Time Ender by Debra Chapoton

Author:Debra Chapoton [Chapoton, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: aliens, Fantasy, Fiction, science fiction
ISBN: 9781974261444
Google: jxyWtAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1974261441
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

#Discovery

I TOOK A few prolonged breaths and waited. Nobody was helping me up. Boyfriend, boyfriend, where are you?

More breaths. No air. Hey, I wasn’t breathing at all.

I stared up at Alex who stood transfixed.

Coreg too.

I was the only one of us whose eyes could move. If this wasn’t me doing a phenomenally slow time-bend, then what was it? A hiccup in time?

Time. At least I could see and think.

Think about time. Not twelve double-moons. I didn’t believe it. Suddenly I didn’t believe any time at all had passed. In some random way we’d created a time-stoppage similar to what Marcum could do. That had to be it.

Lights. Camera. Cue the action.

But I could not move. Hashtag stuck in time.

Yes, stuck in time and now with a vision: I saw men on those horrible tables, turning deep purple and black, crying out in pain—and liking it. I saw technicians sitting in this room, scanning readouts and listening to the cries of addicts. A clear image came to me of Marcum’s blue-black head pressed to a window, watching the addicts as a ramik clanged and the lights flickered. Marcum looked as disgusted as I felt. Next to him was Coreg, smirking and smug with a secret knowledge about the club. The scene changed; they were gone. I saw the technicians taking note of their departure and scurrying around this room, sending and receiving information, recording meetings, and paying no more attention to the stream of addicts who helped themselves to automatic devices.

Gasp. End of vision.

Movement.

Alex’s hands were under both my armpits and he hefted me upright.

“Another one?” he said.

I nodded. The vision had dissipated but I was left with an impression of defiance and of time stopping. I looked to Coreg. “Check the time again. I don’t believe it’s been twelve double-moons. Not even one. I think we’ve had an out of time experience like what Marcum can do.”

Coreg scoffed, but he checked his ring and the readout of a control on the wall. He clucked softly. “One time unit since we left the thotti, that’s all.” The look on his face said what he couldn’t: he’d been wrong and he didn’t understand what had happened.

“This is a resistance headquarters.” The words were out of my mouth before I knew I was going to say them.

Coreg blanched. Then cursed. “Yes. You … you did what Marcum …”

Funny how my brain was processing and drawing conclusions without effort. I knew what he was going to say. “You brought Marcum here so he’d react and show his time-stopping ability. Right?”

He nodded. Stunned, obviously. I knew exactly which emoji to paste on his forehead.

“When I was sent to the Academy,” he paused, obviously not wanting to reveal some long-kept secret, “I’d been tasked by Second Commander Dace with trying to expose Marcum’s ability to stop time. Dace had been sure he could do it, based on a genetic study he had, and he’d ordered me to bring Marcum here—to shock him—in the hope of activating what he called the TS theory.

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