Revenants Rising by Megg Jensen

Author:Megg Jensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 80 Pages, Inc

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Torsten sank to the floor of the orb as it stabilized. Space. Surrounded by a vast blackness, faraway stars, and the faint light of two moons peeking out from the opposite side of Phoenix, more than anything Torsten was relieved he was still alive.

The tark didn't seem to care their ship was old and untested. Panic belonged only to the humans. The living ones. Those above blinked and moved, but Torsten knew it was only thanks to the tark holding their hands. He didn't want to think about the dead, but he couldn't stop. How many faces would he recognize? Would he feel the pain of their deaths all over again? He'd barely had time to mourn his friends, and now he'd joined their murderers on a quest to save the woman he loved.

"Torsten?" Malia rested a hand on his shoulder.

He slowly lowered his head, meeting her gaze. "Yeah?"

"What do we do next?" Rutger asked.

Leila stood next to them, her eyes expectant.

Torsten stared back, at a loss for words. It was a valid question. One he couldn't answer.

Denestra pushed aside a few bodies to float beside Torsten. "The answer is obvious. Next, we find Rell.”

"Where?" Leila asked. "We've come all the way up here. We're the only ship I can see. Do you want me to ask a space rock? How about one of the moons?"

"Insolent human. We ask them." Denestra pointed outside the ship.

Torsten squinted, trying to see something, anything. "Who?"

"Them!" Denestra yelled. "Don't you see it?"

Torsten held back the urge to scream. "I don't see anything." He turned to his friends. "Do you?"

Everyone shook their heads, just as confused as he was.

A body floated down next to them, a tark clutching her hand, dressed in clothes Torsten recognized, though they were torn in many places. It was Archer. The woman who had asked him to give her a chance when he came back from helping Rell. She'd felt something for him, and maybe he had liked her, too.

An arm lifted, and a finger pointed. "If you look closely, you will see space is distorted in that direction. Hiding there is a dragzhi ship. It has folded space and hidden within it," Archer’s dead body said, her lips slack.

Torsten followed the tip of her finger, finally seeing the strange distortion.

He turned back to Denestra, trying to ignore the dead woman who'd spoken. That's all she was now. A body. The Archer he'd known was gone.

"Do you know how to contact them?" Torsten asked.

"Yes, we have communication systems." Denestra waved its arm in an arc. "Can't you see the gloriousness of our ship?"

Torsten looked at the ship again. He could only see the clear orb filled with bodies. No wires. No electronics. He had no idea how the ship propelled itself, nor how the tark controlled it.

"Stupid humans. Your technology is so basic, you could never understand ours." Denestra's eyes glowed red. "Yes, we can communicate with the dragzhi. We could blow up their ship if we chose. But today, we will not.

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