Tri-deca-installment (original) (raw)
Sleep came easily to Grover, but his thoughts were troubled, to say the least. The cats strange utterances about some Nine, whoever they were, while puzzling, seemed strangely relatable to him. He often felt as if they was more than one voice in his head, more than one destiny directing his life. He quite honestly never knew what he was going to do next or where his story would take him. At least he seemed to always have meds of some kind, as they made these sudden shifts easier to handle.
He now found his dream populated with endless cats, all shapes and sizes, all manner of beasts. Indeed, some of them could only loosely be called cats. In fact, this could only loosely be called a dream, as he was now suddenly quite aware of the fact that he wasn't dreaming anymore. This was too real, the tell-tale mental clues of illusory visions weren't present. "Dang, now I can't wake up from my dreams," Grover bemoaned. "Maybe my destiny is compensating for my It-Was-All-A-Dream cliche with the reverse cliche." Popping down another Blisserol, Grover decided that he maybe should have his prescription checked at some point. He wasn't sure, but his was beginning to suspect that this batch was a rather strong one.
Grover and his new friend slid outside into the harsh Xanadian atmosphere where another friend picked them up in a spacecraft. Views of other worlds…
Jeremy Blitz was Captain of the Research ship Xanadu, on the planet named for the ship, deep in the Omicron Eridani system. At the moment, Captain…
Grover physically woke up to the sounds of alarms and running footsteps, though he felt he had already been awake, as he had somehow seen one of his…