Bright Star by Talia R. Blackwood

Author:Talia R. Blackwood [Blackwood, Talia R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

THE BALL of light the alien has left shines into the dark and abandoned hall of the Main Bridge. The object emits a sort of phosphorescence, pulsing as though it is breathing. Prince takes a couple of steps toward it.

“Wait,” I say. “I’ll get it for you.”

Prince waits.

I go closer and collect the ball. I can hold it in the palm of my hand. It’s strangely warm, irregular, with a supple coating around a soft, gelatinous center. It doesn’t seem to be any kind of danger. Indeed, while I hold it in my hand, a feeling of well-being and contentment spreads in my body.

I give the ball to Prince.

“How beautiful. What do you think it is, Phae?” he says, holding the luminous orb in the cupped palms of his hands, watching it with wonder. The blue glow lights up his pretty face. I realize the sphere pulses with the rhythm of his breathing. Or maybe it’s Prince who begins to breathe following the slow pace of the thing’s pulsing. In fact, looking at that light is very relaxing.

“Maybe it’s a kind of medicine.”

Prince doesn’t answer. But all at once, something obscures the starlight above the transparent roof, and Prince looks up. Alien Ship rises above us.

“Look, Phae!” Prince cries in wonder. He joins me, and together we watch some tiny dots detaching from Ship and drifting toward Alien Ship, driven by small, bright engines. At that distance, they look just like spiders, but we know they are the aliens. They are sailing in the void inside their exoskeletons. A gelatinous screen opens in one side of Alien Ship and swallows them. Some silent engines explode with a blinding blue light, and Alien Ship veers toward the unknown depths of Outside.

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