Zen'zat by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

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July 14, 2112

Paul woke up at the sound of his wristwatch alarm, blinking off the haze of the past eight hours of sleep and sitting up in bed, suddenly remembering where he was as his brain caught up to reality. He climbed out of bed and hopped into the bathroom in the small quarters he’d been assigned in what the pyramid research staff referred to as the ‘hotel.’

Sitting a couple of tiers below the command deck, the hotel was the housing facility that Star Force had built inside the pyramid so the staff could live inside without having to commute back and forth, thus increasing the security of the site. It sat in the northwest corner of what had formerly been the Brat’mar ‘embassy.’ Each of the various races within the V’kit’no’sat appeared to have been given specific sections of the pyramid for their own uses, with the Human levels residing at the apex.

The Brat’mar, or Triceratops, had several larger rooms within their domain at what Star Force had previously believed to have been at about center level within the pyramid. What the ridged, wide open areas were used for hadn’t yet been determined, but it made sense for the hotel to be placed in a central location to facilitate the local commute to their workstations, given that some of them had miles to travel inside the twisting confines to get from one portion of the structure to another.

Shaving then taking a quick shower, Paul readied himself for another long day of exploration and headed over to the cafeteria for a bit of breakfast before meeting up with Jason and several other Archons for a morning run around the command deck. It had been a long flight in that first day, and with all the excitement of new discoveries being unlocked they’d worked right through their normal sleep period and into the next day. As much as Paul wanted to be back out there digging through records and exploring the various chambers he and the others knew that they needed sleep, so he’d resigned himself to getting a good 8 hours in last night.

Normally a light sleeper, Paul hadn’t woke once during the night, underscoring how much he’d needed the rest to defrag his brain. The morning run would help salve their missing training time, as well as let them explore the huge room as they crisscrossing the distances between cushioned pedestals while keeping up sub 6:00 pace. By the time they’d made their first lap Paul and Jason had picked up 22 other Archons following in their wake in a long, single file line. Two other groups were also running the deck at various points, either far behind or far ahead of them, but none of them were ambitious enough to hit the access ramps, given their steep incline and irregular footing.

Paul got in an hour and a half, then broke off to head up to the newly discovered holographic sparring program and give it a try…at the beginner levels.

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