Ouroboros 3: Repeat by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Bell, Odette C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Exploration, Space Opera, Space Exploration, Time Travel
Amazon: B00JXT0AOU
Goodreads: 22426517
Publisher: Odette C. Bell
Published: 2014-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Carson Blake

He stood there behind her, his hand locked on her chair. He was gladdened when she shifted back and rested her head on this hand.

He wanted to hold her shoulders, but he knew he shouldn’t distract her. So he just waited.

And waited.

Until finally she jolted.

It was a violent move, and he quickly called her name.

‘Hey, Nida, Nida, are you alright?’ He moved around in front of her, his gaze narrowed in panic.

Her eyes had rolled into the back of her head.

He leaned down, grabbed her shoulder, and looked into her eyes. ‘Nida? Nida?’ he brushed his hands over her cheek, but the skin was ice cold. ‘God,’ he yelped as he yanked his hand back.

Then he stared at her.

And waited.

Was she having another vision?

Was that how the entity was going to contact her?

No.

In that moment, her lips parted and her eyes closed. Then the entity spoke. ‘Take me home. Back. Back. Take me home now. No stop. I must return. Back to Remus 12. Now. Now.’

Carson jolted back.

He . . . hadn’t wanted to hear that.

He’d needed the entity to say protecting the United Galactic Coalition was the right thing to do. He needed it to tell him that they had its leave to do what they had to correct the mistakes they’d made. To fix history.

‘I command you to take me back,’ the entity spat, its voice shaking up through Nida’s throat.

He considered it, and he considered her.

She couldn’t move; she was being controlled. From her rolled-back eyes to her stiff lips, it wasn’t her any more.

He’d trusted the entity. He’d let it send them into the past. He'd fought for it, and he’d lost.

He couldn’t sacrifice the United Galactic Coalition for it though . . . .

Yet could he sacrifice reality for the United Galactic Coalition? The entity had warned them both on multiple occasions that if it corrupted completely, it could destroy space time.

He didn't know if that was true, but did he have the right to risk it? It could send them through time, it could create a swirling vortex, it could give someone the ability to speak Vexian with nothing more than a touch. It was indisputably powerful, yet was it telling the truth?

‘Take me back,’ the entity roared, that ancient note to its voice now twisting with rage.

He’d never heard it desperate like this, and neither had he experienced its anger.

. . . .

Or maybe he had. Unbidden, memories of what it had done to those Barbarians rose in his mind.

It had squashed them against the walls and ceiling of the Farsight, squeezing the breath and blood from their lips and nostrils.

It had killed them.

At the time, he’d tried to justify it to Nida by assuring her the entity had only acted in self-defence.

. . . .

Now he wasn’t so sure. Nida had taken hold of the entity’s power before, and not once had she brutally killed anyone with it.

For the very first time, he started to doubt.

‘Take me back,’ the entity said again, ‘or your reality will be destroyed.

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