The Seed Garden by D. B. Reynolds-Moreton

Author:D. B. Reynolds-Moreton [Reynolds-Moreton, D. B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: sci-fi-cafe.com
Published: 2011-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Who’s there?

With nothing else to do, Jed went through to the main control room and began to examine the strange looking equipment lining the walls. None of it suggested what it might be intended for, with the exception of one unit.

An alpha numeric key pad sat on a small shelf which jutted out from the wall, above which a lifeless viewing screen stared blankly back at him. Jed could not remember seeing it when he had looked around the previous day, and wondered if it had been added during his sleep period.

The numbers and letters were just the same as those on the ship, and such were peculiar to his race of people. A cold shiver rippled down his spine.

‘Either the last person here was of my people, or there is some intelligence here.’ Tree had been able to see his mental image pictures, and act on them, and so had something else, if the keyboard was anything to go by. It might just be a very clever computer with an advanced sensing device, or was it something else? He did not like the idea of that.

So far, he had considered the whole complex was purely mechanical, albeit a bright one, but the thought that there was an ‘intelligence’ present unnerved him a little.

Not thinking that anything would happen because the screen was unlit, he idly tapped in ‘Hello.’ and stood back.

‘Hello Jed.’ instantly flashed up in bright green letters on the screen above the keyboard.

‘Bloody hell.’ Jed was badly shaken by the response.

His fingers nervously tapped out ‘Who are you?’

The screen remained resolutely blank, despite several permutations of the same basic query, so he gave up for the time being, intending to try again when he had formulated a few more suitably crafty questions.

Looking at the main control desk, Jed realized that he had gained one positive benefit from his dreams, he could still remember what the symbols meant, except for a very few on the raised ledge above the main desk area.

Recalling the crumbling trees of his dream, he mounted the super seat and brought the main screen to life, the brilliant reality of the star field giving him a brief feeling of vertigo as the illusion of flying through space enveloped him.

He wanted to find the forested planet in his dream, but then realized the dream had begun in the forest, so he had no idea what the sun of the system looked like.

A twinkling blue star caught his attention, and using the cross hairs, he centred in on the planetary system. Four worlds out from the sun, a white ball of cloud looked unusual enough to bear investigation, and he homed in on it, increasing the magnification until the water vapour covered planet filled the screen. Thick dirty clouds rushed at him as the viewing device drove down towards the surface, and then the motion stopped.

Turbulent grey clouds encompassed the world, holding it in perpetual twilight, making finite details difficult to observe.

A thick oily sea sent a series of pathetically weak ripples onto a shore line of greasy looking rounded pebbles.

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