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

admired her accomplishments, and they did share part of each other, so it was more an issue that Trina felt closer to some of the other fuses. Huong, Mia, and Jessie had all come around and hugged Ava a moment after she appeared.

      They were so excited for her to get what she had wanted. It definitely gave Trina pause for thought. She had never planned on having children but that didn’t seem to be a likely outcome now. Assuming she survived the coming war, she would have to do her part. They needed children from as many women because even with their enhanced genetics there was still a need for as diversified of a genetic pool as possible.

      What shocked her about that line of thinking was the undercurrents of emotion that she felt. Jay was amazing in so many ways. It may have taken the end of the world to bring it out, but he was bold and decisive now while still being kind. He somehow managed to make her feel like she was the only woman in the world when she was with him. That was no small feat with the minds of more than twenty other women linked to both of them around the clock.

Out of that emotion rose a certainty that she had never expected. She wanted to bear Jay’s children. There she had admitted it, if only to herself. Now was not the time for daydreaming though.

      “Ava, we called you here to help us make the last jump,” Trina said.

      “Uh, but Master isn’t awake yet,” Ava replied

      Amelia tsked, “Yes, that is exactly why we want to make the jump now. Let him get his rest. He has been doing so much for all of us. This way we will be able to scout the new leviathan and present a report to him when he does wake up.”

      Trina felt the balance of uncertainty about if it was okay to do this without Jay and the desire to do something nice for him. It rushed all around the fusion, but her and Amelia had already decided on this as soon as they realized that Jay was actually going to sleep. His consciousness seemed so suppressed in the fusion that it was clear he was actually in deep rem sleep. For just a moment she wished she could have peeked in on his dreams but then decided that probably wasn’t for the best.

      Instead she said, “Amelia is right. We are sure about this. Each of us is nearly as strong as Jay was when we started this journey or at least half as strong. While not all of us are combat specialists, all of us have the ability to kick ass and there are twenty-five of us.”

      Trina heard a coughing sound behind her and turned to see Scarlett or rather Scarlets there. The one in front said, “Twenty-seven. There are twenty-seven of us.”

      “Yeah, yeah, sorry. It is hard to keep you straight. There is so little difference in your thought patterns and none at all in your appearance,” Trina replied.

“That is why, I’m changing my name to Vermillion,” said the one to the left, while the one to the right said, “and my name will be Saffron.”

      Somehow as soon as they each named themselves, she was now able to identify them in the fusion by their names. Their thought patterns were still virtually indistinguishable, and they all still looked exactly alike, but if what she understood was true, then over time they would develop into their own more distinct people. She just smiled and said, “So twenty-seven of us. Half of us will stay here as guard and half of us are going to go out and scout the ship out as soon as we dock with the leviathan. We will be counting on you science types to make that part work.”

      Amelia then said, “If you want to stay behind and protect the ship then go stand over by Huong, and if you want to scout the ship, go stand by Trina. We won’t make anyone go scout, but we also won’t let more than half of us go. The rest need to stay here.

      After a few rounds of discussion Trina, Amelia, Jessie, Meikiyo, Maddy, Charlotte, Bong Cha, Samantha, Vermillion, Kayla, Sora, Trudi, Esseme, and Martina were discussing their plans for once they hit the ship. Martina would help cloak them, but if it came to a battle, she would focus on creating illusions of extra troops to distract the enemy.

      Amelia would be their assassin striking down any threats before they endangered everyone else. Meikiyo would be their aerial support. Sora, Esseme, and Maddy would also be in the back row, using their abilities to heal or control the environment. Trina would lead half of the others while Charlotte led the others into direct battle if necessary.

      Of course, hopefully they wouldn’t have to fight at all. Trina really wanted to rescue whoever was being experimented on here. She realized that early on she had been too violent. The fusion as well as time with Jay had worked a change in her. She wasn’t afraid to do what needed to be done, but she would prefer to keep things peaceful if at all possible.

Chapter 17- Forgot to Set the Alarm

      Jay sat up. A spike of fear shot through him. Something was wrong. His mind was adapting to the rush of information. His fuses were being hurt. Well, some of them. They were fighting.

      He sent out a broad scan and drew information about what was happening even as he quickly dressed. Oh, he wanted to scream. They had gone to the new leviathan without him. As soon as he got angry, he could sense why they had done it through the fusion. It