, Kai steadily guided the ARI’s flight toward her lost home.

“Are you sure we are heading the right way?” Kai asked for the fourth time since they left the lightning forest.

“We are still heading in the correct direction,” Fred informed her. Oa had been watching Kai periodically throughout the flight. They had been traveling for most of a cycle. She had relaxed at first, but then her nervous leg twitch started again once they passed into the shadow of the darkened sky.

Oa sensed that her repeated question contained a hidden plea to alter their course and go somewhere else; somewhere that would not force her to accept the events long absent from her mind. Perhaps she just refuses to remember, Oa thought to himself. He spun his chair around to see what Susan was doing. Behind the two pilot seats, Susan napped inside her storm simulator, the soft crackles of energy providing a constant ambient noise that grew comforting in the stillness.

“Oa, activate the flood lamp,” Ohm commanded calmly, breaking through the young Awoken’s silent ruminations. Oa turned back around and began to scan over the numerous controls in front of him. Kai glanced over and pointed at a switch that sat next to a raised circular glowing panel.

“That switch there turns the lamp on. Use the sensor pad next to it to point the beam,” Kai instructed curtly. She returned her attention to piloting the ship. Oa sensed a slight strain in Kai’s voice. She wasn’t her normal cheery self.

Oa flipped the switch on and a bright yellow dot appeared on the glowing white panel next to the switch. Outside the ARI, the flood lamp activated. The iris in the lamp opened releasing the concentrated power of the photorb within. The beam cut through the fog in front of the vessel. Oa placed his finger onto the control pad, and the yellow dot tracked his movements as he traced a path across the pad. The flood lamp obeyed his guiding motions, scanning the space in front of the ARI. The

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