Clairvoyance by J D Cavalida

Author:J D Cavalida [Cavalida, J D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-27T23:00:00+00:00

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I was greeted on the small transport ship by a tall, gangly flight attendant. She had the long, spidery fingers, splayed toes, and pale skin of someone who had spent too much of her life in zero gravity. Her parents had probably worked in space, and she had grown up under weak g-forces. By now, irreversible damage would have been done to her body, especially to her heart. She would not be able to set foot on Earth, or any planet with more than half of normal gravity, for longer than a few hours.

I pitied her. But she got to spend her life in the open, voyaging freely from place to place, without fear, without the pressure and weight of an entire race on her back.

We made our way through the ship. She showed me into a cabin where artificial gravity pulled me to the floor. Earth gravity. It was weaker than what I was used to on Planet Nera. I felt wonderfully light, incredibly strong and solid. But I also felt like I couldn't quite breathe properly, and I always had a vaguely nauseating sense of drifting.

Food was served. No one looked at me funny when I refused to eat. They assumed that being fired out of a Starframe - at faster than three hundred miles per hour in one direction whilst the momentum of the Starframe itself carried you at hundreds of miles per minute in the other - was not great for the appetite.

We landed at the moon an hour after my rendezvous with the transport. The gravity there was about equal to Earth, as well. At least it was inside the bubble of the lunar cities. Outside, I watched tourists and workers bouncing along on the grayish-white lunar regolith, floating up like balloons and sinking as though falling through water. It looked like a lot of fun, but I didn't want to subject my body to any more unusual experiences today.

There were security checkpoints as we entered the city. I made it through all of them just fine. I was not stopped or questioned. No one looked at me twice. I was surprised that they couldn't smell my fear, or at least see it in my posture and expression. Because I really was terrified.

I was entering a new life in a new body. I was an infiltrator, a lone soldier, fighting for a cause that no one else cared about.

But I had the voice of Edwin Caldwell to keep me company. Always he whispered in the back of my mind. He was a ghost, a spiritual guide through this strange new world. I could not be rid of him. I had become him.

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