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2024-10-29 19:42:56Luck was with them as they slipped through the door and scurried across the wide, well-lit corridor and into the shadows. There was no sign of life, but they dared not speak. Drawing from her experience as a prisoner in the past, Kendra behaved as she had while escaping from the alien camp on the surface and slipped from shadow to shadow as silently as possible.
Once again, Olga telepathically spoke to Kendra. “These bastards speak a crazy language, but I managed to decipher the location of Eugene. Look for a door with two ‘X’s’, an upside down ‘V’ and an ‘O’ on it in the west wing. That’s where he is. Hurry, they’re preparing to send a search party out for our bodies.”
Feeling the pressure of the urgency, Kendra motioned for Pete and Felix to follow her as she turned a corner and began surveying the writing on the doors. They were already in the west wing, but she saw nothi
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Kendra was in a state of both confusion and amazement as she slipped through the narrow opening between two large boulders that rested with majestic fortitude against the base of the mountain after years of environmental strife and saw the maze of tunnels before her. Over the years, Ari had explored and searched the entrance to inner earth and discovered what she called a back door to the tunnels. Through this entrance, the odds of encountering a guard were next to nothing.As she pulled her slender body through the gap between the boulders, Kendra’s chocolate brown eyes grew wide at the sight that awaited her. Small, dim lights illuminated the interior just enough to offset the cave’s natural darkness. While her eyes shifted from the light that was provided by the brilliance of a full moon while enroute took a bit of time, she was eventually able to comfortably see her surroundings. There were shuttle rails that spread out and wove around corners like
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Although shocked by her statement, no one felt inclined to ask Olga to elaborate about what she meant when she said that she’d looked into the eyes of a dead man for a considerable period of time. They were hesitant to learn the truth about why a dead man would contact her.It was Ari who finally spoke up.“So, are you saying that if we keep going in this direction we are going to our death?” she hesitantly asked. “Should we turn around and go back?”“We’ve been walking this way for hours,” Felix said with desperation. “Rex said that it’s starting to lighten up. I was hoping we’d soon be at the end of this darkness. Now, you want to turn back into it again?”“We can’t go back,” Olga muttered. “He said to come forward. We’re almost there.”“Where?” Kendra asked with concern. “We’re almost where?”
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“I don’t believe your friend is actually dead,” Rex said into the darkness.“How can that be?” Olga gasped.“My connection wasn’t really all that clear,” he admitted, “but, I got the distinct impression that he was alive and not a spirit.”“Do you think he was using telepathy too, then?” Ari asked.Rex nodded. Then, realizing that no one could see his nod, he followed with, “Yes.”“What makes you think that?” Felix asked as he stepped closer toward where he thought Rex to be.“It’s more of a gut feeling, than anything else,” Rex said. “I could be wrong since I’m not used to communicating like that, but I got the feeling that he was struggling to connect with me like a human would and not a spirit.”“I’m no expert on the dead,” Kendra said, “but I can’t
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Kendra, Rex, Felix, and Ari stayed a good distance behind Olga and Arthur to allow them as much privacy as possible under the circumstances. Kendra smiled as she watched Olga slip her hand through the crook of her long lost lover’s arm as he led them out of the tunnel and through the cave. She thought the cave to be much smaller than the one that they passed through to begin their journey. It was much brighter and had a nicer, friendlier feel to it. She was surprised when Rex voiced just that.“That’s a funny thing to say,” Ari said with a tone that sounded hurt, or possibly even defensive.“No one is trying to insult you,” Felix hurriedly assured her. “Anyway, that place isn’t you. It’s a village filled with people and rules that don’t jive with us. Since that cave held the entry to their lands, it isn’t a surprise that we’d g
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They found Arthur’s little cottage to be well built and cozy with all of the basic amenities needed to live a fairly comfortable life. The amenity that they most appreciated at that moment was the bathroom.Olga was the first to shower and change into the clean clothes that she’d stuffed into her backpack. After which, she joined Arthur in the kitchen to help create a much needed, hearty meal for the group that had lived on jerky and biscuits for several days.Once she was familiar with his kitchen, Olga suggested that she cook while her long lost lover took a little time to get to know her family. He smiled, knowingly, and eagerly agreed.Since the little cottage had an open floor plan, Olga was able to watch their interaction even if she wasn’t always able to catch what was being said. She even joined in on a few topics now and then.Not being one to talk around a subject, Kendra -who was second to s
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Dinner talk was a continuation of questions that would help them understand where they were and what to expect while there. Arthur expressed his desire for them to stay in Hopeville with him, but Kendra and Rex were non-committal. As was Ari. Felix and Olga, on the other hand, were eager to settle in.Since they could come up with no other reason not to stay in Arthur’s village than the fact that they were eager to continue on to retrieve -and possibly rescue- Eugene from Center Land, they stayed silent and remained amiable while Olga and Felix peppered their host with questions about life there.When it came time to call it a night, they didn’t know if they were exhausted from their ordeal of trekking through the pitch black tunnel or from pummeling Arthur with a barrage of questions. Since Arthur’s home provided only one bedroom and a pull out sofa in his little office, Kendra and Rex insisted that the newlyweds t
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Olga stretched in a cat-like manner as she watched her long lost lover’s lean physique stride from the bed to the dresser.“You aren’t leaving this bed, are you?” she cooed as she shifted her slender body onto its side. A teasing glint appeared in her eyes. “Are you seriously going to tell me that’s all you have to offer?”Arthur turned and gave her a sly, sensual smirk. His faded blue eyes twinkled with amusement as they took in every inch of her naked loveliness. It may have been close to two decades since he’d enjoyed her sweetness between the sheets, but she’d not changed one bit. Her breasts were still large and firm enough to hold steady against gravity’s constant tugging. Although she was noticeably thinner than before the war, her lean hips were still smooth and curvy; just as he’d remembered them. Considering the hardships that she’d endured -along with the rest of mankind- her
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The trio cautiously made their way to the south wall of the settlement in hopes of encountering fewer zombies. They had no choice but to cross a small clearing, but managed to escape notice from the guards patrolling the walls. Fortunately, the zombies that they were forced to battle were ones that had regressed to a manageable state of brain dead and were fairly easy to eliminate.Once they’d reached the wall, Pete looked for signs of a possible entry, but could find none. Although she wasn’t as certain about what to look for, Kendra also searched the exterior of the settlement with her eyes, but saw nothing as well.“We might be too close,” Pete mused. “After all, it would be an escape tunnel.”“Where would it come out, then?” Kendra asked with angst. This was a new situation for both of them. She couldn’t be upset with Pete or Felix for not thinking about that before they’d ri
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Kendra was concerned.Rex was in trance for what she deemed an excessive length of time. What could he possibly be seeing that would take him so long? She was seriously considering joining him in trance to find out, but, then, thought better of it.Moving close to her aunt she whispered, “Do you think that one of us should go into trance to see what’s happening? He might need to be pulled back.”Olga knit her brows together. She’d been thinking the very same thing. It had never happened to her, but she’d heard about visionaries getting stuck in a vision and needing assistance coming back. It was a rare occurrence, but it did happen.She grabbed her niece’s hand and held it to her heart. “It must be me who goes in to see what’s up. If he’s stuck, you aren’t adept enough to bring him back.”She knew that her aunt spoke the truth, but the realit
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Arthur insisted that Olga, Kendra, Rex, Felix, and Pete make haste on their very important mission. Promising to tend to Ari as best he could, he waited until they were well out of sight before turning to Alice.With a frown on his face, he asked with concern, “What do you think, Alice? Do you think she’ll even make it to Hope?”The severe wrinkles on her face made it almost difficult to tell that the young woman’s brows were knit together as she looked down at Ari. “She’s in pretty bad shape. I thought that they were saving her life. It looks more like they were keeping her alive for some reason that didn’t require good health.”Arthur shuddered. “They were a deceiving bunch, wouldn’t you say? All that talk about peace and caring for mankind. I wonder why they really kicked out those rogues. From what I could see, they weren’t any worse than t
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As agreed between Olga and Rex, they informed Kendra of their plans, but nothing was said to the others about them. The main reason was that it was unclear if they’d be successful and, since Alice and Pete weren’t behaving as cooperatively as they’d hoped, they didn’t want anyone doing or saying something to make things go awry.As she’d predicted, Olga replaced the batch of virus that was taken from her with a fresh supply while the guards overseeing her assumed that she was working on the antidote. She cautiously slipped several vials into her lab coat pocket before announcing that it was nearing lunch time and she was excessively hungry to the point that it was interfering with her work. She wanted to be returned to her cell so that she didn’t miss the lunch meal.Since she was required to change clothes before leaving the lab, she slipped behind the screen they’d provided to appease her modesty under the g
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Kendra sucked in air as a vision of Queen Isabo appeared before her. The amazon queen was standing amongst a small group of aliens. It was Kendra’s first view of the aliens occupying inner earth. They looked exactly like the ones on the surface. She shuddered with repulsion as the memories of her time as their prisoner fluttered through her mind.Pushing the unsettling thoughts away as best as she could, she focused on the conversation that was taking place between the amazon queen and the alien who was clearly of status. They were speaking a language that was foreign to Kendra, but their tones and facial expressions led her to believe that their interaction was friendly.Her heart raced wildly with remembrance and trepidation as the rogue amazon leader, Minerva, walked up to them. Kendra recognized most of the rogues following her from her time in their camp. They stood a short distance away from their leader as they wai
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By the time Arthur and Alice were thrust into the cell, the group had come up with a solution for their lack of privacy that gave them some semblance of comfort while taking care of personal needs. The women had seriously considered pointing out their dilemma and asking to be moved to a separate cell, but, then, thought better of it. Staying together would allow them the chance to put their wits to work as a unified group and come up with a means of escape. So, when nature called, they swallowed their pride and braced themselves to endure the humiliation as they made the announcement of their body’s need so that the others could stand with their backs turned toward the individual until the person announced that all was clear.The lack of consideration for their comfort and modesty made Kendra equate the amazons to aliens on the surface who treated humans like they were no better than animals.Several hours passed before Olga was yanked from the
