Myracles in the Void by Wes Dyson

Author:Wes Dyson [Dyson, Wes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781737910510
Publisher: WONDERLOVE

Chapter 19

A Very Thin Brush

All Kabbage and Gai could feel was the sense of falling into some dark space below. But they had no idea how far or what awaited them at the bottom. Each was screaming at the top of their lungs. Following them down was a companion stream of freezing seawater. All at once, a rush of cold struck them as they splashed into a pool of water, diving deep underneath.

Everything was so dark that the boy didn’t even know which way to swim to the surface and breathe, for Zeea’s sake. He flailed his arms, reaching out to see if he could feel Kabbage swimming nearby. But there was only more frigid water flowing past his fingers. Frantic as he was, he would soon die if he didn’t figure out where to swim. Gai calmed himself by listening to where the rushing water was loudest. He followed it and broke the surface, gasping.

“Kabbage!” He struggled to scream while trying to catch a breath. “Kabbage!” There was such a powerful stream of water dumping in that even if the gnome were above water, Gai would never hear him. A faint flicker of light struck the boy’s eye from a ways away. It was electri gold in color. It was the gnome’s com-comm. “Kabbage!” Gai paddled himself as quickly as he could to the tiny beacon. When he got closer, he could hear his friend panting and splashing. “Hold on!” The boy scooped him up over his shoulder so Kabbage could ride him like an Emilie. “All’s a’kay.”

Kabbage spat out a throat full of seawater. “W-where are we? I’m blind! Where am I?”

“Yer not blind,” said Gai. “Just super dark in here.”

They heard a woman shout a ways away. After a few scattered splashes, she yelled, “Get that light over here, will ya?”

“That’s that captain!” Kabbage garbled in between spitting out seawater. “I don’t like her.”

Hungry pirates-thieves, they may have been. But Gai one-arm paddled in the direction of her voice, hoping she had found land or at least something that floated. Survival was top priority. They could yell at her for causing all this later.

“That’s it, this way,” Ballette said in the black, black air. “Follow my musical voice.”

As Kabbage and Gai got closer, they started to see the captain in Kabbage’s com-comm light. She was in Mac’s arms, who was standing firmly on some actual ground. “Alright,” she said, sliding off him to her own feet. “Now pick these two out. That’s an order.”

Mac bent down and pulled Gai out of the water by his arm, with Kabbage dangling off the boy’s neck, saying, “I miss Emilie.” Then the barely visible, dark-armored man dropped them both on some dark, slippery rocks.

“What the hell is this place?” said Ballette.

“The water’s still pouring in,” Mac mumbled. “We have to find higher ground, quickly.”

“Pouring in from where?” she asked.

“I’ll explain later,” he said, splashing the rising water with a stomp. “Move!”

“Wait,” Ballette yelled. “Shine that light up again.”

Kabbage did as she demanded.

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