Takar: Science Fiction Adventure Romance (Conquered World Book 11) by Elin Wyn

Author:Elin Wyn [Wyn, Elin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clockwalk Publishing
Published: 2019-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Daphne

“See?” I asked Takar with a smile. I was down on one knee, caressing a small vine as it wrapped itself around my wrist gently. It caressed me back, its tip softly brushing against the open palm of my hand. “It likes me.”

“You don’t know that for sure,” Takar said. “Maybe it’s just testing, seeing if you’re easily eaten.”

I stuck my tongue out at him, but despite his words, he seemed to be impressed with the dynamic I had established with the vines. I wasn’t sure if they actually felt about me in the way a human would like someone, but they seemed to have grown fond of me.

After all, the vines had protected me from Takar when they thought he was going to shoot me, and they always reacted positively whenever I reached out and touched them.

“Yes, I know for a fact that they like me,” I laughed, my eyes never leaving the small vine in front of me. As I got up, it slid back from my wrist, but it remained swaying back and forth, almost like a leaf being tossed by the wind. “I’m not entirely sure what the Puppet Master is, but you have to admit...it recognizes me. And I think I might have established a bond with it.”

“I still don’t understand why that would happen.”

“Me neither,” I admitted. “But it seems like the vines respond to more than just my voice...they respond to my touch, as well. In fact, that might be the best way to communicate with the Puppet Master. Maybe the vines have only attacked people in the cities because everyone reacts violently the moment they see them. People get scared, and that just makes them become defensive.”

It was still a working theory, but I had been gently stroking every vine I saw on our trek through the tunnels and I always managed to elicit a positive reaction. Even though I knew I had to be cautious, I was no longer afraid of the Puppet Master. I was merely intrigued by it.

“Do you really think it has a brain?” Takar asked me, still eyeing the vine in front of us with distrust. One sudden movement and I was pretty sure Takar wouldn’t hesitate before reaching for his blaster. He didn’t strike me as being the typical trigger-happy soldier, but something had shifted down here.

“Maybe a nerve center of some kind?”

“Hard to know,” I sighed, resting my hand on the wall for support. My body was growing heavy, and I was still feeling slightly dizzy. Even though I hadn’t broken anything when I fell through that hole, my body was complaining from the fall. “But I don’t think these vines can stand alone. Think of them as the arms and legs of the Puppet Master. They’re just an extension of what he is.”

“If that’s true, then he must be enormous,” he said. “The vines have been attacking—or, sorry, appearing—in different points of the region. From Nyheim to Fraga, we’ve spotted them pretty much everywhere.

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