Neverwylde (The Rim of the World Book 3) by Linda Mooney

Author:Linda Mooney [Mooney, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: outer space, space ships, science fiction, sensuous, adventure, aliens, action, sci-fi, space opera, other worlds
Publisher: Music And Press
Published: 2016-03-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Mold

The sound of several people rushing into the apartment roused Kyber from his prayers. Slowly, he raised his head to see Jules, Cooter, and Gaveer standing near the doorway. Fullgrath hovered behind them. They had noticed him in the bed pit with Kelen.

“How’s she doing?” Jules walked over to the lip of the depression and crouched down. He reached over and touched her shoulder with his fingertips. “She looks worse than when we left.”

“I haven’t been able to pinpoint a chemical code yet for this venom,” the doctor admitted with obvious frustration. “It doesn’t make any sense. My readouts say it’s not all organic.”

“Not organic? What are you saying? That those clickers are machinery?” Cooter countered.

“They’re not machinery, but they’re not all organic, either. Hell if I can figure it out. I’m stumped. I just hope Dox and the others manage to bring back enough equipment to help me break this thing wide open before…” Clearing his throat, Sandow tried to bring everyone’s attention back to the reason why they were there. “Tell us what you discovered.”

Jules pulled the tablet from under his arm and aimed it at the far wall. Someone lowered the lights to enable them to see the picture being projected.

“Okay. This isn’t the usual 3D we’re used to working with, so bear with me.”

Kyber recognized the large, lighted stone map from the machinery room.

“All right. As I mentioned before, we’re familiar with three of the locations on this chart. This orange light is the machinery room. This white one is the temple, and this green one is the garden.” The individual lights blinked as he pointed them out. “We discussed which of these other light locations to investigate first, and we chose this one for two reasons. It’s closest to where we are now, and it’s also green.”

A light above and to the left of the light pinpointing the machinery room blinked.

“What did you find?” Kyber asked, intrigued.

“Another garden,” Cooter answered. “And, hold onto your butts, the vegetation there is different.”

“Different how?” Sandow asked.

“We brought some back with us.” Jules waved an arm at Gaveer. The Seneecian removed his food pouch and opened the top.

Sandow threw up a hand. “Wait! Wait! Please tell me you didn’t handle any of the vegetation with your bare hands.”

“No,” Gaveer assured him. Walking over to the doctor, he bent over and emptied the contents on the floor: a white cylinder-shaped object, a flat green something, and a purplish blob that quivered and rolled slightly.

Sandow poked the white object with the tip of his knife. “What kind of vegetation?”

“This kind.”

The panel of lights was replaced with a vista of green vines and low-lying bushes. It was immediately clear this was another garden, and that the greenery was vastly different from the forest-like appearance of the one connected to the temple.

“You’re sure it’s a garden?” Sandow questioned.

“Yeah. It definitely has the earmarks of another one of those well-maintained, cultivated beds gone amok like the one up top has. The place is filled with fresh produce, as well as rotting.

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