Prey - 01 by Steve Perry

Author:Steve Perry [Prey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-28T23:11:05+00:00

Chapter 17

The noise came from a million klicks to his right. It was a familiar sound, one he had known for a very long time, back on Earth, from before he knew what it meant.

He felt his consciousness as it rose upward, swam to the surface of a depthless abyss-the knowing part of him, the tomes of understanding. He fought to keep it from happening, but was helpless to stop it. There was something that he didn't want to know, was terrified of knowing . . .

The sound again. Scott? Scott, are you?

Scott?

Scott was him. The blissful nothing dwindled away as the aches in his body stepped in to greet him, coupled with a horrible, consuming hunger.

"Scott?"

Scott opened his swollen eyes to blackness and took a deep breath. He almost choked on the cloying, wet air.

"Scott, are you awake? Can you hear me?"

He coughed, the minor movement sparking a thousand pains. "Yeah." He swallowed gummy spittle and turned his head toward the voice. "Tom?"

"I think I can get my arm free," the other pilot said.

Scott couldn't see him, but his friend was only a few meters away from the sounds of hurried struggle.

The rest of the nightmare clicked in to place. "Where did they go?" Scott strained to see in the dark room, memories of hissing motion and giant teeth adding sharp panic to his dull and clouded mind. "Tom, did you see them? Where did they all go?"

"Shh! I'm almost out-" A grunt of exertion and Tom's welcome face appeared in front of him, grimy, fearful, pale.

"Hurry! Jesus, where did they go? Get me out of this, hurry, please!"

"Be quiet!" Tom spoke in a harsh whisper and reached for Scott's immobilized hands. The ropes of resinous dark material holding him in place snapped and crumbled to the floor.

Tom glanced over his shoulder every other second, eyes wide.

As soon as one of his arms was free, Scott tore at the weird matter at his midriff and leg-and tumbled to the floor.

He had been suspended a half meter in the air.

Tom slipped an arm around his waist and helped him up, speaking quickly and quietly.

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