Bionicum by Sean Collom

Author:Sean Collom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sean Collom
Published: 2017-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter.12://Servitude

The harsh crack of the whip made Siinak’s skin split, yet again, bringing back memories of her childhood and her mother. Her once pale blue skin had become gray; Dried and cracked from the harsh sun. Many times, over the last few weeks, she had seen these slavers carrying weapons and tools of her making. She had begun to realize that she had helped to perpetuate this kind of treatment. She felt weary from the immense hours of manual labor she was subjected to. Even more than that, though, she was weary from the weight of the guilt she felt after being on the other end of her own technology.

They’d been working on digging a foundation for the next building that would be built within the complex. She had never been able to see within the finished buildings, but she knew that Elle was there. During the time that they spent in the Void, Elle had become more than just some robot that she created. She became a friend. She was not going to just let her rot in this place.

There was also the boy, Oliver. Despite the hell he was put through on a regular basis, he was still able to make jokes and keep a positive attitude through everything. She was beginning to warm up to him in a way that she had never done in her life. Like Elle, he had become an individual that she would not allow to remain on the planet that, as she had learned from Oliver, was called Slavers’ Moon. Because of this, she could only think to refer to the creatures who had captured her as The Slavers. It was better than the name Oliver usually used, which only angered them. He had mentioned it to her in a conversation during one of their meal times.

“You know these guys remind me of some aliens from a really old Earth television show I saw when I was at the orphanage. They had some super vintage stuff in the basement,” he had told her.

“Television?” she replied.

“What, you don’t know what television is?”

“Not particularly.”

“Wow. Well, it’s this thing they used to do a lot on Earth. They would take scripted stories and broadcast them for people to watch on monitors that they had in their homes. Humans would gather to watch chapters, or episodes, at scheduled times every week.”

“So, propaganda pieces.”

To this, Oliver paused for a moment, looking at Siinak incredulously. “Who hurt you?”

When Siinak shot him a piercing glare, he continued, “Anyway, most of these stories went on for just a few years. This one ran for a little over two hundred years and was remade in multiple formats to keep up with whatever the current technology was at the time. Once humans spread out across other planets and stuff, they stopped doing the television thing, altogether. I got to watch this one, though, since it was in the archives at the orphanage. It was about a guy who traveled through space and time in a blue box.

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