David Jackson
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I followed the girl deeper down the side street. It was quieter here, a lot quieter, and the bug-lamps that lit the way were becoming far and few between. BB muttered sourly, it sounded like he'd gone straight from being drunk to being completely hungover. He was right though, it could certainly be a trap. Some random woman leading me down a street into a dark and seedy area? That certainly had all the makings of a trap. Nevertheless, I had to see it through. If this wasn't a trap and the woman…-
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"I'm new in town," I replied to the barkeep, leaning slightly against the concrete bar with one arm and picking up my second drink with another. "Don't get many newcomers down here," The barkeep remarked, watching with what looked like poorly masked awe as I downed my second shot of the alcohol. Either the alcohol wasn't very strong, which couldn't have been the case considering how much it burned on the way down, or my metabolism had also been bolstered by the drink because I really wasn't feeling…
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I let out a breath of relief at the fact I had managed to escape the pursuit of the dranes. The simple fact of the matter was that I could have probably taken them out with relative ease. Their armour looked as if it had been built to give them more attack power and to increase their speed, but thanks to the amount of manna that was constantly coursing through my system I was likely both stronger and faster than them. No, the real reason I had been so insistent on getting away from them instead of…
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BB asked at the back of my mind as we looked over the banister and down into the seemingly endless depths of the city. It was a latticework of bridges and walkways connecting building to building all the way down in a way that was distinctly reminiscent of Prespian City, yet also completely different. Congruent design, across millions of lightyears. I wouldn't fall the entire way, I'd just hop from bridge to bridge and hope that the power of my footfalls wasn't enough to cause them to crumble under…
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Heavy footsteps clunked up the stairs, catching my attention immediately. "Your friend will be fine," the doctor said as he emerged from around the corner, "He was, as you suspected, incredibly dehydrated. But my scans ascertained the correct cocktail of fluids and nutrients that he needs. Within 12 hours of bed rest and a constant supply of fluids, he will recover." I sank down into the raggedy sofa slightly as relief washed over me from head to toe. As loathe as I was to admit it, part of my…
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"Help me?" Dan asked, "I wasn't aware that I specifically was in need of helping, but this planet could probably use the assist." Whether Dan was trying to be funny or if he was just an idiot I didn't really know, but I was still going to help the planet. People were standing on top of other people and forcing them down into the dirt, and crushing the life out of them when they tried to rise up. That rankled me. I didn't like it one little bit. I wasn't going to let it continue. BB asked, chuckling…
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At last, Yr'Arl was going to get some medical attention. With a flick of doctor Kreen's robotic wrist, a heavy clunk came from beneath the floor of the room that we had been in previously. With a whirring sound and a set of vibrations that rattled the windows, the floor parted and a small camp bed rose out of the ground on a shuddering platform. "Come, come, place him on the bed," doctor Kreen said, "My machines will see what is wrong with him, and do what they can to repair his damaged components."…
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"All of you shut up, no one says a word, not until it's safe," a voice hissed from the gloom of the darkened room. It took my eyes a minute to adjust, but when they did I was almost repulsed by the sight of the scraggly man before me. He was thin, as thin as a rake, with a tattered white jacket hanging off of his shoulders, the middle of it unbuttoned to reveal a mass of flesh and metal ribs, a glowing green heart pulsing at the centre of it all. One arm looked normal, human, but his other was a…
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