Transcendence (Aurora Rising Book Three) by G. S. Jennsen

Author:G. S. Jennsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sci-fi space opera, Sci Fi, Sci-fi, Sci-Fi Romance, Science Fiction - Adventure, Science Fiction, Science Fiction - General, Science Fiction - High Tech, Science Fiction - Space Opera, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction And Fantasy, science fiction romance, science fiction series, Science Fiction/Fantasy, science-fiction, Scif-fi, scifi, scifi romance, SciFi-Futuristic Romance, space adventure, Space Colonization, Space Exploration, space fleet, space fleets, Space Opera, Space Ships, space travel, Space Warfare, Spaceships
ISBN: 9780996014151
Publisher: Hypernova Publishing
Published: 2015-03-23T06:00:00+00:00

30

EARTH

EASC Headquarters

* * *

“I’m going to start decreasing the sedation now.”

—riot at Pillei spaceport 17 casualties 123.4811 tonnes of food consumed per year on Cronus mass of Eta Carinae-A 117M oww pain I skinned my knee Dad—

“This will let her consciousness ease into its new circumstances.”

—it’s dark and I’m scared measured velocity of Metigen swarmers 0.354mms truth is verifiable to the extent thoughts and statements correspond with actual things—

—his mouth tastes so good oh! truth verified by observed results dead why please no beautiful increase CO2-O2 conversion by 2.3% via introduction of phytoplankton for optimal atmospheric terraforming—

“Alex, can you hear me?”

—open your eyes open my eyes how here cranial nerve VII zygomatic branch trigger orbicularis oculi muscle or I could simply—

Eyes open. Hurts. Sharp corners—Abigail’s cold, analytical stare—don’t insult Abigail—Mom behind—is she afraid for me? of me?—is that what fear looks like on a human? sometimes sometimes they run—

“Yes. No—both. Yes. But why can’t—” she sensed her neck jerk, shoulders jerk “—I see no isn’t right—” stars rushing by how am I in them “—want to calculate speed of—” supernova too bright Connor sticking his tongue in her ear my ear eww don’t worry it gets better aliens departed too long “—already done. What now? We need to stop them coordinated I can—”

“Alex.”

Warmth. Oh my the warmth pheromones skin gripping vibration beneath can you feel it so human tell my hand to squeeze.

“Look at me.”

A pulse. Beat-beating against your my our palm. Alive.

Beat by beat the bottomless whirlwind of perceptions, data, images and sensations careening through her mind—so many how can this tiny skull hold them all—began to abate in time to the rhythm of not her pulse, but his.

“Please.”

Look we’ll look together.

A turn of her head to find his face. Incredible eyes now impossibly blue in her too-precise vision. They shone with tenderness and hope and faith and resilience and the faintest hint of stark terror. Yes, Valkyrie, that’s what love looks like on a human. Be quiet for me now? Only for a moment.

She covered Caleb’s hand, so firmly gripped around hers, with her free one. “Hi.”

A relieved breath tumbled from his lips. “Hi, yourself.”

She drew him closer to rest her forehead on his. “I’m still here, I swear. It’s just a little…weird.” Weird is this what the word means this exhilarating confusing okay yes weird will do quiet.

“I believe you.” He squeezed her hand once more, placed a soft kiss on her forehead—rush oxytocin endorphins are we dizzy—then withdrew, allowing Abigail to take his place.

Abigail ran a scanner around Alex’s head and down her chest. “Heart rate is accelerated but within safe parameters. Brain activity is off the charts in all regions but particularly the temporal lobe and, more surprisingly, across the limbic lobe. Most unusual.” She lowered her chin and considered Alex. “How do you feel?”

“Um…kind of shaky.” Flooded drowning in the ocean good thing I know how to swim. “The feedback loop is nasty, as if our thoughts are ricocheting off each other in a hall of mirrors.

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