Wicked Legends: A Dystopian Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Collection by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

André stared at the planet in the window, the colonel’s conversation and his thoughts all forgotten in the wake of the beauty before him. He blinked, wondering when this hallucination would give way to reality. He’d had so many over the last couple of years, but this one beat them all. Even the drink, what the man next to him had called water, felt so real. Cool and refreshing going down but hot and acidic coming back up. His eyes dropped to the bottle in his hand and he squeezed it, listening to the crumple of plastic under his fingers.

How can I trust this?

Sighing, he took another sip. Cool liquid slid down his sore throat, coating, calming the burn and causing his stomach to rumble, drawing Colonel Robbins’s attention away from the controls.

“What types of food do you eat?” Colonel Robbins asked.

André stared at the colonel. This has got to be a dream. Why else would I be able to understand what he’s saying? The irony caught him off guard. The odds of this being real were insane and he knew it, but the dream was so damn tangible, the thought of food caused his saliva glands to kick into gear and he decided to go along with wherever this vision would take him. “Mainly protein,” he answered. “My mother tried to get me to eat vegetation but I don’t really like it.”

Colonel Robbins let out a small laugh. “What about fruit?” he asked and produced a round red sphere out of the food compartment, handing it to André.

The sphere weighed a few ounces and he studied it, running his fingers over the smooth surface and rolling the stub of a stem through his fingers, twirling it until it broke from the center. A delectable scent drifted from the fruit and he brought it to his nose, inhaling the sweet perfume.

Again he was struck by the vivid sensations of this dream and his gaze drifted to the approaching planet. André looked at the fruit in his hand. An apple, according to the colonel’s thoughts, and he sank his teeth into the red flesh, relishing the tangy sweetness as juices bled into his mouth with the chunk he bit off, setting his hunger reflex into overdrive.

Here’s the part where I wake up.

But he didn’t. Instead he devoured the apple, down to the small hard nub on the bottom and licked the juice off his fingers. “Can I have another?”

Colonel Robbins nodded and smiled, handing André a second apple before returning his attention back to navigating the ship.

André stared out the window, splitting his attention between the apple and the approaching planet, still waiting for the dream to end when a new thought dawned on him. Maybe I’m already dead.

He didn’t have time to explore that further. The engines revved and the ship plummeted through the clouds, darting toward the deep blue mass of water. To their left lay a beige landmass that reminded André of the sand dunes on Zyclon.

“We’re flying

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