The Timeless chapter 14,
Hello readers, reviewers, and favoring people, Happy late thanks giving! Thanks to all my readers! And my wonderful reviewers! Please those who favorite my work over the past chapters please drop me a review sometime, I would LOVE to here what you all think. Thanks guys, I would put a happy face here, but over the download they somehow turn to Js. so without further ado The Timeless. Ok one more thing, I was asked if there would be pairings, there may be a few, but only mildly like what you have already seen, oh and no dude/dude pairings or girl/girl, sorry, just friendships… . Oh and I will try to make this chapter as long as it can be. 3 pages in writing program. And around 4 days to write it. Wow.
Querl sat in his corner of the dark room, he had tested the room for weak spots over and over again, and had only found one. The glass that separated him from his captors was to strong, and all the walls were solid, it was the door that was breakable. There was a crease where the door slid into the wall, where the light always pored in from. that's why escape was of such difficulty, if not for the light he would no longer be here but with his company, and the beasts would be feasting and harvesting from this new crop he had found.
Such a fine lot they were, its like they wanted him there, they had opened their doors to the dark and let it in, he wondered what it was that would come back out…
The door opened, but unlike before the light didn't come with the doors absence. No they had left it dark for the first time he could see down the hall, and who had opened the door.
The being stood in the door way, then moved to the side, arm pointed out into the hall as if to say 'you can go.'
Querl lifted himself from the corner and slowly inched his way to the open door.
The being that had opened the door, sat down slowly close to the wall, and set a small object there on the floor in front of him.
Querl came to the edge of the hall, where his sanctuary ended. Looking first at the one who had freed him, then at the object on the floor.
The object round and simple, seemed to carry with it a feeling, a memory, like that of something long forgotten suddenly recovered in its place, from what seemed like another life, from another time… from another world.
Querl stepped from his room at last, and carefully lifted the object from the floor. He looked again at that who had freed him, the person looked calm and still there on the floor, an object like the one he held placed there on the person's hand. What a strange custom he thought , looking over the ring of metal and the one he held. Miming what he had seen he slipped the ring onto the same finger the person at the door had, finding it fit perfectly.
Without a second thought he continued down the hall.
"it strange." said a voice, Querl turned around.
"what the dark dose to the people it doesn't destroy." it was the person at the door.
Querl was dumbfounded , the person spoke, not in the sounds of those in the light side, but those in the dark!
"the ring, it translates." the being explained.
"there is nothing to translate, the prey doesn't talk." Querl stared in disbelief.
"I would say beasts don't talk, but look at us now." the being smiled.
"imposable." Querl mumbled.
"would you like to know more?" asked the being standing up slowly.
"No, its only lies." Querl said simply, putting his hands in his pockets, and grinning slightly.
"if you find none of what I show you to be true, you can return to the dark, we wont stop you."
"What makes you think you can stop me?"
"We have ways, but I don't think we will need them. Your not like the beasts Querl, that much is more then obvious. you'll find what I have to show you interesting at least."
"and then I can leave?" Querl looked at the ring on his hand.
"and then, if you still want to, you can leave." the person at the door corrected.
"so be it." Querl glared.
"I'm Lyle by the way, believe it or not, not so long ago we were what you could call friends." Lyle smiled.
"What do you have to show me?" Querl asked not at all interested.
"This way please." Lyle walked past the Coluan leading him out of the chamber and down a long darkened hall cleared of the buildings occupants other then the few chosen to assist Lyle upon the likelihood of something taking a turn for the worst.
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Querl followed his captor into a new room. This one lit slightly by floating screens, arranged neatly in a circle in the middle of the room.
"what is this?" Querl asked his voice trembled slightly, it could have been the chill he now seemed to always feel, or maybe Lyle had struck a nerve.
"This is COMPUTO, the computer main frame you designed for us. It was one of the few pieces of our previous HQ that was unharmed. Almost all of our equipment was destroyed , probably due to energy pulses that bounced back from the black hole." Lyle explained.
"that or the metal they were made of was converted into a different substance in transport." Querl said almost to himself.
Lyle smiled.
"How about you take a look at it, its been running slow." Lyle told.
"What makes you think I'd know how?" Querls eyes finally looked away from the machine, as he looked his captor in the eyes.
"Because you always could before."
"I never said I couldn't."
"Then have at it." Lyle motioned the Coluan over to the devise.
For a long while Querl looked over the hollow grams that circled him, the screens seemed familiar, even the numbers that seemed only as lines began to make sense.
He began typing on one of the screens, and within a few downloads, and a couple of deleted files, the machine was purring like a cat.
"Surely someone else could have done that." Querl said, walking away from the machine.
"I never said we couldn't."
"Then what was the point?" Querl asked.
"To make sure you could." Lyle seemed pleased. "follow me that's not all I have to show you."
Querl did as he was told.
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Lyle led the green teen into a large open room.
"This is the simulation chamber." Lyle explained. "We want to show you some scenes."
"We?" Querl questioned.
Lyle laughed, "Your definitely the real thing…. Start it up Bounce!" Lyle called out to the window in the wall, getting a thumbs up back. The room came abuzz with energy the images beginning to manifest themselves, the scene none other then that of Colu. Its buildings slanted and modern, the lakes cool, but the sky cloudy with the gas and smoke used below in the pipe lines. Lyle had suddenly left Querl's company, Querl looked around franticly. This new place brought a long forgotten fear back to the surface, it was like returning to another reality.
Querl turned around in search for the door he had come through, it was gone.
He heard footsteps from behind him, he didn't dare turn around.