Daemos Rising by David J Howe

Author:David J Howe [Howe, David J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781845839796
Publisher: Telos Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

4

Lost in Time

Andy opened his eyes. He felt odd, as though he had been sleeping on his arm, and it had all gone pins and needles and numb. Except that it was his whole body.

He looked down at his hands. They were there. And he was wearing his favourite silvery suit.

His legs and feet seemed to be there as well.

But where was he?

He looked around. He seemed to be back on Earth, in Devil’s End, at the place that he and Laura … that he and Laura … he couldn’t quite place the thought. Something had happened. They had been caught. Dragged back through time to the Sodality’s future. But there, the intense pressures of the time vortex, and the powerful connection that the Sodality were maintaining back to this time … was he alive?

Andy concentrated for a moment. He could sense a channel nearby, and he found that he was able to draw a little of the power from it.

He looked at his hands and they faded from view momentarily before solidifying into what looked like real flesh.

He remembered the tearing sensation as the Sodality tried to destroy him. It appeared they only partially succeeded, and now he was in this ghost-like form, separated from his body, and thrown back to this key nexus point.

If he focussed, he could see all times laid out before him. Perhaps this was his own time snake. He could see places he had been, battles he had fought, and he felt that he could step into them, perhaps to relive them, perhaps to influence them.

More importantly was the fact that he was in this place at this time. An event of clear importance to the Sodality was about to take place, and he was right in the line of fire so to speak.

The problem was, what to do?

Andy tried heading to the cottage. Perhaps if he could talk to Cavendish, to warn him.

Cavendish? Who was Cavendish?

Andy realised that past, present and future were all accessible to him. He knew what was going to happen, he just had no clue as to how to stop it. He knew who Cavendish was, what he had done, what he was going to do …

He had never felt so helpless.

Andy slipped through the cracks in now and found himself at the clearing where Kate Lethbridge-Stewart was about to arrive.

There was a movement in the bushes, and she stepped out, looking concerned.

Andy drew some power from the portal, and his foot cracked against a stick on the ground. The extent to which he could influence his surroundings was limited.

‘Hello? Anyone there?’

Kate called out and looked around. At one point she looked directly at Andy, but didn’t see him.

‘Is this you?’ she asked the statue. ‘I don’t need this. So I can’t just leave, is that it?’

While she pulled out her mobile phone – an object long obsolete in Andy’s time, but which he recognised the function of at an intellectual level, and indeed had seen himself during his many trips to this time – Andy crept back around the clearing.

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