Episode 6
Part Three
Reanna awakened in a sweat, so different from the calm peace that had possessed her since the Churn began. She gasped and touched her ears...surrounding her, she could hear a chorus of sound, humming off of the walls, and deep within that bed of sound she could hear the chattering of hundreds of strange voices, speaking in a language that seemed an echo of distant stars.
She pressed her ears more tightly, and the sound seemed to fade, but only a little. And now it seemed to her kind of...pleasant.
She got up and went out to the communal hall, padding on bare feet. She turned her head slowly, and with each turn the bed of sound shifted and changed, like light glittering off of a faceted jewel. She turned back...there, a young tech looked at her, his face pulled into a mask of concern. His lips moved but his voice seemed so far away, lost in the chorus of sounds around her.
She walked toward him. She felt as if she were floating. The chorus rose up around her.
The young man's lips moved again, but she could not hear him. She saw his face as if in close-up, the sweat forming at his hairline. He seemed so anxious.
She smiled at him and reached out to pat his hand. She felt him grab at her, felt him striking at her. She tried to shout, and the chorus turned into a screech, splitting her skull. She tried to shout again, and then blackness overwhelmed her.
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