Perry Rhodan NEO: Volume 4 [Complete] by Arndt Ellmer Hubert Haensel

Perry Rhodan NEO: Volume 4 [Complete] by Arndt Ellmer Hubert Haensel

Author:Arndt Ellmer, Hubert Haensel
Language: eng
Format: epub


2.

July 14, 2036,

In the morning

Something was different.

Opening his eyes would have been the biggest mistake he could have made. Because he would have found himself in a cold and hostile world.

Reginald Bull turned onto his side and placed an arm beneath his pillow. He smiled, but did not realize that he was doing it. He was also unaware of the Black man who emerged slowly before him, looked at him thoughtfully, and then disappeared again in the same way he had come.

Bull wanted to find out what he had lost while he was waking up:

The gentle sound of the waves breaking on the beach, which was a lot more attractive than the demoralizing barrage of the Chinese artillery in the Gobi.

The salty breeze of the Pacific, and the sweet smell of the lush blossoms—both very different to the acrid stink of the poured-out gasoline and burning tires only two days ago in Western Australia.

The silky hula tones. The young Hawaiian women. All in all, there were enough good reasons to cling to the night.

But he was unable to find his way back into his dreams. Of all things, it was the silence that disturbed him.

He suddenly sat up straight. “Perry?”

Nobody answered. The room he had spent the night in was not very big, but it was still a ballroom compared to the constricted space in the Stardust. Pale light shone weakly through the heavy curtains.

He jumped out of bed and had a little trouble finding his bearings, because he had been dog-tired when they had...arrived? Appeared...at the apartment? When they were suddenly there. During the flight from Australia, he had managed one or two hours of shuteye at most.

He pulled open the curtains—old-fashioned, heavy brocade. His eyes scanned the sea of houses lying half asleep in the dawn light. Arlington County on the Potomac River, right across from Washington D.C., which was the reason there was already so much traffic on the roads.

The sun was just coming up over the horizon, its rays reaching out like fingers into the sky. Bull guessed it was going to be a beautiful day. At least as far as the weather was concerned. He couldn’t say anything about how everything else might turn out.

He massaged his temples with both hands. “Crazy. It feels worse than a bad hangover. But when was the last time I had one of those?”

To wake up and not know where he was was not a good feeling. It gave him a sense of helplessness, made him feel he wasn’t fully in control of his situation.

“I could at least ask the women who picked me up in the old days for an address. In the old days...”

He laughed quietly to himself, despite the fact that it was a pretty lame joke, he had to admit. And the black and red tartan bedding was even more of a lame joke. It wasn’t only from the last century, it came from the last millenium.

He remembered Adams. Homer Gershwin Adams. Or that was what was printed on the just as old-fashioned business cards the man so generously handed out.



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