The Last Portal by Robert Cole

Author:Robert Cole
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: paranormal action adenture, young teenage, fantasy, interdimensional fantasy, paranormaal, thriller action and adventure

An hour later, at the junction of two valleys, a party of ten, consisting of two Caan, the Mytar, Batarr, Altac and three Taal, separated from the main company. The going was hard. The valley they had taken climbed steeply between two snow-capped peaks. Along its length, a torrent of foaming water spilled down moss-covered boulders, or over cliffs carved from basalt lava flows. These obstacles had to be negotiated by beating a path through the surrounding undergrowth, thick with strangler vines and prickly bushes. The Taal led the way, cutting a path with huge hatchets. Despite the cold weather, their bodies were soon covered in sweat from their exertions.

Chris walked alongside Susie who, in contrast to Joe, seemed as though she was almost enjoying herself.

‘What have you found?’ he asked, peering over her shoulder.

Susie had picked up what Chris would have called a rabbit on Earth. ‘It’s what Altac calls an ilper,’ she replied, stroking its fur.

‘Is it sick?’

‘No, it’s quite healthy, just startled by all this activity.’ She placed the ilper down and it ran into a nearby bush.

‘So, the animals around here must be pretty tame.’

She shook her head. ‘Quite the opposite.’

Then he realised: Susie’s powers, like his own, were still growing. ‘Can you control animals?’

She stood up and flicked some strands of hair from her face. ‘No, not really, but I am beginning to understand their thoughts...maybe even communicate with them. It’s really cool.’ She flashed a smile at him, then ran over to a nearby tree and placed both hands on it. ‘This tree is about eighty years old. It has borers and some kind of grub eating its leaves.’ She moved her hands to different parts of the trunk, closing her eyes in concentration. ‘I can even tell what animals live in it and what animals regularly visit it. I’m starting to sense all the life of this planet.’

‘Wow, that’s cool,’ Chris agreed, viewing Susie with a new sense of awe.

‘But I can’t do what you can do. I can’t read people’s thoughts, or travel in my mind to distant places.’

‘But between us,’ Chris added with a smile, ‘we can eavesdrop on just about all the life of this planet.’

She beamed broadly back at him.

‘Have you told Joe?’ Chris asked.

Susie paused thoughtfully. ‘I think this is the last thing he would want to hear.’

‘Hmm… How about Batarr?’

She shook her head. ‘I was going to a number of times, but... well I felt there was something not quite right about telling him.’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Something about his mood.’

‘Can you sense feelings?’

‘Sometimes...although it’s more that he just seems pre-occupied.’

Chris nodded. ‘Then don’t tell him for now.’

When the red ball of the sun had reached its highest point in the sky, the company paused for lunch. They were perched above a cliff that provided spectacular views right down the valley. Above them, a grey mist, like a huge blanket, was rolling down the valley, engulfing all in its path. By the time lunch was over, the first tentacles of mist were creeping across the sun, diffusing the light into deep-reds and purples.

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