Time Lock by Micah Caida

Author:Micah Caida
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, time travel, teen fiction, clean wholesome, survival stories, young adult fantasy, magical realism
Publisher: Silver Hawk Press LLC
Published: 2014-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Rayen didn’t want to sit around Jaxxson’s hut being miserable alone, so she went searching for Tony and V’ru. Those two were their best hope at figuring out what to do with this computer and the prophecy.

At V’ru’s kamara, she lifted her hand and stalled it in midair when she heard V’ru shout, “Yes! I win.”

Tony’s deep voice chuckled. “You would be a legendary gamer in my time.”

What had happened to the mouthy Jersey boy she’d met only days ago? It felt like eons since she’d first walked into the Byzantine Institute.

“Would you like to enter, Rayen?” V’ru called out.

Lifting an eyebrow at him that V’ru couldn’t see— or could he? —she answered, “Yes.”

“Put your hand on the exterior.”

She did and the next thing she knew she was standing inside his bubble. From the outside, it appeared the size of the room she had in the girls’ dorm back at school, but inside made a liar of the exterior. “How is it that your kamara is so much larger on the inside than it is on the outside?”

V’ru and Tony sat cross-legged three strides from her with a holographic screen hovering between them displaying some game. V’ru tilted his skinny chin up. “Can you comprehend multivariable calculus?”

“No. Never heard of it.”

“Then explaining the interior of this kamara would be impossible with your limited intellect.”

Just when she thought she was going to like this kid he spits out an insult that she can’t even counter.

Tony’s failed attempt at hiding his snort only annoyed her more. Pinning a gaze in his direction, she said, “When you finish enjoying yourselves at my expense, let me know because you two can use all that intellect you’re so proud of to solve our problem.”

Coughing and clearing his throat to wipe away his humor, Tony said, “Sit down and tell us what you need.”

She squatted down and debated on sitting. That was only one step from stretching out on this cushy floor that looked like the surface of a cloud.

Her body cried to sink into it, but she persevered and ended up cross-legged, too. “We have to figure out the prophecy and make that computer work.”

“What have you been smokin’, Xena?” Tony clearly thought she was out of her mind.

V’ru scratched between his eyebrows for a moment then explained, “I have spent many hours researching the prophecy. I know more than anyone here and I am not able to decipher all the meanings behind the words.”

That didn’t mean someone else couldn’t even if V’ru might find that unimaginable. “We have to search until we find answers,” she countered.

Tony watched her with a little more concern. “What’s the computer have to do with anything?”

“The prophecy came from a shaman named Damianus in Greece two thousand years ago. Isn’t that correct, V’ru?”

“That was the belief. Damianus was a fetial.”

“But he was possibly a shaman, too, right?”

V’ru eyed her suspiciously and explained, “Damianus appeared physically different from other Greeks. He is thought to have come from what was later known as Siberia on the Asian continent.

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