Paralysis Paradox (Time Travel Through Past Lives Adventure Series Book 1) by Sanders Stewart

Author:Sanders, Stewart [Sanders, Stewart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stewart Sanders
Published: 2015-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

Shattered Bones

I was observing the scene through a lens again. My other lives had a waking up process—those moments when you get to remember who you really are and what life you are in. But this was different. It felt more like a yank than an awakening. As I had neither eyes nor eyelids, it was not even possible to close my eyes and give myself a moment.

I did as I had learnt to do before and distanced myself from the carnage that I knew was below by blanking my mind. When I was close to it, I felt like I was part of it. I was expecting to hear that echoing voice any moment, commanding a ‘Reset’, so I could move into my next life, but it did not come. I remembered the mosque and carefully thought my intent: From afar, show me the mosque. I moved position only slightly. Now zoom in. It worked as my own visual field zoomed in. There was no doubting it any longer—I was a computer here, nothing more than a drone.

I was looking at a mosque without a dome, simply ruins, which was to be expected, as I had watched its dome explode just the day before. But I had hoped this life might not be real at all and might simply be a repeating scene. An actual nightmare, fuelled by all the death I’d witnessed in the last few days. It was clear now though, that this was an actual life.

I wondered why the dome had exploded and I started moving further away from the mosque below. The scene and the ground were shrinking at an increasing rate, as I started to spin around. A setting sun outlined the horizon, casting violet and amber shadows across distant cirrus clouds. All the time I could hear the infernal buzzing of motors around me as I proceeded ever upwards. The sky turned darker blue, and I spied some stars twinkling above the glowing horizon before I turned my view down.

Now I was falling at an accelerating rate. This was the first time I had been scared for myself in this life, and somehow the realisation intensified my fear. Slow down, slow down, I thought as intensely as I could, and sure enough, my fall began to slow as I approached and hovered over a beach. I could see an old shipwreck at the one end, and below me were hundreds of bones mixed with some washed-up seaweed. Waves crashed over them as I heard a high-pitched whine resonate and build within me. It was followed by an invisible explosion below.

A circular dust cloud expanded along the beach and over the sea. It dissipated much sooner over water, but I did notice that again the water seemed to steam and boil, just as it had when I watched the sideways tornado destroy all life in its path. The cloud cleared, and below me now was just white dust, and at the sea’s edge, a yellow-brown foam.

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