Escape From B Movie Hell by M T McGuire

Author:M T McGuire
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: british comedy story, epic woman hero, psychic female, world satire, fast-paced sci fi, a adventure series, first contact space opera, telepathic, alien hero, psychic alien, teenager teenage fantasy character funny girl scifi species british comedy story epic woman hero ali
Publisher: M T McGuire
Published: 2015-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Reunited with friends

Muzzy headed and confused I struggled to the surface of consciousness and looked into seven blue eyes on stalks.

I sat up.

“Eric!” I hugged him. “How are you feeling?”

“Better than you I suspect.”

“It’s OK. I’m a bit stiff and achy, and weary as if I am a thousand years old. And after hugging you without thinking I’m also covered in your yucky life matter, but otherwise, I’m fine.”

“Yeh right.” He transmitted a smile.

“What about you, how’s your thorax?”

“They’ve fixed me up pretty well.”

There was a high stool beside my bed and Eric sat down.

“The doctor, Apreetik his name is, he told me you were lucky,” I said.

“More likely he’s a really good doctor.”

“Yeh,” I thought of Doge Sneeb’s sneering words, that Apreetik would treat anything and it occurred to me, for the first time, that in ministering to me he might have gone against orders. “He seems a really good bloke, all round.”

My knee was still sore and so was Eric’s thorax. We compared and shared the pain, using our minds, in companionable silence.

What happened there?

He waved a pincer at my knee. I described my efforts to escape and my eventual capture and shooting.

Doge Sneeb shot you?

Yeh.

Plort, that’s awful.

I shrugged.

To give him his due, Eric, I shot him first.

“When I came round, they wouldn’t let me see you. Apreetik said you were with Doge Sneeb,” he said, out loud.

“Yeh.”

“How did it go?”

Where to start?

“I learned some stuff.” It seemed that every time anyone tried to tamper with my brain I absorbed some of their training. Doge Sneeb and Borridge had trained extensively.

“Come on then, dish it.”

“I can’t put my finger on what it is, but let’s just say that, while being telepathic has felt like carrying a large bomb around with no idea how to defuse it or what might set it off, now I feel a bit more ...” hmm, confident was exaggerating, and to say that I was anywhere close to actually being in control was far too optimistic, “better equipped?”

“You feel a bit more better equipped! It hasn’t improved your grammar then.”

“Plonker! I just mean I feel more comfortable with being able to read thoughts.”

A bit more comfortable, but if I ever made it home, knowing what everyone around me was thinking would be quite interesting and probably not in a good way. Not that it looked as if I ever would get home.

“Good.”

“Yeh. Eric I—hang on,” I used thoughts because I got the impression that they would be more difficult to monitor. There’s another sage advisor on this ship.

You think?

Yes. Doge Sneeb made Borridge try to fuse his mind with mine. I was winning but then someone helped him, someone stronger. That’s what happened with Mingold too. He was beaten and I couldn’t disconnect so someone else overpowered both of us and did it. That’s why I got stuck on the Thesarus, when I was trapped in that scary mind, I still couldn’t disconnect, because I never learned how: same with the second time on here.

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