All Chapters of Dark Goddess: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Elina, of course, had agreed; she disliked the idea of crawling through the vegetation in her expensive robe. The blouse could tear, the pants dusty, a horrible idea! No doubt all kinds of animals would crawl through the bushes with the sole aim of tormenting them. There was absolutely no reason to expose yourself to these rigors; thanks to the communicators, she was always close to the action. She had taken an object from her accessory that was disguised as a small flip mirror, but actually had two screens that showed her what the seekers of Melor and Nehem's rifles were seeing. Still, however, these views were so boring that their interest focused on the bound slave at her feet. Elri was lying on the floor, her arms behind her back and also tied to one of the front seats. Her legs were also artfully tied.“It can't be long now,” said Elina, “it's going to be an impressive spectacle, believe me! Have you ever seen what a plasma pulse does to a person? It is

The horrific scream of a Zerkano-Flugwardler ripped the air, a sound often heard in the woods of Ivarn in spring, but it wasn't spring. Tjonre knew who could mimic that sound perfectly. The perpetrator stepped over Melor's corpse and was approaching the abyss dangerously. But he stopped and waited. Tjonre had heard the signal that Raft had been successful. As agreed, he left the cover of the forest and ran towards the rocks. He saw Raft hurling an object as far as possible away from him and towards him. The plasma pulse pistol landed a few yards in front of him in the bushes that lined the path; Raft no longer needed her, he now had a rifle. Tjonre had to struggle through the vegetation for a moment before he could take the weapon. Then he turned and ran quickly back into the woods. There he left the path and moved under the privacy screen of the forest edge bushes to the lake shore; he wasn't sure if the edge of the forest near the lake shore could be seen from the helicopter. The

Elri heard the scream and recognized the panic on her tormentor's face. Her arms were tied to the floor anchorage of the front seat and her legs were also tied to each other and therefore only very limited mobility. But it was extremely elastic and flexible. When Elina wanted to pass her to the pilot's seat, she clung to its anchorage, lifted her body with a swing like a cobra and darted her lower legs into the hollow of the blond woman's knees, who then lost her balance and with an ugly curse on her lips with her forehead crashed into the fittings. Blood spurted. Elina howled. "We'll talk about that!" She shouted, got up, sat down and pressed the button that set the rotor in motion. The leaves spun faster and faster, soon enough for the helicopter to rise from the ground. The bronze-colored man with the blond hair was already dangerously close when the gloomy aircraft took off. “You're too late!” Elina triumphed, but she was wrong. Tjonre dropped the gun and dived for t

Wet and disheveled and in a bad mood. Destroys your makeup. The hair slapped against her skin, blocking her view. The silk blouse badly damaged. The black jacket and pants soaked. So she stalked to the bank, with the last of her strength, for leather jacket and trousers were heavy and she was a pathetic swimmer. These failures! She had relied on the GnErwan brothers! Left her plasma pulse pistol in her pocket and then panicked and thought of escape. She hadn't been able to imagine that the armed man who'd taken down Nehem wouldn't shoot her next, let alone give her time to look for the weapon. Because looking back, she realized that she probably would have had enough time to do so. Why did he do that? It never occurred to her that someone was afraid for the life of a slave and did not shoot immediately because of it.She trudged on to the bank, freezing and exhausted. Then she heard steps ahead of her and looked up. She stopped in amazement and horror: “You are dead!&rd

She laughed and sobbed and then replied, "Sorry". She could hardly utter that one word because she had involuntarily started to chatter her teeth; not only as a reaction to the hypothermia, but also as a result of the life-threatening events from which she had only so narrowly escaped. Besides, she was trembling all over and breathing jerkily. He stroked her hair and back in hopes of calming her down, although he was in little better shape himself. Only the awareness of being able to protect her and the pride that he had once turned everything for the best caused him to stay calm and not to cry and chatter his teeth himself. He pushed the images of the doomed Ma from inside, who wanted to tell him that he hadn't done everything well after all. He also suppressed the warning that Raft was still out there and maybe still had to fight or was already dead. He should rush to his aid, but he lacked the strength.He didn't know how much time had passed, but eventually she began to b

Shape and size of the pictures. It could very well be memes. Then your observations. Your father kept borrowing it from you. And; the black monsters were looking for something but probably not found it. If I'm right, they haven't been until today. ”He could almost hear her thinking. "Do you really mean? I always thought that it was only of special value for me - as a reminder of very good times, of security and love, of happiness ... but I cannot imagine that it is also of value for others, or that someone would even commit murder for that. You can turn around now. ”In the not very body-hugging, dark blue jumpsuit, she looked adorable but not very sexy and the high, pink towel turban did the rest to make her look rather strange. She also had to turn up the sleeves so as not to get lost in the one-piece. The trouser legs, however, fit reasonably well; she had very long legs. Tjonre couldn't help but chuckle, but refrained from saying anything, as she was a

She swam through a gloomy kelp forest, wide organic veils moving synchronously in the play of the waves. She knew she had to get to the surface, up to the bright spot above her, but a strange indolence held her back. 'You have to go up, otherwise you will drown', she thought and this thought roused her apathy. She pushed up now, threw her arms back in a wide arc, but she got no further; then she looked back and saw a huge, clawed hand that spanned her ankle.Elri's heart pounded wildly, she opened her eyes - and looked into a vampire face directly above her, with large, golden eyes with vertical, slit pupils, with a blood-red, slightly opened, smiling mouth that revealed fine, extremely sharp canine teeth. For a moment, her imagination played the scene of those sharp teeth digging into her throat. She gave a violent start and flinched. Talira straightened up again. 'Can avatars be jealous?' The thought flashed through Elri's head. 'Absurd!' She concluded."You dreamed,

“ Wasn't there a risk of discovery anyway? Ten years is long after all. ”He rocked his head back and forth. “Of course you can't be sure, but actually the Ivarner are not interested in their moons. They are not researchers, they have no commercial use and apart from the innermost there are no landing pads either. There, however, the pirates have an intermediate base. Maybe you were there when you came here? ”Elri shook her head. “The ship stayed in Ivarn's orbit and the ferry flew straight from there to the airport. Most pirates that Ephram brings close enough to the planet do it that way. ”“ In any case, he wouldn't have let us so close, so our ferry is extraordinarily spaceworthy. ”“ Is our flight long? ”“ Not long, a few standard days . “They paused to deal with the Knusperhelices and Elri tasted the dark drink. It tasted a little sweet, but also a little bitter

Tjonre laughed again. “No, although many musicians, mainly composers, come to Wägan to experience the singing of the sirens and to be inspired by it.” He paused for a moment. “When the first people came to Wägan, they discovered that the amount of ultraviolet radiation in sunlight is very high - dangerously high.” Elri thought of her rather pale skin compared to Tjonre and saw her future dreams burst. “The first generation people were careful and wore clothes that almost completely covered their bodies. But already in the next generation they became less careful. In the meantime it had turned out that many sea animals and the fruits of the sirens were edible and partly also tasty. Some of the settlers switched to local food, while the more cautious in this regard, who wanted to wait for the long-term effects first, ate terrestrial plants that were grown in UV-protected glass houses. They died in the wild. ”He paused again, but then conti

Well, when Ma warned you, you could have just dived to your ferry or waited for them to lose patience. I mean, you didn't have to fight Elina and the other two, but you did, for which I am very grateful. But why? ”Tjonre paused. Was it really that unclear what she meant to him? Was her self-esteem really that nonexistent? "Because of you, of course! Ma told me that Elina caught you. Do you really think I would have left the planet without you? I could have done that impossible. Believe me, if you hadn't been in danger I would have avoided any fight. I am a coward! But so I had no choice. ”Elri had accepted that Tjonre had put his life in danger because of her when he had seen her threatened. Then - so she thought - he had acted in an affect. But that he had actively sought the people who wanted to kill him, 'just' to save them, that was beyond their imagination. She looked at him big and astonished and then did something she would never have believed hers