CROSSRevenge by Hildred M. Billings

Author:Hildred M. Billings [Billings, Hildred M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barachou Press
Published: 2022-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

Danielle barely understood what the hell was going on. She barely knew where she was, let alone the amount of security bursting at the seams wherever they went.

Commander d’Alacron insisted on personally escorting the party of VVIPs across the known universe to Yahzen, the hub of all julah and their culture. Yet when Marlow put his foot down and reiterated for the millionth time that they would be transporting via julah magic—because they simply did not have time for a three-day trip via space cruiser—the commander finally relented and instead arranged for a Federation guard to meet them on Yahzen.

But they didn’t go to Yahzen. They went to Sah Zenlit, the second of two moons orbiting a large purple and red planet hanging in the sky. Danielle yelped when she stepped out of a small building erected specifically for those traveling via transportation, as the julah often preferred, and saw an ominous astral body looming in the blue sky.

“Holy shit.” Devon crashed into her. “I’ve gotta write a song about this.”

Lanelle procured a cart for them to drive across the Academy grounds. Marlow’s status as a revered alumnus allowed him almost unfettered access to any part of the expansive property that housed the oldest university in the cosmos. He barely had time to gesture to points of interest as Lanelle weaved through one-lane roads, bypassing guardhouses with a wave of her hand and almost hitting one tall and gangly student crouched in the middle of the road. Young Master Belan claimed to be conducting an experiment on the collective spiritual energy of the pebbles in a squared off area that happened to overlap one of the grounds’ many dirt roads.

“Ha!” Marlow exclaimed after they said their farewells to the young man, now in a state of disbelief after encountering one of his heroes. “I see Master Narath is still making the whelps do everything from literally the ground up. I did the same experiment about three meters from that exact spot my first year here!”

The Earthlings sitting in the back seat could only stare at him as if he spoke a different alien language from the usual Julah or Basic. Their brains were too fried from the constant traveling around a universe they didn’t know existed until a few months ago. Even Devon, who had regained his memories of a life where all of this was normal, could barely handle the level of fatigue pressing upon him.

It didn’t get better when they were ushered into the antechamber of a man who Marlow heralded as “the greatest authority on spiritual magic.” Indeed, Master Obello was afforded one of the premier apartments at the Academy, commanding the whole first floor of a wing at the end of a long, dark gray building with white window trims and latticed windows. Purple and orange flowers bloomed beneath the windowsills. While they waited outside for a tall and slender woman to let them in, a bucket of water picked itself up and dumped nourishment into the flowers’ roots.

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