Odyssey by Rusty Williamson

Author:Rusty Williamson [Williamson, Rusty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Virtualmedia Studios
Published: 2018-12-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine - Stowaways

“Because we have memories, we imagine a past. Because we recognize patterns and can predict reoccurrences, we imagine a future. Without these qualities, there would be only now.”

Dimerities (ancient Amular philosopher 924-1008)

Source: The Archive

At 91,231 ship-years the bees had changed quite a bit. They were now ten-inches long with overly large heads and long hind legs.

It was Autumn, and golden leaves blew along the ground. A brilliantly clear day, smoke could be seen rising from Mount Burnwall in the distance.

The God door stood there as it always had, mute, inactive and ungiving. Even though it was officially forbidden, over the centuries many bees had pressed the ten square buttons that lit up magically next to the God Door.

Eventually, it had to happen.

It was a bee with the dance-name of d-glo that by chance entered the correct code and opened the door.

Astounded, she darted away and hid in a bush 20-feet away ready to get much farther if she saw anything scary.

But nothing happened. She waited… nothing.

She darted away and angled into a small plant that gave her a view of the inside of the door. A strange area… flat in some way.

Finally, she flew back to the door where she saw her partner d-nee. d-glo touched the colored squares in the same way again and… the door closed. She looked at her partner then touched it yet again opening the door back up.

d-glo and her partner d-nee cautiously entered.

In their wondering, they stumbled upon the hibernation pod chamber. To them it looked like a giant flower. An uncountable number of pedals (pods) rose up from the bottom sides and top. And each pedal had small lights on it.

d-glo saw the lights on one pod change and flew up and peaked in the window. d-nee followed her. There was a strange creature in the pod. The strange creature opened its eyes, looked at them and screamed.

d-glo and d-nee raced back to the Atrium.

d-glo touched the colored shapes in the same way she had before, and the door closed.

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Adamarus reluctantly got into his hiber-pod and slept…

Adamarus saw the blue pixilated galaxy at the edge of the visible universe alive with vast spiraling arms of brilliant white stars shimmering like jewels.

Then he saw two plasma jets burst from the center of the spiral galaxy, one going upward and one down. A strange wisp of plasma erupted from the upper plasma jet. He saw a black sphere emerge from the small plasma off-shoot.

The black sphere headed for another distant group of galaxies.

He watched in silent horror as the sphere went from one cluster of galaxies to another, leaving its ugly black stain spreading upon each one.

Looking around, Adamarus could now see other spheres…first thousands, then millions… then they seemed endless.

An enormous gas giant swam into view. There was a large swirling red spot within the banded pastel clouds, and Adamarus realized that a person stood in at the center of it. He floated down and stood there beside the person. He looked down, below his boots the red storm swirled.

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