Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #15 June 2015 | Page 18

Mark

Mark slowly awoke. Last night had been bizarre for
sure with Pearl, now Hiba, being almost murdered by
Liam. To finish his hangover he had dreamt that... wait
a minute! She was still there and he could not believe
his own eyes.
In front of him was the most beautiful blond woman
he had ever seen. She wore a silver space suit and
sat in the only chair in his room. “Hello Mark.” The
woman said with a sardonic smile.

“I’ll tell you everything in the breakfast room. If you
see any person who doesn’t belong to the base shout
for me. I have to look around to check they aren’t taking anyone else, I was already too late to help Liam.”
Then she left as fast as she’d came.

“I’m Saskia.”
Hiba burst in with her right arm raised as if poised
to strike the other woman. “You, get away from here
right now! I won’t allow you to take people from this
base before the Council has reached a final decision.”

While we still seated around the breakfast’s table Hiba
told us about her meetings with the Nordic aliens
and the light orb. Has she had gone mad from years
of staying in space? But then, haven’t I met a blond
woman in my room a few minutes ago? Mark thought
running a hand through his hair. Perhaps they were
all losing it. “We have made contact with aliens and
plunged in a new universe full of life while I was
sleeping?” He asked her.

Saskia stood: “You can’t speak for all members of
your species or for all people in this station. Just
before I met your colleague, and he was more than
happy to come with us because you had him chained
to a wall!”
“I will for the moment speak for them. Later on if they
decide to go with you that’s their own biggest problem. But for now you are leaving!” Hiba eyes sparked,
shining with anger. Was her hand also slightly glowing? Mark wondered bewildered.

Hiba smiled threateningly. “You haven’t seen half the
trouble I can make yet.”
Saskia turned to Mark. “I’ll be back sweetie.” Then
she disappeared.
Mark looked to Hiba, who took deep breaths to calm
herself and slowly relaxed. “So they took him already.” She said half to herself and half to Mark.

“Would you believe me if I told you that our world
turned upside down from last night to today in the
morning?”
“What?” Mark asked. He then noticed the dark circles
under her eyes and her dishevelled hair.

“Who are you?”

The blond woman narrowed her light blue eyes. “You
are stealing our property, the people we take belongs
to us. You are a troublemaker.”

Mark rubbed the sleep from his eyes. “What is going
on here?”

She nodded and pursed her lips.
“And I must show you something else... “Hiba raised
her hand and aimed at a magazine rack, a burst of
energy left her and set fire to it.
“Oh no Hiba, not my porn collection!” Djamal said
visibly upset.
“Sorry Djamal.” Hiba winced. “The energy in my
body increased too fast with the adrenaline of confronting the Nordics for me to control it. I had to let
it go before... “She stopped to ponder. “Only God
knows what would happen if I wouldn’t release it.”
But she wasn’t finished yet. “The light orbs took me
away for a couple of days between last night and today. They control time travel technology, so they just
took me and returned me a few minutes later. The Nordics appealed for reconsideration of their rights and

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