Apparently R is for Rivi today, because the young lady won't vacate my head and is BEGGING me to get to work on the second part of her story.
Chill! Lets get the first one taken care of first!
(Ps- for those of you who are in the Concord NC area and are coming to ConCarolinas at the end of May... I have been told by PDMI Publishing that The Alien Mind (the first book) is right on track for me to be able to bring copies with me. I am so excited! It looks awesome so far!)
In the meantime I'd like to give you a peek of what is going into the second book... Ps- As I am still in the rough draft stage, this scene may or may not stay, I have not decided yet.
Rivi
opened her eyes and placed a hand on the edge of the patient's cot to
steady herself. The world around her seemed to be spinning, with her
at its center. Feeling slightly nauseated, she shook her groggy head
and the world soon steadied itself. She looked up across the cot and
the patient lying there to discover that there were five healers of
different species looking at her in shock.
Rivi
frowned and looked up at Dan who was also coming to. He watched
absently as the Gront patient laying on the cot in front of him
slowly awoke. The blisters and boils on his face slowly disappeared,
and the Gront sat up as if nothing were wrong.
Dan continued staring
blankly at the cot.
“How
do you feel?” one of the Aunantet healers asked.
“I
feel fine. Thanks! The Gront replied as he jumped off the cot and ran
out of the tent.
“Dan?”
Rivi queried, still watching him.
Dan
blinked his eyes and turned to look at her. A smile spread across his
face.
“Huh?
Oh, I'm fine. I'd best get back to work,” He replied with a laugh.
“Go
ahead, you! Just don't scare me like that again,” Rivi exclaimed,
laughing, pushing him playfully on the shoulder.
She
shook her head as he laughed. Still feeling a bit dazed, she walked
out of the healers’ tent and stumbled over the blackened ground of
the Gront's home world. A cloudy sky cast dark shadows over
everything. Rivi found a short rock wall nearby and sat down, trying
to figure out what just happened. Rivi looked up and saw the comp
amalgamator from the desk coming over to her.
“Hey,
how are you feeling?”
“I'm
feeling … confused. Your name is Etok, right,” Rivi stated,
querying the Aunantet's personal computer, discovering also that Etok
was only a year older than she was.
“Yeah.
How did you do … Whatever you did in there?” Etok asked, looking
at Rivi questioningly.
“I
don't know. I'm not a healer, so I didn't think I'd be able to help
much in the first place. I just thought I'd go and at least stand
with him. It just seemed like to right thing for me to do, as his
friend, but then—I don't know—it just happened. I was able to
help him just like he was able to help me with a computer virus a few
years ago.”
“Rivinaig,
things like that don't ‘just happen,’” Etok protested. “Comp
amalgamators can't join with healers and certainly not in the middle
of a healing. Furthermore, it is very rare for a healer to be able to
join with a comp amalgamator while they are working with their
computer, much less enter the amalgamator's mind to help them with a
computer virus.”
“Look,
I can't explain it,” Rivi admitted, looking up at Etok. “I just
know what happened.”
“The
two of you must be pretty close friends to be able to help each other
like that,” Etok said as she sat down beside Rivi.
“We've
been friends for about three years. We've gone through a lot
together. Something like this is nothing compared to the Aruk.”
Today's post was also inspired by the letter R. R is for: Rivi as part of the Blogging from A to Z April 2015 challenge! Click on the letter to join on in the fun!
Every day (excluding sundays) I will be writing a post about something that begins with the letter for that day. Most of the time you will find a sci-fi flash fiction piece here.
For Readers: I know this isn't exactly flash fiction... yesterday and today were really busy days for me so I had to find substitutes. I am hoping to have some more breathing time tomorrow. Only 8 days left to the challenge!
Would you like to give me a random S word (I'll pick one per person) to add into tomorrow's story?
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