The Kybion by Jane Palmer

Author:Jane Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: aliens, student, humour, longevity, energy vampire, psychics, sophisticated android, galactic law, aquatic robots, black police inspector
Publisher: Dodo Books

CHAPTER 13

Anaru’s spontaneous experiment had scoured the room where Tasmin, Mrs Tavistock, and Wendle sat. Instead of dragging Toby’s spirit to join them in the loop, Wendle’s crumpled body suddenly appeared.

Opu could feel herself panicking. ‘You used too much power!’

Anaru caught her breath and watched Wendle’s body rapidly disintegrate. ‘It’s just as well he was already dead.’

‘Our atmosphere would have killed him instantly anyway. We’d better make sure Annac never finds out about this. She’ll think we’ve been using the Kybini System on living tissue. That would make her really angry, especially as she never managed to work out how to do it herself.’

‘That’s the least of our worries.’

‘What now?’ Opu hadn’t anticipated anything worse than impending annihilation.

‘Apparently something the human had was a little more resilient. Look.’ Anaru pointed to the pile of dust, all that remained of Wendle. In it sat the small blinking sphere he had been carrying for over a century.

‘Now we have the transmitter,’ Opu was too petrified to raise her voice. ‘That was not quite what I had in mind.’

‘Could we use the Kybini System to transport it somewhere else before the Star Dancer turns up?’

‘There won’t be time, and we have to make contact with the entity anyway.’

‘Telepathic contact is one thing; I’m not too keen on sitting in the same room with the energy of a small sun. I’ve been hardened to most things over the years, but sudden incineration has not been one of them.’

‘You’d better go and tell control what’s happened.’

‘I can’t do that,’ Anaru protested. ‘You’re not a seer and could never handle this equipment.’

‘What’s the chance of us communicating with the Star Dancer?’

‘At close range? We’ll have to leave the loop.’

Reluctantly Opu obeyed. ‘How long?’

‘Impossible to say. Entities like this don’t have the same sense of time as us. It could already be here.’

‘Could it be a spirit?’

‘The conscious spirit of living energy? Let’s hope it has an intellect, as opposed to being just cosmically enraged.’

‘You’re reassurance incarnate.’

Opu and Anaru stretched their wings and waited.

The dust that had once been Wendle’s body began to gently scatter. Without warning a pillar of energy was towering before them inside the loop, drinking the power from Anaru’s equipment. It made no sound, which was more terrifying than if it had roared with rage.

‘It is a spirit,’ the seer whispered. ‘I can sense it.’

‘Well, let’s hope it’s friendly,’ Opu muttered into her beak.

A shape started to form in the blindingly bright energy.

‘It looks like a human.’ Anaru gasped.

‘They can’t be that backward if they can do this.’ Opu looked up at the small-skulled creature perched on top of ridiculously long legs. She was tempted to reach out and touch the glowing form.

‘Don’t do that! There’s enough power to incinerate this side of the city!’

Opu pulled back quickly, wondering how she could have been so idiotic. The strange long-limbed creature with streaming hair entwined by swirling ribbons of energy was so fascinating, she almost forgot that Ojal’s survival was dependent on her wits.

‘What

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