In Creation's Heart by Jason Hamilton

Author:Jason Hamilton [Hamilton, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Story Hobby Media
Published: 2019-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

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The insides were just as odd as the outside. Most of it was made of metal, including a grate of metal that she stood on. Giant cords that looked like rope, but were smooth and colorful covered the walls on all sides. Marek led her forward to the end of the ship, which she assumed was the front. The top portion was transparent like glass, though she had never seen glass curve like this before.

“This is where you control it,” he said, pointing down at a series of small levers and buttons. Jak had never seen so many levers before in her life, and built so tiny.

“Does any of this work?” she managed to ask, her mouth half open as she stared around the room.

“Much of it does,” said Marek. “He’s been slowly restoring it over the years, trying to get it to the point where it can travel the stars again. He’s almost got it.”

“He doesn’t want to stay?” she asked, slightly confused. He had once talked to her about visiting the stars, but she always had the impression that his main goal was to conquer Earth and rule over it like a god.

“Relics, no,” said Marek with a slight laugh. “He hates this place.”

“So why try to kill all of us.”

“Because you’re in his way. He needs tools and resources. The demons were his way of ‘hiring’ servants to aid his work. He cares nothing for the wellbeing of the distant sons and daughters of his brothers and sisters. All he cares about is leaving this planet.”

Jak took a deep breath. “That’s why he wants the Pillars so badly.”

“Indeed,” Marek gave her a knowing look.

“But if he has this starship, why does he need the Pillars.”

“Because after all he’s done, he’s never been able to get the ship working properly. Oh, it will fly, he tells me. But it won’t do much more than escape the Earth’s atmosphere.”

Jak frowned at the odd term. What did atmosphere have to do with trapping the ship so it had to escape?

“He thought simply waiting might help, that perhaps with time your people would develop technologies that he could use. So he slept for several millennia.”

Once again, Jak frowned. “How could he do that?”

“With these,” said Marek, tapping on some large cylindrical objects in the back of the room that Jak hadn’t noticed on their way in. “Cain calls these cryo tubes. They essentially freeze a person for hundreds of years, as long as they keep working. Then they unfreeze you and it’s like you never aged a day.”

“Incredible,” said Jak. What other secrets would they find here? Already she had seen so much that they could learn from. This was magic on an entirely different level, so much information that she could fill twenty journals, or a hundred. Perhaps when all of this was over, she could spend some time learning about all of it.

“I don’t understand it,” she said after pausing a moment to take it all in.

“It is a lot to comprehend,” Marek agreed.

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