Into the Abyss by Stefanie Gaither EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Stefanie Gaither
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PROLOGUE
At first there is only the feeling of fire.
Burning Twisting. Scorching the spaces just beneath my skin, in
the emptiness between my fingers. My toes. My lips. It blazes its way
up into my brain, destroys every conscious thought. So I’m not sure
how long I lie there, body stiff against the cold surface beneath me,
before I open my eyes for the first time, and I see.
Sight. It is a glorious thing.
But too much of a glorious thing, too fast.
Far too fast. I don’t dare move at first, while my new eyes adjust and
try to make sense of the surface high above me. Eventually I grow
braver though, and I look down, see pale hands (five fingers each, no
burning around them now) and wrists wrapped with wires that twist
out and into a tall . . . something beside me. Something rectangular
(a rectangle is a basic geometric shape). It flashes and it beeps, and
for some reason I don’t like looking at it.
I turn to the other side and see gray silhouettes surrounding me.
Other eyes peering at me, squinting in the dimness. I stare back, and
the smoldering haze over my mind clears further. More thoughts and
words and definitions begin to flash in my head. They seem pointless
at first—annoying, really—but soon they begin to take form, wrapping
around the gray shapes and giving them deeper meaning.
Suddenly the darkness in this room doesn’t seem so absolute.
My eyes continue to watch those silhouettes. My thoughts continue
to rush rush rush until they reach kingdom: Animalia. Class:
Mammalia. Genus: Homo. Species: sapiens. Bipedal. Social. Welldeveloped neocortex and frontal lobe.
Finally, a conclusion: humans.
These are humans.
I sit up. The group before me takes a collective step back, save for
two in the very center—a tall human whose body type suggests female,
and another female who appears much younger. The second female’s
face doesn’t have the fine lines, the subtle creases that my brain is
able to rapidly identify as age markers. I study this one for a moment,
taking the pieces of her appearance apart and putting them back
together in a way I can understand. Eyes that equal a number first:
006600—the color evoked by an energy wavelength of approximately
520 nanometers. Connotations: nature, grass, hope, youth, envy.
Green. Hair that equals 330000, dark brown superimposed over red.
She takes a step toward me. The rest of the humans stay where they
are, their gazes downcast, feet shifting, mouths moving with hushed
words. And their actions mean something—I know—but what that
something is, I don’t understand right away. It’s more difficult than
the appearances, than the simplicity of colors I can see and make
sense of so easily. It’s a feeling. An emotion. Intangible, untouchable,
even as the air slowly chokes with it.
Fear.
The realization slides in and snakes its way around my thoughts,
squeezing tight.
It’s fear.
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