The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name by Neal Barrett

Author:Neal Barrett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780440222309
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1996-03-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

It is time for you to see me.

Kosh’s words burned in her mind, but still she refused to listen to them.

“No, I won’t. I’ve changed my mind. Leave me alone!”

But it is time. You are ready.

“I’ll never be ready!”

Come...

Curled on her bed in a fetal position, eyes shut tightly, Martina Coles felt as if she were about to be torn apart. There was sanctuary neither in sleeping nor in wakefulness. Demons waited for her in both. Aliens.

Again Kosh’s words came, pushing in front of the insistent buzz that the Worm exerted on her.

There will be no other time.

“I cannot see you!”

Come...

A sob escaped her. Slowly she uncurled from the bed, afraid that she would break apart. She put her feet gently to the floor, concentrating on the act to block out the noises in her mind.

Good. You are coming.

She avoided a mirror on the wall, not looking at the haunted being reflected in its silver. She moved as if in a waking dream, from the room into the hall, to the lift tube, down to the Alien Sector.

Donning a methane breathing apparatus, she made her way to Kosh’s quarters, oblivious to the occasional mayhem around her, the fights in the hallways, an unconscious alien with its own protective breathing gear askew on its blue face.

Open the door. Come in.

A final time she sought to flee, but found herself unable to. If she went back to her room now she would never leave it again, but descend into her own mind, into a place of madness from which she would never escape.

The door opened, letting out a fog of methane which brushed over her faceplate.

She went in, and the door closed behind her.

Kosh was there, rising out of the cloud to stand before her.

She asked, “What is it you know? What have you seen?”

Here...

Kosh’s thoughts opened momentarily to her, in a floodlike light.

“Ohhhh!” she cried, as she was overcome by what washed over her.

And then she was in a place where there were not even dreams...

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