Bridgeworlds: Deep Flux by Randy Blackwell

Author:Randy Blackwell [Blackwell, Randy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lamplight Media
Published: 2013-07-23T07:00:00+00:00

7

Back to the Maze

Omar woke on the floor of his room covered in dried sweat. What came over me?

Sometime in the night he had clenched his fists so tight that his fingers dug into his palms. I am not this person. He got up, a bit dizzy and walked to his shower turning it on. Hot water poured over him as steam rose through the bathroom. He finished washing up and then went to his desk to look for ideas of where he would go. There he found a note attached to some kind of child’s bracelet. The bracelet was covered in wires and circuits but it was so small that would fit only a child.

Omar opened the letter and read it. “Myles?” he said softly as he read. He laughed, “Of course you are alive, you dirty old cheat. You would cheat even death his wages wouldn’t you?” Omar shook his head as he read on, and picked up the small device. Then Omar’s mind went into overdrive. This was what he needed, a project that he could pour himself into.

He rushed to an emergency solar powered intercom that he had built over the years. He pressed the button, “Peeloff, get up here and bring your technical gear.”

Within 30 minutes Peeloff rolled in from the elevator riding a remote control car that pulled a trailer behind it. He had excelled in learning technology. The remote control car was something Omar had brought from earth, but Peeloff had modified it to fit his purposes.

Omar handed the bracelet to him. "Figure out how it works and then make it so it still works and fits on my wrist." Peeloff only nodded as he got to work right away. It’s time to go back to Earth. With this I can get whatever kind of project funding I want and restock on materials. Omar really didn’t even need to test it as he had seen Myles teleporting in the battle. But how did he survive that sword wound?

The Magi had found that the smaller races were great for working on technology because of their little hands. In no time, Peeloff had extended the clasp of the bracelet so that it would fit around Omar’s arm. “A bit of a warning before you…”

Before Peeloff could continue, Omar snapped it on and two needles shot out from the bracelet, puncturing his arm. At first he tried to rip them off but that was more painful than leaving them in. A moment later Omar fell to the ground and started seizing.

Peeloff approached him making sure he was ok but did not intervene. Instead, he let him ride it out. When Omar was done seizing, he felt an awareness that he hadn’t had before. He could actually calculate the distance from himself to the wall in exact mathematical measurements. “It must be embedded into the neurological system of the host,” said Omar with a look of fascination.

Peeloff nodded, “That would explain the seizure.” Omar sighed, “Hopefully I have no brain damage from that, but from what I can tell it only helped me have a better awareness.

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