The Flight of the Darkstar Dragon by Benedict Patrick

Author:Benedict Patrick [Patrick, Benedict]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

Fifth year of solitude, day two hundred and seven

I met myself today.

Except this time, I was a woman.

She arrived not long after I had awoken, beaching a small rowboat on the shore of the island Stickle had been clinging to.

Travellers to the Darkstar Dimension are not uncommon; the rifts continue to pull in people from other worlds, just like I was brought here originally. The manner in which I’ve encountered these newcomers tends to vary. Most of them are in pretty bad shape mentally; getting pulled through a rift is painful, and the initial experience seems to mess with people’s memories, so by the time they come across me, they tend to be in a bad way. I’ve learned to be careful, and have picked up a number of tricks from my explorations to deal with these people. Only had to actually defend myself once, though, from some kind of jelly person that refused to stop advancing, even after I had fired a warning shot in their direction. Pretty sure the object they were carrying was some kind of weapon, so I’m not letting myself feel too bad about that one.

Sometimes the visitors die on arrival. The rifts can get pretty high up, and the fall… well, most races out there don’t seem designed to survive that kind of fall.

This woman, however, she was different. She was me: her name was Brightest, we had the same skin, hair and eye colour, we even had the same history: she was pulled to the Darkstar Dimension from her world when she was a child, and the rest of the people pulled with her eventually abandoned her. Thing is, she hadn’t been pulled to this Darkstar Dimension. She was exploring a rift, and the rift had taken her from her Darkstar (which glowed red, not purple) to mine.

I didn’t warm to her. She didn’t seem to have a Stickle over in her place, and clearly had issues with my explanation of how I can speak to my friend. I eventually pointed out a few low-orbiting rifts that I often use for supplies, and she took the hint and went on her way.

She identified the rift she came from, and I’ve marked it on the map as a red ball. Even took the time to draw a little dragon face on it.

Don’t have any plans to visit anytime soon, though. Unlike me, she clearly isn’t a people person.

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