Fantastic Children 2 Ch.10Chapture 10: At the Bottom of the Deep Clear Sea"Hasmodai Hasmodai Hasmodai "When he opened his eyes, it took him several minutes of blinking before the blurriness cleared, and even after, he barely recognized Soreto. Her face was streaked with blood, her eyes and nose puffy and swollen."Soreto?"She looked relieved. "How many fingers am I holding up?""Some of them," he answered.He was sitting in a chair. He leaned forward to stand, but a wave of pain and dizziness seized him, and he closed his eyes again. His head felt he put up a hand to feel the back of his head, bu
Fantastic Children 2 Ch.11Chapter 11 : The Burden and the TransienceIt was unfair, Dumas thought, that the universe should make its own rescue so complicated. Once again he was coming up short in the number of souls he needed to relocate.He thought there was a good chance that those in the ship's control room might have survived, because that part of the ship was designed to detach from the body in disastrous circumstances. His sister Tina had been in there.If she had not survived, he had no more interest in saving the universe. Let it all fall down. He owed the rest of creation nothing.Agi had almost certainly been killed, and that was a serious inconvenience
Fantastic Children 2 Ch.3Chapter 3: Teo: Small PlanetTeo took a deep breath of sea air and let all the tension leave his body with it. He had not thought that the day would come when he was relieved to be leaving home. He loved his sister Serena, and was happy she was in love and going to be married, but he did wish that she had fallen in love with someone he actually liked.Lately Rogan had been casually asking questions about whether Teo planned to go to college, and exactly when, or whether he had been looking for a part-time job yet, and even about which of the siblings actually owned the house their parents had left them. Even Serena seemed to be impatient
Fantastic Children 2 Ch.4Chapter 4: Pollux and Dumas: Tearful MorningsBuilding the device had been the easy part. Keeping anybody from knowing about it had been nearly impossible. Pollux had watched Castor tinkering with his own project for half an hour before feigning disinterest and boredom, and wandering off to dismantle a portable computer on his own."I just want to see what it looks like inside," Pollux told Doctor Mellert when she started asking questions. "I've never had one I was allowed to take apart before."As he disassembled the machine bit by bit, he laid the parts out neatly on the counter of the lab. All but the parts he needed. Those he secr