Deception Station: Rise of the Anunnaki, Book 1 by C.A. Gray

Author:C.A. Gray [Gray, C.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wanderlust Publishing
Published: 2024-05-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20: Elle’s Arrival in Antarctica

Elle awoke with a jolt, completely disoriented to find herself aboard a mostly empty plane, her head resting at an uncomfortable angle against the ice-cold double paned window. Thousands of feet down below, there was nothing but water as far as her eye could see. From this distance it was hard to tell if the little white flecks were icebergs or just very low clouds, except that they didn’t coalesce like clouds typically do.

The Buenas Aires airport felt more like a dream than a memory. From there she’d flown to The Ushuaia Airport in Tierra del Fuego, and from there, she’d boarded the flight she was currently on, down to Marambio Station on the Antarctic Peninsula. She looked at her watch; they’d taken off at eight in the morning, and her watch read 11:15 Argentina time, so she still had about half the flight left. This was as good a time as any for her to review the medical records that had been shared with her for all of the team members she would soon meet down in Antarctica. She pulled out her laptop from her bag in front of her and powered it up. As she waited for it to boot, she looked around the plane, doing a quick head count. Fifteen, that she could see aboard the chartered flight. The vast majority of the seats were empty.

As Elle counted, the woman directly across from her stared back at her openly. She was very pale, with stick-straight dyed black hair and an eyebrow ring, dressed in all black, with a thick silver ring upon every finger. Her fashion choices might have suggested a teenager, but Elle put her at about thirty.

“Uhh, hi,” said Elle, disconcerted.

“Hi,” the woman said back, without smiling. Or blinking.

Elle licked her lips. “I’m Elle,” she said at last. “Elle Watson.”

“I know. You’re the doctor.”

Ooh-kay. “That’s… right. And, you are?”

“Ariel Hayes. Anthropologist specializing in ancient religions.”

Elle nodded once. She recalled Ariel’s name as one of the charts she’d received, but she was a little thrown off by why someone with her job description would be needed down in Antarctica. She figured Ariel would think the same, though, and tried to use that to diffuse the awkwardness.

“Kind of funny that they pulled an anthropologist down to a continent that’s never been inhabited, right? But, at least you get a vacation out of it… albeit a cold one.” Elle offered a friendly smile.

Rather than smiling or laughing back, Ariel narrowed her eyes, and seemed almost offended. “I’ve had a recurring dream for the past several months,” she announced. “I’m riding a unicorn through barren ice fields. Then the unicorn sprouts wings, and I soar, high up into the atmosphere, and from up there, I can look down and see that the ice is actually a crystal cathedral, scattering the sunlight into a thousand rainbows. Dreams are a window into our souls, you know, but also sometimes into our futures. I knew it symbolized

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