See where Holly Moon lives - snippet for #WeWriWa from Baswin
I hope you are enjoying the holiday weekend (in the US and UK). If you are not traveling or busy entertaining, welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sunday . Sample the work of a new author. Read snippets of stories in different genres.
I’m posting excerpts from Baswin , the fifth book in my Sci-Fi Romance series, Taxyon Space . The story begins on Earth in the near-future when we have colonies on the Moon and Mars, smaller bases in the asteroids, and scientific stations on Europa and Titan. My snippet continues from last week with your introduction to Holly Moon, the female protagonist with a psychic talent.
You can read last week’s snippet at https://auroraspringer.blogspot.com/2021/05/my-first-snippet-from-baswin-scifi.html
Holly has scryed the body of a missing girl in a pile of rocks. (Note, Rosie is her sister.)
Tamping down her emotional response, Holly examined the girl as closely as possible with her remote senses. One pale arm stretched up, the fingers curled as if she had tried to claw up to safety. Her blonde hair was damp and matted. A thin ribbon of wet blood stained the rock below her head. A bad sign.
Spurred into action, Holly rapidly assimilated the physical details of the girl’s location and broke her trance. The crumbling walls of the pit might be the remains of a quarry or one of the bomb craters left in the wooded hills. The big cities had been rebuilt in the years after the war’s destruction, but nobody had bothered to repair the damage in small rural communities.
She grabbed her com, related what she had seen and punched the message over to Sergeant Powell. Her task was done. With luck, her description would enable him to pinpoint the site and recover the girl. Dead or alive.
Ten lines and here’s a little more:
Renewed anger and sadness at the girl’s dire predicament seeped into her thoughts. Leaning back in the chair, she shut her eyes and performed the mental exercises designed to sweep away the unpleasant emotions before they became overwhelming. She envisioned a favorite landscape, a beach of white sand washed by sparkling waves.
A few minutes sufficed to dispel Holly’s negative emotions. She swiveled around to gaze though the window at the verdant landscape. This room at the rear of the cottage overlooked the village allotments. Beyond the garden beds of vegetables and flowers, sheep grazed on grassy slopes at the edge of the woods. The soothing influence of the peaceful scene restored her normal serenity.
She and Rosie had chosen to rent rooms in the upper level of a house in this small village for that very reason. Yet, sometimes she wondered if they had become too settled in this secluded village when the world had so many beautiful places. If only they had the credits, she yearned to travel and explore different regions of the planet.
I’ll leave you with that thought. We’ve been stuck in relative seclusion for over a year with the pandemic. But now, we’re planning some travel later in the summer, although not as far as Holly will get.
Can a psychic woman from Earth find a home among the alien Warrish?
Alien merman, Baswin Kenton Tallis, Second of his Triad, lives on Earth disguised as a human. When the Earth authorities discover the secret identity of his older brother, Bas must flee to the Warrish base in the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
Psychic sensitives, Holly Moon and her younger sister Rosie, were chosen as candidates for Warrish training as hyperspace navigators. The sisters are eager to contribute to humanity’s advance into space. But will they succeed? They must pass a series of rigorous tests and adapt to the alien neuro-implants.
Holly meets Baswin on an island in the Pacific Ocean, but their destiny lies farther away. What obstacles will block their journey to a happy reunion of the brothers in the Flaming Comets Triad?
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