Jack James and the Call of the Tanakee by J. Joseph Wright

Author:J. Joseph Wright [Wright, J. Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: JK Wright Publications
Published: 2013-08-12T07:00:00+00:00

SIXTEEN

JACK SPENT THE NEXT three hours by himself, wandering. A state of profound shock set in as he tried to accept, or somehow come to grips with, all that had just happened to him. Argus? The True Soul? It just couldn’t be. And Takota. How could he lose Takota?

He roamed the myriad passageways and chambers of the underground complex known as the Black Pyramid. A mammoth place. One of the guards told him the structure was almost twice the size of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and probably much older, though nobody could say for certain who built it and why. A network of elevators traveled up and down ninety-nine levels, terminating in a hot and steamy, dark and dingy place. They told Jack it was the reactor, and said the entire complex got its power from what was a new form of clean fusion. Jack only knew it was cooking him like an oven, so he didn’t spend much time there. He also didn’t spend much time in the mothballed areas which made up most of the pyramid, vast spaces that hadn’t been used in centuries.

Everything was larger than life, and, though ancient, looked more modern than anything he’d ever seen, with architecture way beyond its time in accuracy and engineering. Precise, seamless fusions of some kind of unknown metal alloy, rounded off and no hard angle in sight. And the scale. Every room he went into was gigantic. Every floor bigger than the last. He found the dining hall, known as the Commons, and it looked like it could hold two thousand easy. Same with a room they called the Connections Center. And another place called the Discovery Room. Lastly, he came to an area that the guards told him were the dorms. Jack’s lungs emptied involuntarily as he walked in and saw rows and rows of bunks, hundreds of them, lining the room. A grand hall, really, extending the length of a football field.

He saw Amelia lying on one of the beds and sat next to her.

“Are we expecting someone?” he half-joked about the seemingly endless cots, though his nerves wouldn’t die down.

Amelia laughed halfheartedly.

“You might say that,” she sat up somberly. “Listen, Jack. I know it’s not helping right now, but I truly am sorry about this.”

“How could this happen, Amelia? How could you not see this coming?”

She looked past him, or through him, to somewhere else. Perhaps a place that didn’t really exist but in her imagination.

“Amelia,” he shook her from her waking dream. “You okay? You’re starting to act like I do sometimes.”

“Oh,” she shook her head. “Sorry. I was…Jack, there’s something I want to tell you. It’s about my abilities. Things have been happening. Strange things. I think I’m being manipulated.”

“Manipulated? How? By who?”

“I’m not sure, but my Eteea powers have been used by someone, or something. They’ve been invading my mind, coming to me in my dreams and scaring me. But I think they’re doing more than that. I think they’re using me to find you.

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