Descend- Seeing Stars by Sean Oswald (the ebook reader .TXT) 📕

he still liked to look at those he spoke to with his physical eyes. He may have shed his internal organs, but he wasn’t sure he would ever part with his sensory organs. He still enjoyed perceiving the world in such an imprecise but primal way.

      He had to put his questions in the right order. “How is everyone? Did we lose any of our people?”

      Amelia was sad and had clearly been crying but she said, “All of the fuses are still alive. A few are unconscious from the strain but that is to be expected. Seven girls from Team Jay who were not fused, died, but we were able to save all the children. I will give you the names of those that died later, or you can take them from our minds.

      Right now, though we need to focus on Meikiyo. He reached out with his mind but couldn’t find her anywhere.

      Trina said, “Meikiyo is cut off from us. I don’t believe she is dead but can’t prove it. She found where Higen was being held but the battle was still raging. We made the decision that she should go after him.”

      “You were too busy for us to ask, obviously and we felt the loss of one fuse wouldn’t matter,” Huong said.

      Amelia then added, “The last place that we were able to connect her was the A’snkarnt home world. Her ship is still there but there is some type of PSI interference which is keeping us from reaching her.”

      PSI interference. The expression made Jay grimace. Their biggest advantages against the Forlorn, truthfully the only reason they had stood a chance at all was the enemy’s inability to stop attacks made with PSI. He had just quite literally scoured the heavens of them, and they hadn’t been able to resist. Sure, it had nearly killed him but to hear that whoever had taken Higen might have some way to interfere with PSI was terrifying.

      It wasn’t like this would keep him from going after his wife and son, not for a second. But he still needed to prepare. Especially given how his body ran completely on PSI now, it was essential for him to be able to win this encounter. They had come too far to stumble at the finish line.

      They had to know what he was planning but it was Mia who said, “You need to rest, Jay. It won’t do you any good to find them but then be too weak to save them.”

      “I can’t afford the time and don’t dare use another Tempus Fugit field now, for fear of causing damage to myself or the universe even. Besides, I’ve been tired before, but my PSI regenerates quickly,” Jay replied.

      “This isn’t about being tired, what you did… there just aren’t words for it,” Jessie said.

      “Like I said, I’ve pushed myself before.”

      “You’ve never done anything like you just did. I still don’t know how it was possible and I’m fused to you. No one has ever done anything like that. You were fucking glowing like a star, husband,” Huong said.

Jay started to protest again but was suddenly pushed down into a chair behind him by small soft hands pressed against his chest. He was caught off guard as Ava said, “Master, she is right. You overextended yourself. I could feel it. Your soul or mind or whatever you want to call it was fractured and sent out into a million million different directions. You were somehow connected with everything around you.”

      He sighed wearily, then said, “I simply did what had to be done.”

      Ava was clearly worked up and for her to have pushed him she must want him to take her seriously. “Master, you say that so flippantly, but it was more than that. It shouldn’t have been possible. You cracked the space time continuum. You undid what happened and rewrote history to suit yourself, but you also spread PSI out into the universe in a way that it never had been before.

      Honestly, I’m still trying to figure out just how this is going to affect things. I don’t know that the impact will be limited to the here and now. It may have assorted impacts throughout history.”

      “Maybe what he did always happened, and we have lived with the results our entire life without realizing it until this moment,” Jessie said.

      “My people have known about PSI long before we met you, as I told you, mate. PSI has always been as long as we have been aware as a people,” Eesa said.

      “Yes, that is exactly what I mean though. If he cracked time to save us, then what is to say that he didn’t spread PSI through the universe in that instant,” Jessie said back.

      “I’m sure that all of this is particularly important, but as soon as one of you points me in the right direction, I am going to teleport to where Meikiyo was last seen. I have a responsibility to her and our son. You all know I have to go after them just like I would for any of you.”

      “The boy scout can’t be himself if he isn’t risking his life trying to save us. White knight syndrome for sure,” Amelia said.

      “And you love it as much as the rest of,” Huong said.

      Amelia smiled and snapped back, “Shut up slut. Stop giving away my secrets.”

      “I for one won’t stop Jay from being who he needs to be. He has won at every turn,” Trina said.

      Jay was surprised given how overprotective of him she could be, “Thank you, Trina.”

      She looked at him and put her hand on his shoulder as she said, “That doesn’t mean that I am going to let you go alone. You may