Bethiah by Ruby Dixon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Ruby Dixon
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Bisexual Romance
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: March 18, 2023
DORA
“Home sweet home,” Bethiah announces as we step foot onto the
abandoned ship. Her smile is broad, and it’s that pleased look on
her face that tells me that this ship is something she is proud of and
I absolutely, positively should not cry.
It’s just that…it looks like a ship made entirely of garbage.
Mathiras and Helen had warned me that if I went with Bethiah, her ship
wouldn’t be as nice as the Little Sister or the real swanky-looking ship, the
Scarlet Gaze. I didn’t get to go on board that one. I just saw it through
screens.
This ship is nothing like those. It’s a lot smaller, maybe the size of two
RVs put together. The halls are tight, the ceiling much lower to the point that
it practically scrapes Bethiah’s capped horns. She doesn’t seem to be
bothered by it, but it feels cramped to me. The walls look like a bunch of
different types of metals were all hammered and soldered together—this
panel is a rusty shade, that one a gray, this other one a pale white with a
bunch of alien writing on it.
Pipes run along the ceiling overhead, and one
drips on my hair. I wipe at my head, and I know from asking that the pipes
are water recyclers and air recyclers and a few other things that make the ship
functional. Everything looks worn and used, like this ship was constructed
from the rejected scraps of an alien junkyard. As I walk down the narrow
hall, clutching my small bundle of clothing, I see what looks like a patched
hole to the right of me, and that’s alarming. What if the vacuum of deep
space sucks us out of a puncture and kills us? It takes nothing.
And there is a weird funky smell. Like machine oil and something
burning.
It’s all very overwhelming. I wish Ruthann was here, because then I’d be
in this new environment with another clone, another person that’s completely
out of their depth, and I wouldn’t feel so alone. As it is, Bethiah strides past
me, running her hand along one of the junkyard-looking walls and peers
down the hall. “Everything seems to be in working order if the backups are
keeping everything nice and climate-controlled.”
“O-oh?” I manage, looking around. “How can you tell?”
“You can’t see your breath, right? There’s no frost over everything. And
you’re breathing.” Bethiah grins at me. “That’s how I know.”
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