Quantum Rapture by James True

Author:James True [True, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Whale Cries

IT’S BEEN FOUR months since Io disappeared from the garden. On an island southeast of Fiji, Quan unrolled her jade mat to meditate. She could hear the heartbeat of humpbacks as far south as New Zealand. Quan stood erect, holding her hands open to either side. She tucked her thumbs into her palms and let out all of the breath from her lungs. After a deep collapse, she inhaled as she crossed one foot over the other, joining her knees into a fin. She tilted her head back and reached for the sky with her chin. The corners of her mouth pulled down into her shoulders. She felt the hair thicken from her head and pull through the roof of her mouth, scrubbing the top of her tongue like a bristle. Quan was a whale breaching the surface of the ocean.

Her body crashed back into the water as she plunged through the ocean's epidermis. Diving deep, through the layers of heat, she let out a moo and five long clicks in succession. She felt the strength from her giant tongue as it launched itself from the roof of her mouth. Her passion came out in a liquid telepathy. From thoughtful, tiny eyes, Quan watched the ripples of azure for an answer. She gave a second moo and five more clicks in the same sequence. Quan called Io over-and-over. She would wait here forever.

Her body pitched to its side in the familiar pose of sadness as her lungs burned. The ocean’s current around her tried to soothe her aching belly. Her call returned no answer. Quan arched her body downward in surrender. Her tail wanted to take away her pain, so it began to pump. A few pushes deeper and Quan felt the water cool. A few more pumps and the pressure started to burn her eyelids. Her fluke flicked rage as she stroked and pumped deeper into the dark. She was a fullspeed torpedo biting the ocean with her anger. With her lungs on empty, she smashes into the bottom in a mushroom cloud of mud.

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