Kraken Orbital by James Stubbs

Author:James Stubbs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure, future, space, ghost, ghost and intrigue

Chapter 12

Engineering

‘What’s your name?’ I work up the courage to ask her as I try to stand and stretch in the eerie light of the new area. I look at her but only briefly. I can feel myself start to blush every time I meet her eyes and her lips start to curl into a smile for me.

‘You don’t know?’ She asks sweetly but disguises a small amount of offence. She knows who I am. That much is clear. But I guess she would given what I went and did. I know her by face. By her body and its tantalizing contours. But I don’t know her name even though I really wish I did. I shake my head. I’m too embarrassed to say anything.

‘It’s Lucy.’ She doesn’t add a surname and I’ve ran out of courage to ask it. She calms her voice and introduces herself like we had been life long friends. Like I have amnesia or something. My head is spinning with questions that I want to ask her. I try to focus on the area and not on her.

She must think I’m ignorant but I just can’t look at her. I pace around a little to get a feel of the place. The floor is polished clean but the walls are caked in soot and flame scars. The fire that destroyed most of the inside of the ship, and probably the same one that killed my friend Kolt, must have been severe, quick and relentless.

‘How did you make it here before me?’ I glance to her gorgeous face but quickly look away. Her thin smile fades into a frown almost instantly. I feel like I’ve upset her. Time to man up. Time to stop acting like a smitten teenager. I need to engage with her and get over a silly little crush I seem to have developed out of nothing. I stop scouring the floor, looking for bodies I’m afraid to recognize, and face her head on for the first time.

‘What is it.’ I reach out a brave hand to comfort her. She lets me get close. I run my hand close to her and run my open palm across her cold cheek as she begins to sob.

‘I…’ she begins. I can already guess how the sentence will end and it sends my stomach to the pits yet again. ‘I don’t remember.’ I want to shiver at her admission. I want to tell myself that it’s just coincidence and it has nothing to do with the way Kolt was. I think she can sense that she has shaken me. I rub her cheek a few times and even force a smile. She reaches up and holds my hand in hers. I relish the moment. I don’t care how silly it is. If it is real or not. I just want to touch her and I love that she wants to hold my hand back.

I manage to press the issue after basking in her love for just a moment.

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