Shadows of the Past, Reflections of the Future Part 2

Posted on 22 Apr 2014 @ 5:13pm by Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim

444 words; about a 2 minute read

Allyndra was restless, she was glad to be on ship again but already her body was yearning for the feel of wind and wave, sun and rain. It was always that way and she decided that she would read a little.

She pulled open a drawer and pulled out a book. A real book, paper and bindings and all that she had slipped out from one of the archives from her trip home.

For some reason she decided she would read it aloud and record it into her personal log.

"Computer open Log title it...." She peered at the title but then decided that perhaps something different.
"Shadows of the Past, Reflections of the Future"

[Recording]

"This will be slow reading, for as I open the volume it is obviously in old Akkadian. I narrated some of this before so let me catch up.

"Ah let me start here,

"Herbert old chap, most likely a meteor or perhaps Her Majesty's artillerymen are testing some new shell."

That is when a groan issued from the object and as he watched a section of dirt fell away revealing a door and what appeared to be a person.

The person staggered a bit more and then collapsed. Herbert came out of his stunned amazement and was galvanized into action. He sprinted forward in spite of the heat of the object. The person that had issued forth lay face down but even through the outline of the odd clothing it was obvious that it presented a female form.

Loud snaps and cracklings began to get louder and object if anything seemed to glow even more than when it first came to rest.

Herbert dragged the person away puzzled as to what this was all about when the object from which it, no she, he thought, suddenly seemed to glow even brighter and then dissipated like the dew of morning into a summer's sunrise.

Herbert stood there for many minutes before his senses reminded him that there was a woman that had come from the object.

"Miss, miss," he gently shook her and only a small groan issued forth. He would have to find a doctor for the woman and bent to pick her up.

He was stunned as he did so. For though slim figured, she was tall for a woman but she was incredibly light for her size.

He took her back to his bicycle he had left by the side of the road and with much work managed to set off again with her cradling between the handle bars and her head resting back on his shoulder.

Allyndra yawned. "Computer stop and file log"

[Log filed]

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