The Curiosity Machine by Richard Newsome

Author:Richard Newsome
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2016-06-11T04:00:00+00:00

After that, everything got just a little bit confused. Gerald could remember the flash of light; it burned its image into the back of his eyeballs like the world’s largest Polaroid camera. And of course there was the bang. His head still rang to the after effects of that particular punch to the eardrums. The fuel dump had gone up like every New Year’s Eve fireworks display in history condensed into a single, spectacular event. The initial explosion sat Gerald down hard on his backside. After he regained some composure, he crawled across the floor to where Felicity and Sam had been thrown by the force of the blast. They were covered in shattered safety glass but did not seem to be hurt. Sam sat with his back to a wall, saying ‘Wow!’ over and over.

Ruby stumbled across to them and plopped down next to Gerald, the hair on one side of her face fanned out like a peacock’s tail, as if she had been told only half of a scary story. She grinned at Gerald. ‘That was awesome! Can we do it again?’

Gerald blinked to clear his vision and found Ursus had appeared by his side. Gerald went to get up but Ursus placed a hand on his shoulder and pressed him back to the floor. ‘Drink this,’ Ursus said to Gerald, handing him a cup. ‘It will settle your nerves.’ Gerald stared at the dark contents, not really sure if taking anything from Ursus was a good idea. He sniffed the liquid—it reminded him of burnt caramel—and he took a sip. He licked his lips. ‘Mmm,’ he said. ‘That’s good.’ Then he drained the cup.

Gerald tried to stand, but found that his legs were ignoring him. ‘Come on,’ he urged them. ‘We need to get moving.’

Strange, he thought. They’ve always listened to me before.

Then the notion of sleep seemed to be a tremendous idea. And his eyelids had no hesitation in agreeing to a general shutdown.

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