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    Portal 2212 Part 3
    Portal 2212 Part 3
    Portal 2212 Part 3
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    Portal 2212 Part 3

    By Thadd Evans

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    Darius and his friends, occupants aboard an alien space ship, one these cloned humans landed on when they were infants, are headed for Iomin, the Wiisd’s home world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateOct 26, 2014
    ISBN9781487400538
    Portal 2212 Part 3

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      Portal 2212 Part 3 - Thadd Evans

      Chapter One

      I walked across a desert as a school of thirty-foot long magenta and iridescent blue fish, perhaps a vision, swam past me. More glided by. I stuck my hand out—it went inside a fish. Much to my surprise, all of them became transparent and disappeared. This was a dream, a realistic event.

      It started raining. Not far away, in the darkness, an unknown Aulew man glanced at me. Suddenly, the rain and the Aulew crumbled.

      Now I was at the top of a snow-covered mountain. I continued on, then paused near the edge of a cliff. Above me, clouds broke apart. To my left, several feet beyond a boulder, a hundred and eighty-foot diameter disk shaped ship, an alien white vessel without any windows or hatches, a craft that didn’t resemble IN5, touched down. The peak and ship dissipated.

      Instantaneously, I was inside a room. Outside a window, a dust storm moved across a desert. The window vanished.

      Far away, a bird flew over a mountain. Within seconds, both exploded like fireworks—the pieces morphed, becoming pink sunflowers. Much to my surprise, they enlarged until each flower was forty feet high. They faded. A sandstorm swept across a desert, toward many stovepipe cacti. All the cacti moved away from me. Soon they got bigger until they were six thousand feet high. When they were several hundred yards farther away, they changed into different shapes, hazy skyscrapers. All around them, a desert went out of focus.

      The skyscrapers and desert disappeared—were replaced by several six-foot tall orange humanoids, all of their faces cast in shadows. I looked closer, noticing they didn’t have any eyes, just empty eye sockets. Without warning, the alien’s deep-set eye sockets, a charcoal gray, changed into a different color, indigo. As I watched in amazement, their bodies began morphing, turning into humanoid shapes covered by small oval facets. Soon the beings, entities surrounded by fog, lightened until they blended in with the background.

      Chapter Two

      I climbed out of my chamber and hugged Yia. We took off our clothes and I noticed that from the chest down, most of the pigment had fallen off her transparent skin, revealing cables, artificial gray muscles, cloned internal organs, and a blue gray skeleton.

      Yia scowled. While I was in my chamber, a lot of the paint fell off. Does my body repulse you?

      No.

      She smiled and we lay side by side, facing each other.

      Yia touched my cheek. I never had any parents. Do you know anything about them?

      I told her a little about myself.

      Yia remained silent, a curious expression on her face.

      According to many Laiplen files, parents provide guidance and love. My friends, including the departed ones, did that. Would you like being a father?

      As long as we’re living in a safe place, yes.

      Although none of the Aulew have ever had any children, I’m looking forward to being a mom. I’d like to name our daughter Aaya. I would teach her about the stars, including Alpha Centauri A and the galaxy. Small tentacles came out of her wrist and began stroking my hand, something they had done many times before. Sometimes I wish you had tentacles that would stroke my body.

      I kissed her breast.

      That felt good. A sweet smelling mist resembling cinnamon came out of her neck. When I was younger, in my teens, I met one of my creator’s daughters, Naama, a friendly girl who showed me all of her dolls. She named one of them Oona. Thinking about Naama comforts me. Hopefully, our daughter will be like her, curious, cheerful, caring.

      I nodded and imagined a pretty girl in a pink dress, a young lady with a big smile.

      Yia grinned. I love touching your skin. It has a nice texture. I wish mine didn’t feel like plastic.

      I love you.

      You’re my Omon. It’s an Aulew word that means my empathetic lover.

      I told her about my visions, images I had seen eight months ago.

      She opened her mouth, astonished. Do you know what they mean?

      They might be messages from the Wiisd. However, it’s possible they’re just random dreams, a way for my mind to cope.

      I know very little about the Woys.

      Although I was shocked that Yia’s mind hadn’t absorbed the Wiisd icons as much as I mine had, I didn’t complain about it because it might take years for her to understand them. Study them as much as you can.

      She grinned. I’m looking forward to it.

      Chapter Three

      I woke up. The chamber lid opened. I got out.

      Onen raised one hand, about to make a point. I hate to tell you this, but several months ago, Yia died of a heart attack. Her body couldn’t adapt.

      Tears rolled down my face. Can you tell me anymore?

      Because her arteries and veins were stiff, blood, a turbulent fluid, didn’t circulate properly. Wiisd programming couldn’t overcome the problem.

      I walked, trying to calm down.

      Mind if I join you?

      Go right ahead. I imagined a pretty girl, a child who resembled Yia, examining a flower. The girl peeked at me and giggled. Wanting to forget about her, I looked out the window. Far away, stars kept pulsating.

      Onen glanced over his shoulder at me. Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?

      Let’s keep going for a while. Then I’ll return to my chamber.

      He nodded.

      I loved Yia with all my heart. Getting over her is going to be tough. I don’t know if I can do it.

      Understood.

      I assumed that the Wiisd always knew what they were doing. I was wrong.

      Chapter Four

      I woke up as my chamber lid opened. This was not a dream. I climbed out of the chamber, the first to do so. In nearby chairs, Tress and Onen remained silent, recharging.

      In my mind’s eye, a pink humanoid face with huge dimly lit eye sockets appeared and vanished. Feeling that someone wanted to speak to me, I left IN5, walking slowly, then picked up sand, and threw it away. This desert, an unknown location on Iomin, was real. In the near distance, a dust devil moved across dry grass. Far above me, in the bright blue sky, a tiny bird flapped harder. I continued on and went by tiny rocks.

      About one hundred yards beyond a boulder, a bronze sphere flew toward me, and landed. On the port side of the thirty-foot diameter obloid ship, a tiny hole, a hatch, enlarged. A six-foot tall male humanoid, an alien with ivory skin, a being whose head was slightly narrower than any human when viewed from the front, stepped out.

      The humanoid aimed the palm of his hand toward me. "Darius, I am Notim, your guide. I am a member of the Qyo race, not a Wiisd. You’ve received visions from Yairaad, a member of the Wiisd race. But you can’t see him in the vision. He is eighty miles from here. His mind is strong. If he comes any closer to us, you may not sleep for thirty days. If you left now, you wouldn’t sleep for five days, but you would survive.

      "Someday your mind might be ready. At that time, if Yairaad meets you face to face, you could probably sleep

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