Anchor Knight (Soulship Book 3) by Nathan Thompson

Author:Nathan Thompson [Thompson, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-15T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“Are you sure you don’t want to bring it up?” I asked Nova, for the second time today. “She’s resting. We have time to talk about it.”

“No thanks,” Nova said as she placed the seed inside the small pit she had dug for it, before scooping the dirt back over it. “Sorry. I was just looking for something to pass the time. I’m not even sure I can remember exactly what it was I wanted to tell you. Pass me another seed, will you?”

We were both in the hydroponics chamber, planting seeds. Vessa had said that she would sleep in a little later today. Recovering her ship-body gave her a great amount of power and health, but she had gone so long without such things that they were a shock to her flesh-body. She wound up needing more rest than she said she would. But if that happened, she had told us yesterday, we were to go ahead and let her sleep in, but only for an hour or two at most.

I had absorbed a number of plants and random fruits during our missions on different planets. Some of those plants and fruits had seeds we could use, and Grandmother Mara had also shared a small bit of her garden from her Sourcepalace.

So here I was, planting seeds like a gardener or farmer, in the middle of a starship, with the occasional monster banging or roaring somewhere off in the distance, with a girl that was both my childhood friend and a part of another woman also on this ship, both of whom would act strangely from time to time, like Nova was doing so right now.

“Okay,” Nova suddenly said, as I injected a bit of wood qi into the second seed we had just planted. “You’re right. I need to bring this up so that we can both quit thinking about it.”

“Can you be more specific?” I asked, looking up at her. “There are a lot of things that I try not to spend too much time thinking about these days.”

Like the truth about the star system, and how my world was controlled by lazy tyrants and sinister dragons, and the fact that I slept a few dozen chambers away from creatures that would happily devour my Source energy and my face.

“I mean the thing you have to be really, really worried about,” Nova said. “The one you’re probably rejecting every time it comes to your mind, but you still have to spend energy denying it, when as a friend I should help you find closure on it, instead of just being afraid of the same thing myself.”

“Okay,” I said, shifting so that I could kneel in a more comfortable position. “I’d be happy to take whatever help you’re offering, Nova. You know that. We’ve been friends for years.”

“I know,” she said with a nod. “You’ve always been there for me, too. Which is why I want to help you deal with this right now.” She took a deep breath.

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