Sanchez lay on the hovering brushed-steel table. The top half of his suit had been stripped off and his arms and legs were strapped to each corner with shiny black material. An eight-foot creature, human in form but not appearance, dressed in a purple robe, stood over him. Its four black soulles...
The motors aided his muscles weakened by months of prior surgery so that he felt like his old bad eighteen-year-old self again. To his left lay the pyramid structure Mach and Adira were trapped within. To his right, and straight ahead, sweeping around in a swarming arc, were hundreds of proto-ves...
Mach rested against the steel door and watched Adira expertly clamber to the ceiling, remove a panel and disappear into the gloom above. A few seconds later, Adira’s face dropped out of the darkness. She wore a satisfied expression on her face and gave him a thumbs-up, indicating she’d cut the v...