Here we go again. I groaned to myself as I approached the blasted
alarm. Another freaking' day as one of Uncle Sam's finest. If only I had
known how different it was going to turn out.
After another day of walking on egg shells and dodging heat rounds, I was looking forward to going home, taking a Tylenol, and soaking in a hot bath. The major plus was that the kids had been sent to mom and dad's the previous weekend and I had the apartment all to myself. It made everything really quite as I sunk into the heated water with my copy of 'Destiny's Way'.
Unfortunately, part way through the bath the lights went out. That was nothing new. The ice storms that had been blowing through recently. I got out and retrieved my grill lighter and finished my bath in the flickering light granted by the emergency candles.
After dressing for bed, I had my first bout with dizziness. I was in the door to my room so I steadied myself on the frame and waited for it to pass. Then I did my nightly checks. Collection...check. wallet...check. Sanity...check. Reality check, yes I did one every night . Mainly because I had so many idea's running rampant in my head that I often would slip into daydreams that were so much better than reality that I would rather stay in the dream than return to reality. Many involved Star Trek or Star Wars, ask me about the Star Trek one, I may tell you sometime.
I reached over a tapped off the light. The next thing I knew it felt like I was falling. I cracked my eyes slightly and noticed some dark silhouettes above me. They were rather small and some looked rather hard. So I closed my eyes and hoped that the place I landed would be soft.
Well my luck held true to it's ever non-existent self. Not only was the landing zone hard, so was the landing. I can remember my tailbone cracking against the floor to make a gong like noise. My head followed where that led. That caused me to black out as the entirety of my collection plopped down on top of me.
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The next time I woke up I was in a chamber that resembled a patients worst nightmare. White...wall to wall white. a quick survey of the proved me correct. It was a medical suite. The Machinery in here was enough to make me start to think I had gone crazy. My bed was one of those that were fully equipped to monitor vitals, In one corner there was a tank of translucent green liquid. My eyes widened at this as I absently picked up a sharp implement from one of the tables and secreted it away in my sleeve.
Unless I miss my guess...I tried to exit the suite but the doors wouldn't budge and inch. they also had been connected to some sort of alarm. No sooner than I had sat back down on the bed than the doors swooshed open and my uneasiness had been confirmed. I sucked in a breath and rose to my feet. Then I executed a bow that I had learned in Karate, though it was a lot more shaky now from my nerves, "Masters Solusar."
Kam looked a bit startled at my statement. Tionne must of suspected something though for she never even blinked at it. "What's this?" she asked immediately.
I smiled slightly. This was going to be good. "My diary." In the back of my mind, I was acting like a little kid, jumping up and down and clapping at the three shades of red her face turned. Outwardly the only hint they had at my amusement was my smile.
To her credit, she recovered quickly. "Then why can I read only two of the passages?"
"Simple, those entries were written in basic so no one else could read them. May I?" I asked indicating the book in her hand. She handed it to me. The green velvet cover felt good in my hands. I shuffled through the pages stopping at the basic entries. Then, against my better judgment, I closed the book entirely and opened the back cover only.
The look in her eyes told me that she hadn't looked through the whole book. I didn't think that she had either, for right there was a copy of the entire basic alphabet and the equivalent letters. If she had taken her time she would have been happily translating the whole collection.
After another day of walking on egg shells and dodging heat rounds, I was looking forward to going home, taking a Tylenol, and soaking in a hot bath. The major plus was that the kids had been sent to mom and dad's the previous weekend and I had the apartment all to myself. It made everything really quite as I sunk into the heated water with my copy of 'Destiny's Way'.
Unfortunately, part way through the bath the lights went out. That was nothing new. The ice storms that had been blowing through recently. I got out and retrieved my grill lighter and finished my bath in the flickering light granted by the emergency candles.
After dressing for bed, I had my first bout with dizziness. I was in the door to my room so I steadied myself on the frame and waited for it to pass. Then I did my nightly checks. Collection...check. wallet...check. Sanity...check. Reality check, yes I did one every night . Mainly because I had so many idea's running rampant in my head that I often would slip into daydreams that were so much better than reality that I would rather stay in the dream than return to reality. Many involved Star Trek or Star Wars, ask me about the Star Trek one, I may tell you sometime.
I reached over a tapped off the light. The next thing I knew it felt like I was falling. I cracked my eyes slightly and noticed some dark silhouettes above me. They were rather small and some looked rather hard. So I closed my eyes and hoped that the place I landed would be soft.
Well my luck held true to it's ever non-existent self. Not only was the landing zone hard, so was the landing. I can remember my tailbone cracking against the floor to make a gong like noise. My head followed where that led. That caused me to black out as the entirety of my collection plopped down on top of me.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The next time I woke up I was in a chamber that resembled a patients worst nightmare. White...wall to wall white. a quick survey of the proved me correct. It was a medical suite. The Machinery in here was enough to make me start to think I had gone crazy. My bed was one of those that were fully equipped to monitor vitals, In one corner there was a tank of translucent green liquid. My eyes widened at this as I absently picked up a sharp implement from one of the tables and secreted it away in my sleeve.
Unless I miss my guess...I tried to exit the suite but the doors wouldn't budge and inch. they also had been connected to some sort of alarm. No sooner than I had sat back down on the bed than the doors swooshed open and my uneasiness had been confirmed. I sucked in a breath and rose to my feet. Then I executed a bow that I had learned in Karate, though it was a lot more shaky now from my nerves, "Masters Solusar."
Kam looked a bit startled at my statement. Tionne must of suspected something though for she never even blinked at it. "What's this?" she asked immediately.
I smiled slightly. This was going to be good. "My diary." In the back of my mind, I was acting like a little kid, jumping up and down and clapping at the three shades of red her face turned. Outwardly the only hint they had at my amusement was my smile.
To her credit, she recovered quickly. "Then why can I read only two of the passages?"
"Simple, those entries were written in basic so no one else could read them. May I?" I asked indicating the book in her hand. She handed it to me. The green velvet cover felt good in my hands. I shuffled through the pages stopping at the basic entries. Then, against my better judgment, I closed the book entirely and opened the back cover only.
The look in her eyes told me that she hadn't looked through the whole book. I didn't think that she had either, for right there was a copy of the entire basic alphabet and the equivalent letters. If she had taken her time she would have been happily translating the whole collection.