Thumbelalien: A Space Age Fairy Tale by J. M. Page

Author:J. M. Page [Page, J. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

She didn’t think she’d fallen asleep, but must have, because she woke to the sound of arguing. It took a moment for everything to filter in through the haze of sleep — memories of where they were, of fixing parts of this ship, and fighting with Bain. Bain who was still speaking in a very angry voice, but to whom?

There was a fuzz in her brain, like cotton batting filtering everything. She’d gone too long without sleep and now that she’d gotten some, her body wasn’t ready to quit. But she forced herself to focus and heard the familiar grunting noises that made her eyelids fly open.

One of the guards was back, standing in the doorway, pointing his weapon at Bain who kept lobbing insults and demands at him.

“Your entire pathetic ship will be nothing but dust once my mother hears about this,” Bain said, venom spewing forth. Lina glared at him; he had no way of making good on those promises — by all accounts, Mabnoa had no weapons capable of such a thing — and he was just making matters worse.

She stood up quickly, feeling a little dizzy as she did, but shoved that feeling away, racing to Bain’s side, stepping between him and the Fibbun guard.

“What is going on here?”

“He just came barging in with that thing and went for you,” Bain said, practically growling. “Still think they’re so harmless?”

She huffed and turned away from him, meeting the strange yellow eyes of the guard. She couldn’t be totally sure, but she thought this was the same one who’d been with her in Quarantine.

“What’s happening?” she asked him, trying to read his expression. It wasn’t easy. But the guard at least lowered his weapon, gesturing around the room as he said something in his garbled language. The gestures seemed random, but then Lina realized he was pointing to her repairs, trying to say something about that. She remembered the condition the rest of the ship was in and nodded.

“Yeah, I did that. I can help in other places too,” she said.

“Are you out of your mind?” Bain roared from behind her. She just shot a fierce glare over her shoulder.

“You can help me or shut up, but those are the only choices,” she snapped at him. He was being utterly ridiculous and she couldn’t do this with him working against her.

He seemed to choose ‘shutting up’ as his option. Whatever. As long as he wasn’t getting in her way.

The guard jerked his head toward the doorway, seeming to tell Lina to come with him.

“What about him?” she asked, pointing to Bain. The guard grumbled something and sneered at him, practically foaming at the mouth.

Lina sighed, her shoulders slumping with resignation. “Yeah, fair enough.” Whatever the guard wanted her for, she’d have to do it alone. Bain had proven himself to be an obstacle and until he saw reason, she just couldn’t risk having him around.

“I guess I’ll see you later,” she said to Bain, stepping towards the doorway as the guard backed out.

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