Underground by P S Power

Author:P S Power [Power, P S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orange Cat Publishing
Published: 2019-09-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter seven- Martha

Martha vaguely recalled going into a room, just before the change took place for her. During the event there had been a voice speaking, but that was all she could recall of what she’d done. People told her that she looked different when it happened. A disgusting one, from the sound of it.

Looking around she understood that she was in the front office space. The spot where you checked in, if it was needed, after being outside for any length of time. No one bothered her that way, though she didn’t venture outside too often. After all, she could turn into the thing that she became, a weird machine with a floating and exposed brain, at any time. Doing it on purpose was better for her, since she could get someplace safe first. If information was coming in and she was walking down the street, her change wouldn’t wait for her at all.

One brick in the right place, or even a curious child with a stick, might well kill her, in her more vulnerable state.

Still, she had the report, so understood why everyone was standing there, looking grim.

Her voice shook a bit, being she was scared. Terrified really. Being old had done that to her. Her face didn’t really look her age, of course. She was in her seventies, even though most thought of her as a well put together fifty. Some said younger than that. Why that was, she didn’t know. Her own mother had looked ancient by the time she’d hit sixty. It covered all of her though. Martha’s whole body was young. Not just spry, either. She felt good, after each change. Not strong, really, but healthy. She didn’t have any arthritis and her old asthma, the bane of her childhood, had gone away when she’d first popped, some thirty years before.

For a while she hadn’t really noticed that anything had taken place, other than blackouts and a strange voice speaking to her. Not until her husband saw her change the first time. Then, well, everything had gone away in her life after that. Luckily the voice had known how to handle finances and make money in the markets. Otherwise she might well have starved to death.

She shook, now.

“It sounds like we have more visitors coming? Military… I don’t know what to do about it.” Truly, running was the only thing to come to mind that day. Martha was about as able to fight an army as she was to be a movie star. That was, she could fantasize about it, but that wouldn’t change the fact that it wasn’t going to happen in real life.

Caroline, her young friend, seemed frightened and took Mr. Clover’s hand, for comfort. That was an attractive idea to her as well. He looked like a goat, complete with hooves, but he also seemed powerful. Strong in a way that left her feeling safe. More so than being on her own would have allowed.

Pamela, who was a bit abrasive at the best of times, though it was clear she meant well, made an angry sound.

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