Eden by Tim Lebbon

Author:Tim Lebbon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan

KAT

Kat is on the move. She’s little more than a passenger, but her senses stretch further than ever before. Not only can she see the forest passing by as she runs under the impetus of something else, but she can also feel other, stranger movements, and see other sights. One moment the trees are tall, the ground close, and she can smell the dankness of soil and feel prickly shrubs stroking her face as she darts from cover to cover. With her next breath she is floating high above the tree canopy, and as the views open out around her, she gasps at the scale, the depth of the world she is becoming part of, the clarity of vision. She slithers and runs, crawls and flies, and each sense and view offered her is different—richer colours, starker outlines, visions enhanced by smell, vague shadows given form through taste. The sensations are alien and they twist and turn her mind into baffling contortions.

Whatever has intruded into her mind—a painless invasion, startling and fascinating at the same time—is also part of the land and some of its creatures. This strange consciousness has driven her down deep, compressing everything she is into a smaller, more dense whole. It welcomes the flood of different visions, signs and senses, and revels in them. It can understand and translate input from lynx and rattler, squirrel and eagle, whereas she feels her mind filling too quickly. Overload threatens. She wishes she could shut off the information, ease back on her senses.

But she is not in charge of her eyes or mouth, nose or ears. She has no control over her arms and legs. Disassociated, she runs, but the real Kat is being carried.

She knows what she is being taken towards. It has all happened before, red and wet, and for a short while she believed that she’d escaped.

Now she knows where the people are. She knows that the ones she loves are here. She wishes she had never sent Jenn that single, loaded message, wishes she had never reconnected. She wants to scream a warning at them, but she is trapped, helpless inside the wild elemental thing that has taken her. And for a while—just a short moment, when she lets go and becomes more like it than like herself—she understands its purpose.

Then she is back, and she dreads the terrible things that are about to happen.

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