Adventures in Time, Space, Life and Death
“Thank you…” Gath smiled as he watched Retvik prod at a bowl of food. Retvik clearly wasn’t very hungry, but he was trying to eat something. He needed to eat since he’d just swallowed a good number of tablets and didn’t want to have an empty stomach. “As always, you are welcome, Retvik. You do … Read more
“It’s… been a while since I last came here…” Arkadin muttered as he followed the insanely long tail of Kinisis into the large kitchen. The rest of Kinisis was in the other room, rummaging through stainless steel shelves and cupboards. “Oh?” “Yeah.” “When WAS the last time you were here?” Arkadin thought back, trying to … Read more
“Hey, kiddo…” Arkadin rolled his eyes as he turned away from the screen. Perched on the chair behind him was Kinisis, the Allmaker, the creator of this universe and, technically, Arkadin’s mother. Technically. “You weren’t gone long.” “Yep. I know. I got questions for you.” Arkadin took a deep breath and turned off the computer … Read more
“Hey kiddo!” The warm, friendly voice was met with stony silence as Arkadin continued his work, clearly in the middle of something important. Everything was dark and gloomy in the tiny little office, aside from a single beam of light pointed at a microscope, providing the only illumination in the room. “Uh, kid?” Arkadin remained … Read more
“Good morning, Kinisis, did you rest well?” The Allmaker kicked the blankets off her bed. Both she and Kenon knew that Kinisis never really slept, she would just take short breaks with her eyes closed, but Kinisis appreciated the sentiment. Everything within this cute little bedroom seemed rather ill-fitting for the being that created the … Read more
“Retvik, I am so happy to hear your voice!” Gath’s deep, booming voice echoed down the crackly line. He seemed slightly out of breath, as if he had rushed off to answer the call. Retvik briefly wondered why, then decided to just talk. He had a lot of things on his mind and sitting in … Read more
“Hey Gath!” Psiksi waved as the front door opened up. He and Kass had arrived as soon as they could, after Tenuk had called them saying that Gath didn’t seem right. “What’s up?” The hulking Rethan grunted, looking not at all amused by this unexpected interruption. The two Skyans both peered past Gath and into … Read more
“Please, Rethais, come to bed.” The High General had been standing by the tinted window for at least an hour, gazing off at the city of Thre-Vretantia, one of the main capitals of the planet Retha. Physically, Rethais was the perfect Rethan specimen, but deep down, Rethais was mentally exhausted from a never-ending stream of … Read more
“Feeling any better?” Trismit remained fixated at the plate of food in front of him. Despite the severity of what had happened, the Rethan government had been very calm and understanding with him. He hadn’t been locked up or persecuted or anything like that. In fact, all they had done was put him in a … Read more
Trismit led Retvik down corridor after corridor, past rooms filled with canisters, all linked and wired together and all leading to a single, utterly dark chamber. Inside were monitors, all as silent as the chamber itself, and a single, lone canister. “Alright, what the fuck is going on?” Retvik snarled as Trismit fiddled with a … Read more
Nothing made sense. Retvik had just been standing next to Trismit in a seedy little office, leaning on the desk shifting through maps and working on their plans to escape. Step one had worked perfectly. But now nothing was as it seemed. Everything was pitch black but everything was wet and salty as well. Retvik … Read more
In the time it had taken for Retvik to get Kuta to the hospital wing, the shadowy Rethavok had attempted to throw himself off ledges and down stairs no more than ten times. But after what had seemed like a few hours of worries and discomfort, everything seemed to be finally settling down. Kuta’s sudden … Read more
“Wait wait wait wait!” Retvik’s voice echoed down the hallway as a small, red and white robot drifted by, hovering the ground and sucking up dirt. “What?” Kuta asked, holding a broom. “You have cleaning robots?” “Yeah. The whole facility is automized or automaticed or autowhatever it’s called… Automated. It’s all automated.” Retvik stopped what … Read more
“Oh… you’re back…” Arkadin sighed as he opened the door to be greeted by a very sticky Yisini. Her scales were glistening underneath a large amount of slime and goo that Arkadin couldn’t recognise and she stank of a fake, strawberry scent. “I am! I came to make sure you are doing well!” Yisini basically … Read more
Arkadin was quite happily sweeping up the remains of a burnt forest when the sky above him went peculiarly dark. According to his universal clock, it wasn’t due to become night on this little, somewhat lifeless planet for a few more hours, so this was quite strange. There was no wildlife or anything nearby to … Read more