port there,” I said, turning back to the beautiful ball beside us, “We have a large portion of sterile land near the Gosslin Mountains that my mother was considering for housing. She had said there was enough room for a thousand families to live.”
I could actually see Legacy moving slowly beneath us. I thought I was imagining it at first, but as I stared at the left side, I could see landforms slowly moving into view while portion of the right side slowly disappeared.
“ You both are exceptionally generous,” the captain stated, “I hope you won’t begrudge me for this, but my medical staff is already insisting on seeing you.”
The door opened and two pale women entered the room. They were smiling as though they’d already been introduced to us.
“ How do you speak to these people without us knowing?” I asked the captain.
“ I have something of a… well, imagine a window that no one else can see. It appears in front of my vision anytime I choose. I can make selections from this ‘window’ to answer questions, send messages, or to pretty much keep updated on everything that’s going on,” he replied, “It’s so common to my people that I sometimes forget that you and Braxton have no idea what I’m doing.”
It still didn’t make any sense to me, so I just nodded as I often did. I took one more look out the window, then glanced over at Braxton to see if he had anything more to add. Braxton and I then followed the two women out of the room.
. . .
Their tests were quite non-invasive, just as the captain had promised. They swiped the insides of our mouths with a stick, poked our fingers and took a couple drops of our blood, then peeked into our eyes, ears, and mouths. After that, Braxton and I were left alone in a small room to ponder the future of Legacy.
“ My cousin owns Tyler Coal,” Braxton said apropos of nothing as he fiddled with his Mystic glove, “I think half his coal is traded for your family’s sugar.”
I figure he was looking for some form of common ground between us and I was grateful for it. Nothing had been comfortable between us and it was made even worse by my conscious effort to avoid his eyes. I knew if I looked too long into those black pools, I’d probably drown in them.
“ Yeah, I’ve heard of them,” I replied, “For the record, I don’t have a low opinion of you or the people from Blaze. I mean, look at me – I’m the girl who wastes all her mother’s fortune on star-listening.”
He snickered, then held his gloved hand out to me.
“ We’re all freaks in some way. Don’t worry about what I think,” he replied.
The door opened before I even had a chance to respond. The captain stood there smiling at both of us. Then after a moment, he came in and closed the door.
“ We’re definitely related,” the captain said, “There’s no doubt that you are both the descendants of a colony we established here a long time ago. Oddly however, Braxton is either a product of a thing we like to call gene therapy or maybe his DNA was somehow mixed with another.”
“ What’s that supposed to mean?” Braxton asked.
The captain took a seat, then clasped his hands together in front of him. He nodded subtly, then looked up at Braxton.
“ When we want to change something in future generations, we take the genes of a person – the hidden information inside our cells…” the captain began, then shook his head, “I know this won’t make any sense, but we improve our future generations. We used to have something called cancer that killed off millions of people, but then we removed the possibility of that from happening to future generations by gene therapy.”
“ So someone messed with Braxton’s ancestors so he would have to deal with this electrical problem?” I asked.
“ As best as we can tell, someone many generations back probably knew something of modern day science.
I could actually see Legacy moving slowly beneath us. I thought I was imagining it at first, but as I stared at the left side, I could see landforms slowly moving into view while portion of the right side slowly disappeared.
“ You both are exceptionally generous,” the captain stated, “I hope you won’t begrudge me for this, but my medical staff is already insisting on seeing you.”
The door opened and two pale women entered the room. They were smiling as though they’d already been introduced to us.
“ How do you speak to these people without us knowing?” I asked the captain.
“ I have something of a… well, imagine a window that no one else can see. It appears in front of my vision anytime I choose. I can make selections from this ‘window’ to answer questions, send messages, or to pretty much keep updated on everything that’s going on,” he replied, “It’s so common to my people that I sometimes forget that you and Braxton have no idea what I’m doing.”
It still didn’t make any sense to me, so I just nodded as I often did. I took one more look out the window, then glanced over at Braxton to see if he had anything more to add. Braxton and I then followed the two women out of the room.
. . .
Their tests were quite non-invasive, just as the captain had promised. They swiped the insides of our mouths with a stick, poked our fingers and took a couple drops of our blood, then peeked into our eyes, ears, and mouths. After that, Braxton and I were left alone in a small room to ponder the future of Legacy.
“ My cousin owns Tyler Coal,” Braxton said apropos of nothing as he fiddled with his Mystic glove, “I think half his coal is traded for your family’s sugar.”
I figure he was looking for some form of common ground between us and I was grateful for it. Nothing had been comfortable between us and it was made even worse by my conscious effort to avoid his eyes. I knew if I looked too long into those black pools, I’d probably drown in them.
“ Yeah, I’ve heard of them,” I replied, “For the record, I don’t have a low opinion of you or the people from Blaze. I mean, look at me – I’m the girl who wastes all her mother’s fortune on star-listening.”
He snickered, then held his gloved hand out to me.
“ We’re all freaks in some way. Don’t worry about what I think,” he replied.
The door opened before I even had a chance to respond. The captain stood there smiling at both of us. Then after a moment, he came in and closed the door.
“ We’re definitely related,” the captain said, “There’s no doubt that you are both the descendants of a colony we established here a long time ago. Oddly however, Braxton is either a product of a thing we like to call gene therapy or maybe his DNA was somehow mixed with another.”
“ What’s that supposed to mean?” Braxton asked.
The captain took a seat, then clasped his hands together in front of him. He nodded subtly, then looked up at Braxton.
“ When we want to change something in future generations, we take the genes of a person – the hidden information inside our cells…” the captain began, then shook his head, “I know this won’t make any sense, but we improve our future generations. We used to have something called cancer that killed off millions of people, but then we removed the possibility of that from happening to future generations by gene therapy.”
“ So someone messed with Braxton’s ancestors so he would have to deal with this electrical problem?” I asked.
“ As best as we can tell, someone many generations back probably knew something of modern day science.
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