Taken by the Spare: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance (Eudoxia Book 3) by Vilyn DeVine

Author:Vilyn DeVine [DeVine, Vilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

7: Penny

I know it is only a dream, yet I can’t escape it. I fight against my consciousness to let me go, but I am stuck.

I am on a ship, but it is floating on, water rather than in orbit. A hole is blown open where the navigation port should be. The wind whips my face with pellets of ice, but I can’t feel the cold sting of it.

There is so much shouting, screaming, and darkness that I can’t get my bearings.

Then I see it. Fire. It appears suddenly, awfully, and overtakes the floor I’m standing on. But I can’t get away. I don’t feel the heat of the fire, either, just as I did not feel the ice. It is as though the dream is protecting me from feeling the lick of the flames.

The screams. They are incredible. I know they will haunt me when I wake; I already know this.

And then … he’s there. Lacerta. At least, I think it’s him. He’s Hydorian, and so impossibly tall — the tallest Hydorian I have ever seen. His skin shimmers in the light of the fire. It’s him. I know it. He is so young, though. No more than a youth, really. Thirteen, maybe? My heart leaps when I see panic flare in his young eyes — panic, and fear.

He yells. Calls out names I do not know, but somewhere in me, I feel their significance. I know these names. I have heard them before. In the news, maybe?

The ship lurches, and he falls, slips right out of the blasted hole, and into the icy waters.

But I am still trapped. Stuck on the ship. A force holds me that I cannot reconcile. I run to the opening. The screaming has stopped, I realize. I can hear only Lacerta’s panicked bellows from the icy waters below the hole.

I can see him and I call out, but he cannot see me, or maybe it’s that he cannot hear me.

“Mother!” He screams, instead. “Father!”

No one comes to save the boy in the water, and I watch, helpless as he floats on a piece of debris from the sinking ship. I am powerless to do anything about it.

The whole scene slows as the water reaches my feet, bare and cold. I wear only a light shift nightgown, and it’s soon soaked through. Finally, I am fully submerged in the icy waters, pulled under the surface as the ship goes down. The flames, and Lacerta’s pleas are lost to me.

I try to yell out, but beneath the surface, there is no air. I cannot make a sound and I cannot breathe. I start to thrash and panic, then it all goes black.

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