by Beth Hoyer
eats ravenously. He ignores their staring at him as he is wolfing down the food with his hands tearing at the gonoid till he finds himself no longer hungry to sit leaning back. He frowns as the Builders continue to eat the gonoid slowly then he points to his mouth and shakes his head. A male Builder compels him to speak which he says that his race have some sort immortality that keeps them deathless but they still need to sleep and eat food to function normally and do their traveling between worlds for with out the nourishment and sleep they’ll literally get stuck on a world their on till they get what they need for functioning better and doing their traveling. Leader exhales a breath to watch the Builders eating the deer slowly which he goes to a log nearby to sit up leaning against it and closes his eyes falling asleep. Leader finds himself back next to lighthouse meeting Jon again who tells him of the Rakcar making five copies of Eric and what they are including one of the copies being sent to Terrania by Leader himself. Leader groans out a profanity comment as Jon adds that he has worse news which shuts him up. Jon adds that the Rakcar have hooked up the Sun Lord as a battery to one of their machines without his breathing device and was told by Dick a twin that Eric has rage episodes which the breathing device was controlling them. Leader groans out loud as Jon continues speaking that Dick has admitted getting a memory of the Rakcar visiting Terrania with one of their scout ships crashing into the planet and hooking up the Sun Lord to it which Eric used his rage episodes to gain control of the ship’s internal defense systems to kill off the Rakcar and used it to free himself and others from the hook ups. Leader stops groaning to frown as Jon continues that he has found where the Sun Lord is hooked up and has been trying to contact Eric like he can contact the other batteries and hasn’t been acknowledged by him but is detecting something wrong with the systems and found the problem coming from the Sun Lord which suggests that Eric is having a rage episode. Jon pauses then continues to speak that the systems he’s examining show that the Sun Lord is aware of himself being a battery which his rages is fueling his awareness and has found out from the examining that Eric has discovered that he can control systems and is seeking systems involving weapons which he suspects the Sun Lord intends to use to destroy the Rakcar. Leader interrupts Jon to ask a question of where the Sun Lord is hooked up and that Jon could influence the Rakcar to get Eric out. Jon in response groans loudly to speak that the Sun Lord is hooked up in a warehouse in the Rakcar’s capital city as a battery to keep reserve batteries of people alive and adds that he already tried to get the Rakcar to free Eric but the Sun Lord he detected got control of the warehouse’s guards and killed the Rakcar whenever they went near his battery hooked up place. Leader speaks a question asking if a Zeskaya like himself could access the warehouse and free the Sun Lord which Jon interrupts to speak that the access to the warehouse is very heavily guarded by both machine and live guards who are a race called Samol that have no loyalty to the Rakcar and their Pharaoh that are judging by their behavior are seeing Eric as some deity leader and it was they who killed the Rakcar when they tried to get inside the warehouse to access Eric. Leader frowns as Jon adds that the Sun Lord influenced from his rage episode state from system examining has managed to contact the Samol and has formed a dialog with them talking to Eric and Eric responding which Jon has eavesdropped on their talks talking about destroying the Rakcar by getting control of the planet’s weapon systems and firing them. Leader throws his hands up as Jon keeps talking that the Sun Lord’s tone when Eric is electronically talking to the Samol sounds like he’s angry and is controlled by his anger and has made no secret of wanting to remain hooked up hence the Samol seeing him as a deity leader for its well known among the Samol that whenever they talk to a battery, the battery in question talking back to them always pleads to be freed from hook up and it happens a lot to the Samol. Leader shakes his head with a sound of disgust as Jon includes that the Sun Lord’s attitude to remain hooked up is unusual among batteries for they always don’t like being hooked up and has complained to each other among the batteries about wanting to be freed from the hook up. Leader opens his mouth to speak when Jon rush speaks that Leader and his group is in a forest park in the capital city and they should follow the sunset position to get out of the park to the city where they should walk unnoticed for the city is populated by Human like races which blending in will be fine and that Leader is about to be waked up. Leader finds the scene going black finds himself back in his body to feel a hand on his shoulder shaking him awake gently. He wakes up to look at the Builder staring at him. Builder asks him a question if the Zeskaya has dreamed up a way out of this forest. Leader speaks that the way out he has dreamed requires them to follow the sun’s sunset position which will lead them to a city populated by Humans and Human like races which they should be able to walk in it unnoticed. Builder he stares at forms a glare on his face to ask a question about what battery was contacting the Zeskaya. Leader speaks that his name is Leader and the battery in question is a Humanian named Jon who is in the guardian tower. Builder he stares at helps him stand up which Leader stretches when standing.
Kossman sits down staring at Dick sleeping which he leans his head back and snoozes to discover himself on a dry arid field with a lighthouse he recognizes as the Rakcar’s guardian tower and he sees a Humanian standing next to Dick apparently talking to him. Kossman goes up to the two to hear the Humanian speaking that files on the original and copies don’t make sense for they seem like their altered manually to keep others from knowing the truth about something. He stares at Dick who frowns and then the Humanian continues his talking to speak that he doubts the Samol would allow anyone near Eric due to seeing him deity like. Kossman frowns as the Humanian gasps that Eric he senses has accessed the files and has in response to them has disabled a Rakcaran warship forcing it to crash. The Humanian speaks to Dick telling him that he’ll contact him later. Dick fades from eyes sight as the Humanian turns his attention to Kossman introducing himself as Jon. Kossman frowns as Jon speaks that he’s telling the truth about the files being altered and adds that alterations have the files say that the original was destroyed and suspects that the Eric hooked up is actually a biological copy who’s angry about that hence his attitude. Kossman groans out loud as Jon continues speaking that he’s searching the systems with the help of other batteries for unaltered files on Eric which he suspects files on him were altered by the Samol who have no loyalty to the Rakcar and their pharaoh and are manipulating the hooked up Eric in their attempts to destroy the Rakcar. Kossman groans out a there goes the planet comment which Jon speaks that he thinks the Samol have the original alive and hidden somewhere possibly in a suspended state to keep him from moving or alerting the others of his presence. Kossman frowns as Jon adds that Kossman should go to Terrania and tell the copy Eric about this without mentioning what he told him alone and that Kossman is about to be waked by Dick. Kossman sees the scene goes black as he feels a hand touching his arm shaking it which he jerks his eyes open to see Dick leaning over his chair with a frown on his face. Kossman asks Dick a question what was wrong which Dick replies that he keeps getting an image of something that is bothering him and needs someone to mind walk him to speak what’s he’s seeing. Kossman hears the Seer speak that he should go to Terrania and bring a mind walker to scan Dick’s mind. Kossman nods his head and gets up going through the gate.
Kossman with Jiang and Niya arrive through the gate to the room which Kossman speaks that he has brought a mind walker and the Sun Lord’s mate as Zeskayas appear in the room. He sees Niya has a look of disgust on her face when she eyes Dick who appears to be frowning with eyes staring at the floor. Kossman speaks Basic to Jiang and Niya while translating his words in the Zeskaya’s language telling the two that Dick has an image of something in his mind that he’s having trouble with and it’s bothering him and needs a mind walker to scan his mind to see what it is. He stares at Jiang who turns his head towards Dick with eyes narrowed. He translates Jiang’s talk who is talking about Dick seeing something cl
oud colored with night sky outlines like a box he appears to be lying in while still wearing his Sun Lord uniform. His eyes in the image are open staring at what appears to be a box cover an arm length above him while lying on something that appears to be hard of metal while feeling he can’t move any of his body except his eyes. He is feeling a coldness feeling in the middle of his chest and feels something is pressing on it with a prick of pain attached to it. His eyes see the top of a storm cloud tube with two tubal wires leading to part of the night sky outline and he feels that he is still wearing his breathing device but has an oxygen mask covering just his mouth. His eyes travel around the box seeing above his forehead with his eyes looking further up attached to the box is his breathing device with tubes going down to his nose with a clear oxygen mask part on top of the device that is attached to the box cover by two straps of cloth attached to it. He senses movement to look ahead of him