Novum Chronicles: A Dystopian Undersea Saga by Joseph Rhea Rhea

Author:Joseph Rhea Rhea [Rhea, Joseph Rhea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-30T22:00:00+00:00

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“Breathe!” someone yelled. Jake gasped and opened his eyes and saw that it was Jane, not Stacy, staring down at him. “Breathe!” she yelled again.

“Stop yelling!” he tried to say, but the words stung his throat. His lungs burned like fire, and his chest felt as though someone was sitting on him. Then he realized that he was breathing. He was breathing air. He was alive.

“How long?” he tried to ask, his voice dry and crackly.

“How long have you been here?” Jane asked, wiping sweat from his forehead. “You’ve been asleep on this cot since we found you this morning. I came in to check on you and saw that you weren’t breathing.”

“Asleep?” he repeated. The word didn’t make sense. He was on the shuttle, suffocating, and then the Scimitar rescued him. He felt himself drifting off, going back, but then Jane looked up and smiled. “There’s someone here to see you,” she said, waking him up again.

“The crew?” he asked, suddenly more alert. Every breath seemed to come a bit easier.

“No,” she said. “It’s not the crew.”

Panic hit him. “Are they...”

“No, Jake,” she assured him. “They’re not dead. You saved them. You saved us all.”

“Then who?”

Jane moved out of his field of vision. He tried to move his head, but then another face replaced hers. It was a face he didn’t recognize at first, an older woman with soft wrinkles around her gray eyes and nearly white hair pulled up in a loose bun. She reminded him of pictures of his grandmother. As she looked down on him, tears began to well up in her kind-looking eyes.

“Oh, my little Jacob,” she said. “I have missed you so much.”

Recognition hit like an electric shock. “Mom?”

“Yes, it’s me, Son.”

His head began to spin. “How are you here? Am I dead?”

She smiled. “You’re not dead, and neither am I.”

He looked around and saw other people in the room. When his eyes could focus, he saw crew standing in a circle around him.

“Welcome back, Sir,” AJ said.

The room began to spin again, and this time he didn’t fight it. His last thought was a clear image of his mother on the last day he saw her alive. She kissed him on the forehead and said, “I’ll see you soon.”

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