Alarik and Phoebe - Excerpt from Karrik for #wewriwa and#snippetsunday

 

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I’m continuing from my current work, Karrik, Book 6 of SciFi series, Taxyon Space. If all goes well, I plan to submit the book for pre-order soon. 

Over the past few weeks, I posted snippets from the first chapter where the crippled Karrik is unhappily confined to a room in a hospice run by the Pearl Sisters on the aliens’ home world of Rishalt. You can read last week’s excerpt at: https://auroraspringer.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-forlorn-cry-excerpt-from-karrik.html

This week I’m moving to the next chapter. This chapter introduces Karrik’s brother Alarik and his human companions. Their story began in Book 4, Alarik.

Many lightyears away in the Earther solar system, two people stepped into a quantum transporter on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.

The fleeting tickle vanished and the haze dissipated to reveal the vestibule of the Amethyst Starship. Clasping Phoebe’s hand, Alarik Kenton Tallis steered her out of the Qtrans alcove. Phoebe Wong, an Earther from the Martian colonies, had traveled with him on the space ferry to Europa and become his lover.

Glancing at him, Phoebe gave a tremulous smile. Her eyes shining with excitement, she murmured, “That felt really weird.”

“It always does,” Alarik said. “Our bodies were fractured into quanta and reintegrated here on the Amethyst Star.”

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“The Prime’s starship.” She touched the copper bracelet on her wrist, his gift and token of his love. “I’m glad you’re coming with us. I’d be terrified to face Prime Jadel alone.” They were traveling to Rishalt because the supreme Prime had summoned the three people associated with the recovery of a mysterious Eekrepisth object. As a precaution, the alien treasure was concealed in Phoebe’s bracelet.

He pressed her fingers. “By the Great Mother’s grace, I’m grateful we were not forced apart. Triarch Webale might have ordered me to resume my disguise and fly to Earth.”

Phoebe replied brightly, “And I could be on the starship with the colonists going to Zeta Three.” She shook her head. “I’d rather be with you.” Chuckling, she said, “Even though you’re not fabulously wealthy Rick Kent.”  

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