Flux by Jeremy Robinson

Author:Jeremy Robinson [Robinson, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Breakneck Media
Published: 2019-05-22T22:00:00+00:00

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I don’t remember feeling gravity’s return or hitting the floor. I barely remember colliding with the ceiling, but I don’t think that’s what knocked me unconscious. My head hurts, but not concussion bad, which is good. I’m not sure how many whacks to the head I can handle in one day without becoming a useless lump.

I’m lying on my side, head on my arm. Sore, but alive.

I open my eyes and find Cassie lying beside me, eyes closed. For a moment, I imagine this is a lazy Saturday morning. That we’re waking up together. That we’re more than friends, and I think we are now. Maybe. The moment is broken when groans from the hallway beyond the closed door reach my ears.

I stretch out and place my fingers against the side of her neck. I don’t immediately find her pulse, but I don’t need to. My touch makes her eyes flutter and open.

“Okay?” I ask.

She grunts, pushing herself up. “Think so.”

“How in the name of Captain Crunch’s testes did I wind up on the floor?” Kuzneski asks. His back is on the floor, but his legs jut straight up against the bed. He leans to the side and flops over. “Wait, now I remember. I was fucking flying. Again.”

“Again?” Flores says, sitting up on the top bunk opposite Langdon, who is exactly where I last saw him, still clinging to the bed.

When Kuzneski sees Flores has been spared the pain of being dropped down onto the hard floor, he says, “Seriously? How lucky is this asshole?”

Not very, I think, but I keep the observation to myself. If his story is true, he came to Synergy to stop Langdon from unleashing hell on Earth. Instead, he got swept up in it, and lost all his friends—including future me and Cassie—in the process.

“The effect was far more powerful this time,” Langdon says. “Before, it lifted us a few feet off the ground, but nothing like this. If not for the ceiling…” He looks up, no doubt imagining the sky above.

“Will it be like that for everyone?” I ask, concerned for Inola, not to mention the layers of people in Black Creek.

Langdon shakes his head. “We’re at the epicenter. Whatever is happening in the collider, it’s directly below Synergy. Here, we experience it as an eruption of space-time. On the mountainside, it would be more like a pyroclastic flow of bending space-time as it races outward.”

“Sounds about right,” Cassie says.

“But I can’t imagine what we just felt would react gently with the world beyond Synergy.” Langdon says.

“Any ideas why that one was more intense?” Flores asks.

Langdon pales a bit. “A more powerful flux.”

Kuzneski pushes himself up. “Meaning?”

“A larger flux.”

I look to the walls, expecting to see windows, but find none. I don’t remember any in the outer hall, either. Whenever we are, it’s beyond the dawn of civilization in the Americas. At this point, I’m not sure it matters how far back we go. It’s possible there are still Cherokee tribes about, but

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