He reappeared a foot above the deck in a wide space filled with mingling people. He drifted gently to the ground, taking in the familiar vibrations of a large ship, the recycled air, the presence of so many people in one small bubble of life… He’d spent almost twenty years aboard an ark like this one, but there he’d known every voice that rang through his mind.
And all that had been before he had lain down to die…
He glanced around the room, but still, there was no presence that seemed identical to the voice that had spoken below. You have been Chosen. But he shouldn’t have been. That was Tony’s place now. And he could feel, like felt the absence of Physis and Seele and Keith, that Tony wasn’t here, wherever here was, which meant that something had gone horribly, horribly wrong.
“I need to speak with Stacy,” he said to the nearest cluster of people, and it surprised him how strong his own voice sounded. Only moments before, it had been almost impossible to speak, with a sword through his stomach and a deep wound to his shoulder; now that pain had vanished inexplicably, and he was refreshed, rested, awake.
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And all that had been before he had lain down to die…
He glanced around the room, but still, there was no presence that seemed identical to the voice that had spoken below. You have been Chosen. But he shouldn’t have been. That was Tony’s place now. And he could feel, like felt the absence of Physis and Seele and Keith, that Tony wasn’t here, wherever here was, which meant that something had gone horribly, horribly wrong.
“I need to speak with Stacy,” he said to the nearest cluster of people, and it surprised him how strong his own voice sounded. Only moments before, it had been almost impossible to speak, with a sword through his stomach and a deep wound to his shoulder; now that pain had vanished inexplicably, and he was refreshed, rested, awake.