Splinter Salem Part Three by Wayne Hill

Author:Wayne Hill [Hill, Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wayne Hill
Published: 2021-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

POSSIBLY THE LAST EVER device designed and made by Splinter Salem, at least in this universe, springs into action.

The red liquid inside of the empty Jack Daniels bottle incorporated into the device contains Splinter’s blood. Crudely, drunkenly, ingeniously, he had incorporated himself into the spacecraft, a spacecraft that — combined with his EPC and the Nirmanan time-portal — could pass through multiple realities. By pumping some of his blood around the ship, he tricked the Nirmanan pod into recognising the ship as his body.

Once the Splinter-ship-pod gestalt reaches the purple portal in the centre of the Sun it is atomised, destroyed. It is deconstructed to its component quarks — swarming, swirling, flickering — and then reordered. This cycle of obliteration and reformation repeats several seconds later, and then again, a second after that. These death and rebirth cycles accelerate until they can barely be noticed.

Splinter’s mind screams in protest at this hallucinogenic experience and tries to protect itself by shutting down — one of our more anciently evolved protection mechanisms. Consciousness of this flickering non-existence fading, Splinter attempts, more from habit than inclination, to cool his forehead on his metal arm. The mech-arm is no longer there and — as nothingness finally claws him into its cold embrace — he glimpses, with eyes unblurred by age or alcohol, two normal and immaculate arms.

Lying unconscious on the floor of the SS Shit, Splinter is oblivious as trillions of alternate realities are traversed in less than the time it takes for a match to flare.

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