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Authors: Marie Hall
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The fear and pain of killing her nanny dulled down to a quiet whisper. The hurt of having parents who didn’t care. The humiliation of being told repeatedly she was crazy, of having leeching, groping paws touching her and making her feel like she was nothing. A gentle flicker, like a soft lilting hum, infused her limbs.
“From now on, if you’re ever in danger or in pain fly back here. I’ve shown you where it’s at and you carry within you the instinct of your phoenix. She’ll always know how to find her way back. Follow the ley lines; you’ll be able to move between realms that way.”
She looked around. “But where is here and what in the world are ley lines? And did you just say realms?”
His smile was indulgent as he said, “Ley lines are invisible threads of energy that bisect our atmosphere, sort of like a giant tic tac toe. The lines are the bridge between our lands and that of the humans.”
“Our lands and humans. What?” She scrunched her nose. “You’re really making me feel stupid here. I don’t like that.”
He grinned, rubbing the back of his neck. “Here’s where this conversation gets mind numbing and scientific, so sorry if I confuse you in advance.”
She nodded with a quizzical frown.
“This is one of the vanished realms. The earthquakes you all assumed were just earthquakes were in fact the evolution of a new Earth. When I snatched you, Sable, the Earth was beginning its rebirth. Soon, places will vanish. People, tons of them, will disappear and everything is going to be chaos.”
“Not following.” She wrapped her arms tighter around the tree, for support, or just from of nerves, she didn’t have a clue.
“Things change, they must to survive,” his arms opened, “this planet is no different. Humans without our special adaptations are unable to see what’s happening. To them it’s madness and will remain so until the day they die, to them it will seem like places and people have disappeared.” He shrugged. “In reality nothing’s going to disappear, it’s evolving. Becoming sentient. The land will call to like.” He pointed to his chest. “People like you and me.”
Oookay . Not at all what she’d expected to hear, but she’d promised to listen with an open mind, even though this was testing her resolve a lotta bit. “And this happened how exactly?”
He seemed to be searching for the right words. “Do you know anything about cancer cells?”
“As in the human disease?” At his nod, she cocked her head. “Not really catching the connection here, Hunter. What does cancer have to do with places disappearing?”
“Not disappearing. Altering. A healthy cell becomes damaged when the genetic information is destroyed or corrupted, when the body can no longer fix the cell it morphs and becomes cancerous. That’s what happened to our world. Did you ever hear about the Starfish Prime project in the ‘60’s?”
She laughed. “Way before my time.”
“Okay, the project was a government space race type deal. The Soviets were leading the charge for space dominance. Then in ‘61 they set off a couple of nukes at high altitude. The nukes were strong, but nothing compared to the one America blasted off as a show of power and a very clear message of: we’ve got bigger, better, and badder. It was Starfish Prime and the fall out was beyond anything anyone had expected.”
This sounded like really bad science fiction and she wanted to laugh at him. She really did. But she was good. She held it all in and nodded and listened and tried, really really hard to accept the fact that the world she’d thought she’d known was nothing close to reality.
“Radioactive particles descended to Earth and accumulated in terrestrial organisms, fungi and lichen. The genetic code of those sub life forms mutated, when animals came along and ingested it, they also began to change. Eventually those animals were eaten by humans who procreated and passed those genes along to
The fear and pain of killing her nanny dulled down to a quiet whisper. The hurt of having parents who didn’t care. The humiliation of being told repeatedly she was crazy, of having leeching, groping paws touching her and making her feel like she was nothing. A gentle flicker, like a soft lilting hum, infused her limbs.
“From now on, if you’re ever in danger or in pain fly back here. I’ve shown you where it’s at and you carry within you the instinct of your phoenix. She’ll always know how to find her way back. Follow the ley lines; you’ll be able to move between realms that way.”
She looked around. “But where is here and what in the world are ley lines? And did you just say realms?”
His smile was indulgent as he said, “Ley lines are invisible threads of energy that bisect our atmosphere, sort of like a giant tic tac toe. The lines are the bridge between our lands and that of the humans.”
“Our lands and humans. What?” She scrunched her nose. “You’re really making me feel stupid here. I don’t like that.”
He grinned, rubbing the back of his neck. “Here’s where this conversation gets mind numbing and scientific, so sorry if I confuse you in advance.”
She nodded with a quizzical frown.
“This is one of the vanished realms. The earthquakes you all assumed were just earthquakes were in fact the evolution of a new Earth. When I snatched you, Sable, the Earth was beginning its rebirth. Soon, places will vanish. People, tons of them, will disappear and everything is going to be chaos.”
“Not following.” She wrapped her arms tighter around the tree, for support, or just from of nerves, she didn’t have a clue.
“Things change, they must to survive,” his arms opened, “this planet is no different. Humans without our special adaptations are unable to see what’s happening. To them it’s madness and will remain so until the day they die, to them it will seem like places and people have disappeared.” He shrugged. “In reality nothing’s going to disappear, it’s evolving. Becoming sentient. The land will call to like.” He pointed to his chest. “People like you and me.”
Oookay . Not at all what she’d expected to hear, but she’d promised to listen with an open mind, even though this was testing her resolve a lotta bit. “And this happened how exactly?”
He seemed to be searching for the right words. “Do you know anything about cancer cells?”
“As in the human disease?” At his nod, she cocked her head. “Not really catching the connection here, Hunter. What does cancer have to do with places disappearing?”
“Not disappearing. Altering. A healthy cell becomes damaged when the genetic information is destroyed or corrupted, when the body can no longer fix the cell it morphs and becomes cancerous. That’s what happened to our world. Did you ever hear about the Starfish Prime project in the ‘60’s?”
She laughed. “Way before my time.”
“Okay, the project was a government space race type deal. The Soviets were leading the charge for space dominance. Then in ‘61 they set off a couple of nukes at high altitude. The nukes were strong, but nothing compared to the one America blasted off as a show of power and a very clear message of: we’ve got bigger, better, and badder. It was Starfish Prime and the fall out was beyond anything anyone had expected.”
This sounded like really bad science fiction and she wanted to laugh at him. She really did. But she was good. She held it all in and nodded and listened and tried, really really hard to accept the fact that the world she’d thought she’d known was nothing close to reality.
“Radioactive particles descended to Earth and accumulated in terrestrial organisms, fungi and lichen. The genetic code of those sub life forms mutated, when animals came along and ingested it, they also began to change. Eventually those animals were eaten by humans who procreated and passed those genes along to
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