The Timelost (preview) by Chris Turner

The Timelost (preview) by Chris Turner

Author:Chris Turner
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


Back in the laboratory, Audra looked out from her tank with an expression bordering on venomous. She was alive, but barely. More birthlings were growing in her. She could feel them stirring under her skin like maggots. Loathsome creatures. Spawn fathered by the fecund swordfish creature. At least something for her to eat.

These locusts’ intelligence was inferior to hers. True, they had captured her, but theirs was only a temporary victory. One of the things would slip up—and when it did…she would not be lenient, or so naive and unprepared as before. It was only because of the cursed narwhal spawn that she had been taken anyway.

As for the human, Miko—a flutter of mixed emotions rose in her breast. The creature had shown no gratitude for the service she had granted. He would have been killed, or permanently bottled had she not intervened. True, to save her own skin, she had acted.

Likely her human mate would be captured by the fiends before long, and this possibility irked her. The thought of him, like her, also encased in a tube, the life essence continually siphoned out of him… She was robust, able to handle the rigour, but he was weak. How easily they had caught him and trapped him like a fly in a bottle.

Audra came as close to a sigh as she ever would.

Foolish human! Angst pulsed from her consciousness, rippling out through the water, bouncing off the glass. Her tentacles swept out and battered against the glass.

Locust heads turned, then refocused on their work.

The wounds from the wolf-terrors back on Rogos had been almost enough to keep her from fighting, and now these insectoids had scratched her with their crude tools and burned her with their lasers. No matter. The liquid in which she was immersed was helping her heal. She could feel revitalizing pulsations. There would be blood to pay in the end—by all.

She let up on her pounding. One of the more primitive creatures paused before the glass and stared at her with its glassy globular eyes, as if divining what she was thinking. It was smaller, and weaker, even more repulsive-looking than the others, with a pale, sickly aqua-hued carapace and drooping antennae. A bubble rippled from Audra’s polyp of a mouth. She was not in a stupor like the two other slaves on either side of her that floated in their tubes, staring goggle-eyed.

What was this miniature creature’s next move? She narrowed her smudges of eyes craftily. The locust reached a claw-pincer for the wire that dangled down the side of her tank.

Audra watched enthralled, reflective, and waited as she set to work on the possibility of escape.

Her gaze caught the glowing amber plates arrayed at the far end of the room. It was via these devices that she had come into this hateful world. The portal mechanism…interesting, ingenious. Even scientists on her world would flutter their tentacles; they had not such science. Doubtless a stolen technology. She knew all about piracy, being a grushruk. How would the human’s primitive mind term it? A plunderer.



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