The rest of the evening and the parts of the night during which I did not sleep, I spent finishing the design for Technica, making lists of parts to purchase and even starting on the eventual assembly-plan. For the headsets, I went on...
2019-10-16 11:04:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Four shrubs. That was the entirety of vegetation that we had seen peeking out from the snow over the course of the last two days of travel. And calling them shrubs might be overrating them, more like brambles with pretensions of grand...
2019-10-14 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“So, what was this about?” I asked once the elevator-doors closed.
Sophia started pouting at the question, “What you don’t like it when I hug you? There needs to be something deeper going on? Maybe I just wanted to hug y...
2019-10-14 14:44:57 +0000 UTC View Post
After I finished my presentation for Technica, she once again invited me to dinner. At first, we talked about the designs I had shown her, which exact parts to use where, how to get them and even a few improvements I had not considere...
2019-10-13 19:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post
“Data-Management.” Galatea stated, her voice resolute and convinced. And I had to agree with her, it was the one ability that set me, us, apart from other beings, the ability to seamlessly integrate with a computer and coordinate ...
2019-10-12 16:21:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I tried to figure out something that I could take pride in, with the added objective that it had to be something not risking large-scale political conflict if revealed, until it was time to head to breakfast with Sophia. Both of us ke...
2019-10-12 08:48:55 +0000 UTC View Post
For the next few days, Scarlet and Keera continued the routine of the first days, travelling west along the brook, slowly making their way towards the far distant mountains. As they travelled, Scarlet focused on gently teaching Keera,...
2019-10-11 19:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Part of me wondered what future travellers, either with a capital T or without, using the ancient road would think. After spending some much needed time in the real world, I had returned to Mundus and spend some more time improving ou...
2019-10-11 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“So, what is really going on?” Tanisha asked me when I got back to my dorm-room, after dropping Sophia off.
“What do you mean?” I asked, just managing to suppress a yawn, it had been a long, emotionally exhausting day, t...
2019-10-11 00:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Soon, we had stashed Sophia’s stuff and met her two suitemates, Zahra and Josie. It turned out that Lenoa had played up the overdramatic theater-major when meeting us, simply for the fun of it. In normal interactions, she was more s...
2019-10-09 23:46:20 +0000 UTC View Post
“Wake up, sleepyhead.” I softly pressed a kiss to Sigmir’s forehead, causing her to mumble in her sleep. While she was incredibly adorable, I worried that the events of the night had caused lingering damage, as she was normally ...
2019-10-09 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Dealing with things at the post-office went smoothly and just a few minutes later, we exited with Sophia easily carrying a box sent to her by Glenna’s husband, containing what she had stored in her dorm room.
“What do you th...
2019-10-08 21:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The formalities in the hospital were handled faster than I had anticipated, normally, paperwork and bureaucracies have a habit of dragging things to the point of nausea but here, we were done within half an hour. Isleen and I were mos...
2019-10-07 19:27:11 +0000 UTC View Post
When I woke up in the morning, my body felt as if I had tried to block an avalanche, only to be buried by it. While there were no outward markings anywhere, I felt as if I had bruises on my bruises, or maybe as if I had run a few mara...
2019-10-07 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“That went well.” I mentally told Galatea, after leaving Doctor Sunters office.
My statement was only partially sarcastic in nature, I had managed to explain simple facts of my background to the Doctor, mostly thanks to the ...
2019-10-06 18:22:04 +0000 UTC View Post
With a deep breath, to quell those pesky nerves fluttering in my stomach, I knocked on the door in front of me. Doctor Sunters was working in the same complex Sophia was treated in and I was planning to visit her afterwards, for that,...
2019-10-05 00:58:37 +0000 UTC View Post
After Scarlet had prepared breakfast, she waited for Keera to keel over, surprised that it hadn’t already happened. But it gave her a minute or two to consider her actions in the future, how to behave to make the seed she had plante...
2019-10-04 17:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I woke up slowly, clawing my way back to consciousness. The first sensation assaulting me was pain. I felt as if someone had opened a construction-side, complete with jackhammers and heavy machinery in my head and now they were workin...
2019-10-04 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Things had gone back to normal over the past week. After the emotional release I went through in Sophia’s arms, we had talked until I was kicked from the hospital and the next day, I had talked with Technica about getting some profe...
2019-10-03 14:28:27 +0000 UTC View Post
We stayed up on the roof for some time, sharing little talk but, for the most part, enjoying the simple fact that we could be together without feeling a need to fill the silence with useless noise. To me, that was something I had miss...
2019-10-02 16:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post
After fighting with the Ankhegs, we quickly left the scene, not wanting to face more of the creatures. While they were not a big problem in a small group, as we had just faced, I had that creepy feeling that they were more like ants a...
2019-10-02 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We finished our rest, refreshed and warmed up, not quite looking forward to the next leg of our journey but it was also not looking as bleak as before. We had just left the igloo I had conjured up when I noticed the snow beneath us sh...
2019-09-30 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I let out a long-suffering sigh when I stepped into Technica’s bunker for the second time that day. When Tanisha and I had headed out for dinner yesterday evening, we had run into Karen and Ru Shi, with them tagging along. Both had ...
2019-09-29 11:21:15 +0000 UTC View Post
When I opened the door to my dorm-room, silence greeted me. Not a huge surprise, it was just late afternoon after all, so the others might still be in class. I was not quite certain about their schedules, especially as they changed qu...
2019-09-29 02:58:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It was strange how fast things can change in your mind. It had not been more than about forty hours that Galatea had awoken me with the news about Sophia’s kidnapping, but in those forty hours, I had worn my Powered clothes almost e...
2019-09-27 22:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostAN: By popular request, I'll try to write a chapter or two each week. Enjoy ;)
When Scarlet stalked off, quite obviously in a mood, Keera was left flabbergasted. Her diminutive companion had never talked much ...
2019-09-27 20:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Arriving at the border of the windswept steppe was a little strange. While I could see no reason for the sudden demarcation, it was certainly there. Within maybe a hundred meters, almost in a straight line, the pine-trees got smaller ...
2019-09-27 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sophia and I had managed to get our conversation back to lighter topics, mainly relating stories about our different roommates and people we had met at college. It came of little surprise to me that neither of us had managed to fully ...
2019-09-27 15:08:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I stood there, looking at Sophia like a fool. Despite the bandages, she looked good. Physically she had not changed all that much, that I had seen the day before, but now that she was no longer as exhausted has she had been, she looke...
2019-09-26 01:53:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I followed Technica into a small eatery, similar to the one we had been to before. Just like the previous one, this one seemed to focus on providing discrete service to high-level customers and I could easily imagine the ambassa...
2019-09-25 17:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post