Thursday, October 22, 2009

An Excerpt from Chapter 2, Time and Space

Zeetherious’ circular head and slanted shoulders took up the entire PDA screen. He had two large eyes, on either side of his face, much the same as humans, but had nothing resembling human ears or lips. He had no wrinkles, but he looked old.

“I can see you, so you should see me.” Zeetherious lipless mouth moved, but was out of synch with his words.

The children gaped at his distorted image on the PDA. He was illuminated only by the murky, yellow-green light cast by his monitors. His movements were sudden and imprecise, like a movie with pieces of the film edited out. The video signal was pulsating, growing weak and fuzzy, then so bright that the children had to squint to keep looking.

Jonathan, Kelly, and Benny leaned in on each other and began whispering. He moved DRAVU number two in between the three of them and increased the input volume. By the time Jonathan spoke aloud, Zeetherious knew what he was going to say.

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