Renyke decided to take the straight road not paying heed to his gut instincts.
He failed in his goal to reach Redact.
An emergency meeting was held at Redact HQ and it was decided that the experiment was seriously flawed. This fusion of android and man was not ready and would have to be destroyed.
But after some deliberation, Renyke was given a reprieve. The experiment was to continue.
The sadness came
I couldn’t take the pain
Renyke was aware of the cold water around him as he felt an ever-increasing weight around his body. There were muffled bassy sounds, drums, shouting, music and voices.
His head hurt like never before. Air, I need air, he thought.
Octomen were one of the strange underwater dwellers that meet Renyke as he takes his first water breath
Someone was yelling. Was it Flex? Shabra? Friend or foe, he could not tell?
'Breathe! Breathe....just breathe, you will be fine.....' A stranger shouted.
Renyke knew that this breath would be the end. The end of beautiful, Shabra, who he longed for, and the end of Flex who had shown him how to live. Was he dying? Was this the death that humans feared? He had been alive for the blink of an eye. An irrelevance in a cosmos of never-ending chaos.
And then there was a deafening chanting and more drumming, or maybe it was his heart. Did he even have a heart? He could remember snippets of the past but the past was leaving him. Like a shrinking movie screen, everything he once thought he knew was getting smaller and smaller, and then it was gone.
Renyke took a breath at last. His lungs filled with the salty ocean water.
Then he opened his eyes.
He was breathing but there was no time to question the science. Crowds of strange sea creatures were staring at him. Looming figures made of weird animal-humans had their eyes fixed on him.
Who were the sea creatures, friends or foe? Renyke couldn't tell
Renyke jumped to his feet. Bubbles of air freed themselves from his body. Movements were slow, gliding, buttery.
The strange water creatures were transfixed by his every move.
Renyke moved his hand to greet them and they all flew back in fright.
Renyke instinctively checks the POS
They appear to be Underwater sea creatures, They are unarmed. Initial analysis suggests that they are very old and that they are a mix of materials, vegetable, minerals and biological parts. I am not able to analyze them further unless you touch them.
How am I breathing?
It appears that your lungs have recently developed the ability to extract oxygen from the water. You are amphibious but should avoid breathing water too near the surface. My initial stats show that is highly polluted with poisonous matter from human activity.
How did I get here.....?
My history data has been wiped. I appear to be reset to factory settings, as it were. There are a few links and data that I am not able to decipher at this time. They are locked and I cannot configure them.
Slave women from the ships of imperialists were often thrown overboard if they were pregnant. The spirits of the women were in a place between life and death where they searched for their children deep along the ocean bed.
Two bikers move towards Renyke. One beckons him to ride pillion.
to be continued..........
The sea was cold
I felt so old
As faith had left, again
The heaviness of water Sat upon my bones
As I sank into the darkness and said goodbye to home
Breathe! breathe!
they cried as the reaper drew my soul
And all around the creatures watched
as my thickening blood ran cold
Was death the end I wondered?
As I touched the ocean floor
I saw a life before me
and I knew I wanted more
So breathe I did,
again, again and the salty sea filled fast
My body fought for the air I knew
and I was sure to breathe my last
Angels of hell and water babes
inhabited the blue
Come they said let’s take a ride,
for we have chosen you
And so it passed,
my body changed
I am a warrior of the deep
Filled with hope and glory,
my best new life to keep
We lead the babes to mothers
thrown from the ships of slaves
Who seek their babies in the weeds
Whose tears become the waves
The suicides and fated
Who’s lives were taken fast
The bairns who cry for longing
We give their hopes a chance
To seek a peace more certain
Than that they lost on land
Where God and kin forsake them
Where no one holds their hands
© 2022 Sarnia de la Mare
Renyke was aware of the cold water around him as he felt an ever-increasing weight around his body. There were muffled bassy sounds, drums, shouting, music and voices.
His head hurt like never before. Air, I need air, he thought.
Octomen were one of the strange underwater dwellers that meet Renyke as he takes his first water breath
Someone was yelling. Was it Flex? Shabra? Friend or foe, he could not tell?
'Breathe! Breathe....just breathe, you will be fine.....' A stranger shouted.
Renyke knew that this breath would be the end. The end of beautiful, Shabra, who he longed for, and the end of Flex who had shown him how to live. Was he dying? Was this the death that humans feared? He had been alive for the blink of an eye. An irrelevance in a cosmos of never-ending chaos.
And then there was a deafening chanting and more drumming, or maybe it was his heart. Did he even have a heart? He could remember snippets of the past but the past was leaving him. Like a shrinking movie screen, everything he once thought he knew was getting smaller and smaller, and then it was gone.
Renyke took a breath at last. His lungs filled with the salty ocean water.
Then he opened his eyes.
He was breathing but there was no time to question the science. Crowds of strange sea creatures were staring at him. Looming figures made of weird animal-humans had their eyes fixed on him.
Who were the sea creatures, friends or foe? Renyke couldn't tell
Renyke jumped to his feet. Bubbles of air freed themselves from his body. Movements were slow, gliding, buttery.
The strange water creatures were transfixed by his every move.
Renyke moved his hand to greet them and they all flew back in fright.
Renyke instinctively checks the POS
They appear to be Underwater sea creatures, They are unarmed. Initial analysis suggests that they are very old and that they are a mix of materials, vegetable, minerals and biological parts. I am not able to analyze them further unless you touch them.
How am I breathing?
It appears that your lungs have recently developed the ability to extract oxygen from the water. You are amphibious but should avoid breathing water too near the surface. My initial stats show that is highly polluted with poisonous matter from human activity.
How did I get here.....?
My history data has been wiped. I appear to be reset to factory settings, as it were. There are a few links and data that I am not able to decipher at this time. They are locked and I cannot configure them.
Slave women from the ships of imperialists were often thrown overboard if they were pregnant. The spirits of the women were in a place between life and death where they searched for their children deep along the ocean bed.
Two bikers move towards Renyke. One beckons him to ride pillion.
to be continued..........
