The Secrets of the Universe (Farther Than We Dreamed Book 1)
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Wu Gwei walked out of one of the rooms carrying a cylinder just like the one they had found in the Crystal City.
Charlie jumped. “What are you doing?”
“It’s alright. I’ve already examined the other one. I won’t accidentally activate any of them. There’s a storage room filled with these. Perhaps hundreds.”
“Can we take this ship back to the Shamballa? Is that safe?” Charlie asked them all.
Wu Gwei nodded. “I can disarm it and I know a safe place to quarantine it while we study. Captain, this is a great day. This was the point of our mission. If the race which built this ship is still alive then we’ve done the impossible: we have made contact with a parallel intelligent race. We are no longer alone in the universe.”
“Wouldn’t that be something?”
Sally and Wu Gwei were left to take the new ship in. Sally was almost positive that the alien race was known as the “Bahba.” Charlie and Umbra went back to their shuttle to bring it in. As Umbra piloted, she began teaching Charlie how to control the ship. The basic controls were actually simpler than he expected, but the vehicle was very sophisticated. The advanced functions were multitudinous and he couldn’t imagine ever mastering them all.
“Did you know the last me well?” Umbra asked him after the ship had left the atmosphere of Tertius-5.
“Not long. I haven’t been here long. She was nice to me though. She explained more to me about our situation than anyone else. Have you met Allambree?”
“Briefly. I know him from history, of course. I had to do a book report on him when I was a little girl. He’ll be so excited when he sees the Bahba ship.”
“Yeah. You should get to know him. The last you and he became very close in a short amount of time,” Charlie cautiously said, remembering how broken-hearted Allambree had been when Umbra died.
“Oh, I don’t know about that,” the seven foot tall furry woman replied. “I can think of other people of the crew I’m in more of a rush to get close to.”
Charlie tried to reply, “Who?” but the word never quite got out of his mouth before the physicist leaned over and kissed him. His eyes went wide. In shock he swung his right arm out and bumped one of the controls. The ship began to descend to the right.
Smiling coyly, Umbra pulled back and righted the ship. Her lush white fur rolled to the left as she corrected the pitch. “Settle down, cowboy. I know he’s your friend, but you don’t have to crash us.”
In his surprise from being kissed by the post-human woman, Charlie’s third eye had opened again. He found himself looking down at the shuttle’s futuristic computer screen.
“Oh my God!” he shouted.
“It’s not that big a deal. Jeez, just forget about it, if you want. Unless you don’t want to forget about, then we actually have about twenty minutes before we have to land and -”
“No. No. It’s not that. Umbra, I’m looking at the computer with my third eye open and…..”
“What?”
“I can see my password!” It was the notes from Die Walkure, just the same as he had found written in the positions of the rocks on Primus-3.
TO BE CONTINUED
Noah Mullette-Gillman was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He spent his childhood there, as well as in the town of Manly, Australia, and the woods of Upstate New York. He earned a multidisciplinary degree in Philosophy and Creative Writing at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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APPENDIX
THE CREW
CAPTAIN CHARLIE DAEMON
Born: 2030.
US President, Rock Star.
QUEEN GLORYANNANA MELLIFLUOUS
Born: 2119
Monarch, Pop Star, Talk Show Host.
DOCTOR DAVID PETER AELFWYRD
Born: 2130
Scientist.
SALLY BRIGHTLY
Born: 2232
Starship Captain, Explorer, Pilot.
ALLAMBREE ALAWA
Born: 2259
Archeologist.
KALLIGENEIA ATHANOS
Born: 2362
Artist, Biologist.
VERONIKA ZAVADA
Born: 2414
Artist, Geologist
WU GWEI
Born: 2512
Warlord, Heavy Metal Guitarist.
AVRAAM FOCK
Born: 2549
Hero.
NAYARA BORGES
Born: 2604
Musician, Diplomat.
UMBRA FARRAH
Born: 2740
Physicist.
MEW TSE
Born: 2792
Artist.
THE STORY WILL CONTINUE IN…
…..RAGE OF THE COSMOS
EPISODE FIVE: CLAY
COMING DECEMBER 2014.