Magenta by Fahy Warren

Author:Fahy, Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Primordial Soup Books
Published: 2021-06-13T00:00:00+00:00

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“Noah Rake?” Cody guessed.

She nodded.

Cody shook his head and sighed. “I thought so.” Cody padded his fingers on the white arm of the couch. “I knew it was something I couldn’t tell anyone.”

“As usual,” she smiled. “Everyone would think you’re crazy, anyway.”

“You mean I’m not?”

They laughed together in the safe house Saphire had built five years ago without telling her husband. “Cody, don’t worry. We’re going to do everything according to our plan.”

“But he’s out there,” Cody said. “He’s got the whole world on his side. And you have to hide in this place. What can you do?”

“Much more than you know. But I’ll need your help.”

Cody looked out the window at the mountainside. He looked back at her. “I’ll kill him, if you want me to.”

“No, Cody. Not that way. Did you bring what I asked?”

Cody unzipped the top of his backpack and poured its contents onto the onyx table between them.

“Good.”

Of all the geometrically simple objects that spilled onto the table, Saphire chose a gold sphere that appeared clear at certain angles as it rolled. She rose from her chair with the object in hand. “Come on.”

Cody followed her down a set of spiral stairs at the far corner of the room.

At the bottom of the stairs was a wide room glowing in a twilight of floating monitors.

Saphire led him to a cluster of screens, and they sat on chairs which seemed to spring on cushions of air.

“You’re from the future. You must be. You’re not... alien, are you, Boss?”

“No, Cody. Of course not!”

He nodded but didn’t seem reassured.

“These aren’t alien things.” She lifted the golden sphere. “They’re probably more human than anything else in the universe.”

“Are you from the future, then?” He looked afraid for the first time Saphire could remember.

She kissed his brow. “No one can go back in time, Cody. We can only go forward.”

Her hand rose beneath a floating television screen, and the gold orb seemed to disappear as an image in three dimensions appeared on the screen: it was a gray, stone room with a slab in the center and a carving on the wall. It seemed to be some kind of tomb.

“You’re sure he got the last message?” she asked.

“Yes. He read it.” Cody shrugged. “I watched him.”

Saphire nodded. “Very good.” She motioned with a hand before the screen and the view shifted. “Rory,” she whispered.

The screen suddenly showed another room, a plain, ordinary room with a bed by the window in which a distant CSB Tower scrolled words. She motioned again and the view rotated, showing an aquarium on a bookshelf. “I can see, again.” She smiled. “Thank you, Cody.”

“Why did you give it to him?” Cody asked. “A teenager. And he’s a juvenile delinquent. He breaks the law, smokes dope, he’s a rebel at school, his shades are bad, he doesn’t respect his teachers, the RakeLink even says he may have some environmental toxic syndrome, AYDS, RELNS, whatever the hell that is, a bunch of learning disabilities, and he’s on psychiatric medications.

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