Taryn crested the
mountain she’d been climbing for the past three days. Nowadays, there were easier ways to reach her
destination, but as her college professor—Allen Smart—had once said,
“Sometimes, in doing things the easy way, you miss out on the important
information you would have gathered in getting there.” Although the professor was mediocre at best,
he had rare insights that she’d found infinitely useful, such as this one.
Scanning the area, she
headed in the direction she always made for and after a good ten minutes, she
came upon the makeshift camp she’d set up five years ago when she’d first
started doing this. Everything was as
she’d left it on her last visit and from the vibrations around her, she knew
that no one had been here to disturb anything.
Setting down her pack,
she made her way to AVIDD. Airway
Vibration Inhibitor Detecting Device. A
few quick strokes of the keys and the machine was up and running.
She loved watching AVIDD
come to life. If he were a real man, he
would be perfect. A smile graced her
beautiful face at the thought. At
nineteen, Taryn stood no more than five foot in height. It was a condition that all of the
half-breeds were born with. The same
with the white-blond hair and vibrant green eyes. No one knew why this was, they only knew that
it was.
She closed her eyes and
lifted her face to the sky.
She hadn’t been alive
for the war, but everything that had happened during that time was inside of
her. Just as the knowledge of where her
mother’s people came from and why they had come to Earth twenty years ago. She was the gatekeeper. That’s why she was here. To monitor the vibrations of the universe so
that she could make sure Earth was never again targeted without prior warning
as it had been the last time.
Her eyes closed as she
let the currents in the air around her tell her more than what the machine was
capable of. Oh, it did the job she’d
programmed it for, but there were more nuances in the air that only a true
Telarian could pick up.
She took a deep breath
and held her arms out to her sides, palms up to the sky as the wind gently blew
her hair in the air. She didn’t need to
open her eyes to know what was going on, instead, all she had to do was to look
within and the scene was there for her to watch. AVIDD started vibrating, causing her to
frown. With her eidetic memory, she knew
every nuance of the machines last scan.
Although it wasn’t off by much, it was enough to sound a warning inside
her telling her that danger neared. What
form that danger would take was at yet unknown.
But soon the answers would become all too obvious. She just needed to find those answers before
the danger arrived.
Taryn opened her eyes
and for a moment, there was a shimmering vision in front of her showing a great
mass in the sky shooting fire down toward a helpless planet. She followed the beam firing back to the mass
and she was given a view of a command center.
Sitting in the chair at the center of the command center was the most
handsome man she’d ever seen.
Suddenly, he stilled and
his eyes swerved to capture her gaze.
She felt the heat from his gaze as he studied her, her heart beating at
nearly triple speed as her breathing quickened.
She felt her lips part as his gaze zeroed in on her mouth and the desire
she felt inside was something she’d never been exposed to. Her gaze lifted to meet his head on and the
tilt of his smile as he smirked at her told her that she was in trouble. She severed the connection and hurried to
AVIDD. She adjusted the controls so that
the machine would continue to send her data, then she grabbed her pack and
hurried to where her tether line was grounded.
She had to get back
fast. Martel would be waiting for her at
the base of the mountain and she had to tell him there were no good vibrations
this time, only impending danger. He
would know what to do and who they needed to contact. 
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