‘Nice work,’ said Chergoa. ‘That’s a good start. You should see if you can do something new now. Try manipulating a part of your skin--the knuckles, maybe. An application of keratin could make it more resilient.’
Emiliana made to respond, but when she looked up from her work, her eyes widened behind her mask as something else demanded her attention.
A pitch dark figure was suddenly there before her, taller than any person she had ever seen. But this wasn’t a person, seemingly. Rather, it looked more like a monster, covered in black scales and even bearing a tail in spite of its bipedalism. Its lithe torso seemed vaguely human, as did its folded arms and huge hands with long, gangly fingers, but its head was still a matter of debate. It appeared to have no mouth, somehow--or at the very least, no lips. A small protrusion in the scales suggested that the nasal passage was where it should be, but the eyes--those were piercingly reptilian, glowing faintly crimson, and most unsettling of all, staring right at her.
Emiliana was without a voice.
The creature was certainly alive and breathing, but it said nothing. If it even could. For a long moment, it only watched her, until it slowly turned its head and looked around in silence.
‘You okay?’ Chergoa asked privately. She’d been hovering next to Emiliana the whole time but didn’t seem especially perturbed by the monster’s presence.
Finally, Emiliana found the proper question.‘What the HELL is that thing?!’
Chergoa hesitated. ‘What thing?’
‘That giant monster! Right in front of us!’
‘Uh...?’
‘How can you not see it?! It’s right there!’
‘I don’t see anything,’ said Chergoa. ‘I don’t sense anything, either.’
‘What? Then...?’
The monster didn’t move. It only lingered there mutely, until at length, it faded away into empty space, dispersed like a whiff of smoke, leaving Emiliana to wonder if it had even been there to begin with.
‘It’s gone now... You really didn’t see anything?’
‘I really didn’t. You really saw a monster?’
She put a hand to her head. ‘I... I thought I did... What’s happening to me? Am I hallucinating?’
‘Hmm.’
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My theories :P
ReplyDeleteTheory 1: It was a future version of her.
Theory 2: It was another person with the mutation ability, who was so advanced that they can teleport and are undetectable by reapers.
Theory 3: A new player has entered the game :P
Props on the future version of her like her subconscious knows what she is supposed to be and that it's a glimpse.
ReplyDeleteEspecially since teleportation is probably impossible at any level. Now, projection...mental projection that is...if you can increase intelligence, can you gain certain psychic abilities by augmenting in other ways?
ReplyDeleteIn any case it can't be a future her, it doesn't have claws and she's stuck with those.
I am thinking she will have more then one of those glimpses of her futcher evolution and there will all ways be some kind of change in them
ReplyDeleteisn't this nice fela Dozer friend? cant remember the name....
ReplyDeleteHOLD THE PHONE! I vaguely remember something like that mentioned before! Think back, it was one of the events of someone walking into either a Vanguard or Abolish camp. Someone was startled by a bipedal, scaley, black, piercing eyed guy right? RIGHT? Am I remembering things that never happened? Help me out here.
ReplyDeleteYup you're thinking of Gohvis the black scourge. Although he was introduced on page 360 and it had nothing about walking straight into a Vanguard camp, even then we dont know if that IS Gohvis, the votes still up on what the hell that thing is.
ReplyDeleteThat thing does show up later in the serial though SO we will find out sooner or later.
good catch
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ReplyDeleteBloody Hell, what in Merlin's name was that?!