The Alien’s Blade by Ella Blake EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Ella Blake
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Dani
I thought I knew what it felt like to wake up. I had done it many times, and
not always from sleep. I’d woken up from concussions, comas, from
being drugged, and once, memorably, from being held upside down for
too long. Waking up from those things feels distinctly different, like flavors
of ice cream, but whatever I was waking up from now, was new for me.
I lay on something soft, in an inky-black place as enveloping as a
fathomless sea. I couldn’t move, not even to open my eyes. Everything was
heavy and warm. Reality was far, far away, except for the nagging sense that
I wasn’t sinking in that sea, but floating towards the surface. Part of me was
afraid of that surface. Like I said, this awakening was nothing I’d felt before.
The more consciousness that returned, the more afraid I became. What
happened to me? What fresh hell would I wake up to?
There was light on the other side of my eyelids. I was beginning to see
colors and shapes streak through the gray of my closed eyes, rather than
black. I still couldn’t open my eyes or move.
I tried to stitch together the last thing I remembered, but my memories
were as fragmented and incomplete as my consciousness. I remembered how
I felt though, and it wasn’t good. The sour taste of regret, and feeling wrong
about something I had done, made me want to retreat from that surface that
was now not far above me. Soon, I would wake up from this strange sleep. I
would face what was on the surface of this water, just as I’d faced every other
horror in my life. And there were plenty.
This was the life of an assassin. I had been trained to expect nothing less.
Male voices drifted in, ending the silence. They moved around me and
spoke a language I didn’t even recognize. Feeling started to return in my
hands and toes in the form of tingling. I could feel my face. The surface
below me was warm, but the air above was a little cooler. I flexed my fingers
and felt a soft sheet over me.
Devices hummed in the background. My mind raced for an explanation. I
was in a hospital or a lab facility. There were no other reasonable
explanations.
One of the males came closer. His voice was slightly gravelly and deep.
The language he spoke didn’t remind me of any Earth languages. Suddenly, a
strange feeling of vertigo flowed through me, along with a sharp pain in the
back of my head. I heard air hiss through my teeth, even though I still did not
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