AcQuest: A Space Opera Military Technothriller (The Quest Saga Science Fiction Adventure Series Book 3) Read Online Free Page B
Author: Dhayaa Anbajagane
them started yawning uncontrollably.
“I’m hitting the sack,” Taylor said. “Wake me up if anything happens.”
Q nodded back.
She looked at him for a second, realizing she had forgotten the actual reason she had come here. Honestly though, it didn't seem like she needed to do anything anyway. Q did seem worried, but Kai and Chris were definitely not the ones on his mind right now.
She fell face-first into the pillow and made herself comfortable.
Golems, huh , she thought.
It had been years since she had seen a single proper golem, and here Q said he had seen four. It would have been impossible for a single mage to create and control four of them. Controlling a golem became tougher the further away it was to the mage, so if this mage created four of them, it was highly likely it was from inside Aliea.
She shook her head in confused frustration. There were too many theories, and not much evidence to support any of them. She laid her head on the soft, snow-white pillow, her mind still trying to calm down as she lulled herself to sleep.
Things were going to get interesting.
***
Q sat down next to Elizabeth and stared out the window above her headrest. The view from this high up was beautiful. The stars shone as brightly as they did a few hours ago. For no reason at all, they reminded Q of Kai and Chris. He wondered when they would come back from Moon Base.
His mind wouldn’t let him be at peace until they came back safe and sound. He drifted further and further into thought until he dozed off.
Q had a very awkward dream that night. Hundreds of images flowed through his mind. They shifted rapidly, lasting for a second at most. He hardly had anytime to register an image before it changed into the next one. After several hundred images or so, the roulette finally stopped on a blank white picture.
He felt the pure white rectangle call out to him, pull him closer and closer. He didn’t try to resist it and allowed himself to be swept away by the invisible force. Once he entered the picture, everything around him went white, like he was in a jar of breathable milk.
“ Do not be alarmed, ” a voice boomed.
Q looked around, but all he could see was a solid whiteness.
“ Do not worry. I am not an enemy, ” the voice said, in a much softer tone.
“What do you want?” he yelled, hoping the voice, wherever it was coming from, heard him.
“ I’ve come to send you a warning. ”
“A warning?”
“ Would you wait?! I’m on a roll here, just let me finish my monologue. ”
“Sorry,” Q said. He’d never met a supernatural voice with a personality before.
“ The danger that you will confront is delicately dangling upon the derivative decorations of a demonic dynamo, who will not defer in detonating his dire defiance to destroy. ”
“What in world did you just say?” Q asked, seriously confused. What was that? A riddle? A tongue twister?
The voice gave no answer. The white background retracted into a tiny spot on a dark canvas. The newfound blackness covered Q completely, suffocating him. He slowly opened his eyes. A blurry faced popped into his sight.
“Boy, were you knocked out cold,” Taylor said. “And I thought I was the tired one.”
Q rubbed his eyes. “How’s Elizabeth?” he asked.
“Fit as a laser blaster,” squeaked a voice.
Elizabeth jumped over to Q and gave him a hug, “Thank you for everything,” she smiled at him. The color had returned to her face and her eyes shone with her regular mischievousness.
Taylor started saying something but Q wasn't paying attention. He was still trying to understand what the voice had told him. What could it have meant? Of course such a dream didn’t necessarily suggest anything, the operative word being necessarily.
Elizabeth knocked on Q’s head, “Aliea to Q,” she said.
Q threw his hands up, “All right, all right!” he said.
“We’d better get ready for school,” Taylor said, lifting Elizabeth by her collar. She
“I’m hitting the sack,” Taylor said. “Wake me up if anything happens.”
Q nodded back.
She looked at him for a second, realizing she had forgotten the actual reason she had come here. Honestly though, it didn't seem like she needed to do anything anyway. Q did seem worried, but Kai and Chris were definitely not the ones on his mind right now.
She fell face-first into the pillow and made herself comfortable.
Golems, huh , she thought.
It had been years since she had seen a single proper golem, and here Q said he had seen four. It would have been impossible for a single mage to create and control four of them. Controlling a golem became tougher the further away it was to the mage, so if this mage created four of them, it was highly likely it was from inside Aliea.
She shook her head in confused frustration. There were too many theories, and not much evidence to support any of them. She laid her head on the soft, snow-white pillow, her mind still trying to calm down as she lulled herself to sleep.
Things were going to get interesting.
***
Q sat down next to Elizabeth and stared out the window above her headrest. The view from this high up was beautiful. The stars shone as brightly as they did a few hours ago. For no reason at all, they reminded Q of Kai and Chris. He wondered when they would come back from Moon Base.
His mind wouldn’t let him be at peace until they came back safe and sound. He drifted further and further into thought until he dozed off.
Q had a very awkward dream that night. Hundreds of images flowed through his mind. They shifted rapidly, lasting for a second at most. He hardly had anytime to register an image before it changed into the next one. After several hundred images or so, the roulette finally stopped on a blank white picture.
He felt the pure white rectangle call out to him, pull him closer and closer. He didn’t try to resist it and allowed himself to be swept away by the invisible force. Once he entered the picture, everything around him went white, like he was in a jar of breathable milk.
“ Do not be alarmed, ” a voice boomed.
Q looked around, but all he could see was a solid whiteness.
“ Do not worry. I am not an enemy, ” the voice said, in a much softer tone.
“What do you want?” he yelled, hoping the voice, wherever it was coming from, heard him.
“ I’ve come to send you a warning. ”
“A warning?”
“ Would you wait?! I’m on a roll here, just let me finish my monologue. ”
“Sorry,” Q said. He’d never met a supernatural voice with a personality before.
“ The danger that you will confront is delicately dangling upon the derivative decorations of a demonic dynamo, who will not defer in detonating his dire defiance to destroy. ”
“What in world did you just say?” Q asked, seriously confused. What was that? A riddle? A tongue twister?
The voice gave no answer. The white background retracted into a tiny spot on a dark canvas. The newfound blackness covered Q completely, suffocating him. He slowly opened his eyes. A blurry faced popped into his sight.
“Boy, were you knocked out cold,” Taylor said. “And I thought I was the tired one.”
Q rubbed his eyes. “How’s Elizabeth?” he asked.
“Fit as a laser blaster,” squeaked a voice.
Elizabeth jumped over to Q and gave him a hug, “Thank you for everything,” she smiled at him. The color had returned to her face and her eyes shone with her regular mischievousness.
Taylor started saying something but Q wasn't paying attention. He was still trying to understand what the voice had told him. What could it have meant? Of course such a dream didn’t necessarily suggest anything, the operative word being necessarily.
Elizabeth knocked on Q’s head, “Aliea to Q,” she said.
Q threw his hands up, “All right, all right!” he said.
“We’d better get ready for school,” Taylor said, lifting Elizabeth by her collar. She
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