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The Wondering Mind
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Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Lightning Lang
ISBN-10: 1724542915
Type: Fiction
Pages: 201
Copyright: June 28,2019
ISBN-13: 9781724542915
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
What if you ended up on a planet. . .and had no idea how you got there?
The Elouse are creatures who live on the planet Ethereal. When they find a human child lost and alone, they take him in and care for him. Sinya, the human child, struggles to remember anything about how he got to Ethereal. As Jasper, the Elousen father, searches for answers, Sinya’s new mother Ellen and her daughters Taylinn and Avigale help him adjust to life on their planet.
Taylinn's dad is going on a secret mission aboard a space ship. Taylinn overhears that the mission is really “to save his family from him?” Could he mean Sinya? Sinya starts seeing Mer-Dragons, a made-up tale told to him by Avigale and Taylinn but this Mer-Dragon talks to a being known as “Malic,” one that means danger for Jasper and the family. But no one will believe Sinya when he tried to warn them of the danger. When Taylinn finally sees the truth of the danger for herself, she tries to alert her friends, but just like Sinya, no one will believe her, including her mother. Now in order for Sinya to get back home, these unlikely pair must team up to save Jasper, and his family from the coming danger of Mer-Dragons!
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Excerpt
1 : Finding of the Creature
A sound of moaning woke Taylinn up. She slipped out from the
covers of her bed and peeked out her door. Her friends were
snoring downstairs. Taylinn stepped onto the landing and went
past her sister’s bedroom and up a short flight of stairs to their
mother’s room. With the door cracked slightly open, her mother
looked to be in a restless sleep again. Taylinn sighed. Ever since
last month when their baby brother was snatched away, their
mother had been in a state. She blamed Mer-Dragons but she
knew better than to bring up such a tale of fantasy.
“What are you doing?”
She turned to find her sister, Avigale. “Just couldn’t sleep, so
I’d thought I check on her. I thought I heard her moaning.”
“I’d hear her, if she did,” Avigale said.
I blame it on my heightened hearing, which you don’t have.
“Your right.”
“Better get back to bed. In a couple hours we have school and
I’m sure we want to get in some band practice before going.”
She glanced at the dark lumps spread out on the floor and on the
bench. “She’ll be all right.” Avigale descended the stairs toward
her bedroom.
Taylinn followed Avigale and disappeared back into her own
bedroom. I hope you’re right, she thought as she closed the door.
Taylinn was about to get back into bed when her pointed ears
twitched to a noise outside. She pulled her curtain open and
stared out into the night. The bright stars gleamed onto the grass
of Ethreal below. A cool wind brushed past her milky white fur,
and her eyesight, another blessed or cursed trait, caught
movement among the trees in the far-off forest. Something was
in there that didn’t belong. Perhaps the one that kidnapped her
baby brother. Taylinn took her white cloak from the closet,
wrapped it around her fur, and leapt through the windowless
window to the ground, then took off on all fours, like a cheetah.
Taylinn stood at the threshold of the forest and peered through
the huge and eerie trees, casting blotting shadows on the ground.
Her tail tapped the ground, trying to sense if anything was amiss.
Walking along the dirt pathway, she held the edges of her cloak
up, hoping the bottoms wouldn’t drag into any mud puddles. Her
Parents would surely disapprove of their eight-year-old daughter
being out at this hour. I know I saw something out here, Taylinn
thought, cautiously scanning the area. She kept her ears and eyes
sharp for any movement. Unlike the rest of the Elousen race, her
heighten sense was normal for her. It seemed that she was the
only one that had it.
Her ears picked up on the slightest noise. Frogs croaking
happily, insects joyfully singing, owls softly hooting. Her lightblue eyes pierced through the darkness, enabling her to see rather
well. The ground began to sparkle with strands of grass around
the trees, she hoped it was from her heighten vision and not from
the sunlight. Upon hearing a rustle in some bushes, she turned
and saw a creature jump high into the tree above. Taylinn only
got a glimpse of the creature, but she clearly saw it had no tail.
She knew she had to get back home before her family woke, but
she had to investigate. Dropping to all fours, her hands and feet
sprang her down the trail, following the chatter of the trees until
she stumbled and rolled head over feet onto her back.
Looking around, Taylinn realized she stood surrounded by
trees that enclosed tighter to the pathway. An area she was
unfamiliar with. When she stopped panting, her ears focused on
the noise above. But the sound she heard didn’t come from the
trees. Looking at her feet she saw what made her collapse onto
the ground. A piece of clump of dirt sat in the pathway. Taylinn
starred at the patch and noticed it was fresh dirt. She made claws
come out of her finger and she began to dig. The dirt gave way
to form an opening. She peeked inside to find a mop of black
hair attached to a small body. The being was laying on its belly.
Picking up a stick, Taylinn poked at the lumpy form causing it to
moan. She jumped back as her heart skipped a beat. Throwing
the stick away, Taylinn raced out of the woods.
She sneaked her way across the field, cautiously so not to be
seen by anyone she knew. Taylinn hid among tall grass and
stones. Dropping to all fours she ran across the dirt to a hole in
the ground. Climbing down the ladder quietly so not to wake her
friends she crept down three rounded steps, through the darkness
among the sleeping lumps on the floor and up the stairs to the
landing and stood in front of her sister’s door. Quietly she
opened the door and entered the dark room. Unlike her own
room, Avigale didn’t have a balcony to let the sunlight in. The
room brightened slightly nevertheless. Taylinn stepped over
some cloaks that laid folded on the floor. She went to her sister’s
bedside and gently nudged her awake, Avigale opened her eyes.
“What is it?” she asked.
“You need to come with me, Avi,” Taylinn said.
Avigale struck a match and lit the wick of a candle that sat on
the nightstand. “Where?”
“No time to explain.” Taylinn shot out of the bedroom and
down the stairs. But when she reached the bottom she tripped
over one of her friends.
“Ouch!” cried Dotty.
“I’m sorry, Dot,” Taylinn said, standing back up.
Dotty stood rubbing her head. “What’s the hurry?”
“Tay, slow down,” her sister’s piercing blue eyes glared at her
while Avigale came down the stairs, wearing her cloak.
“There’s something out there in the forest and I don’t want it
getting away.”
“Shhh...trying to sleep,” William mumbled.
“An adventure in the middle of the night?” Dotty asked, raising
her voice a little and clapping her hands. “How exciting.”
“Dot, quiet. We have to get up early, so we can practice before
school,” Leroy stated in a gruff tone.
“Shhh,” Taylinn said, turning on her, “wake up our mom why
don’t you?” She rolled her eyes.
“At this hour?” Avigali asked, “You’re crazy.”
“Please, there’s something you have to see,” Taylinn pleaded.
At first, her sister looked up the stairs toward their mother’s
closed door. Taylinn prayed she wouldn’t call her.
“What’s in the forest?” Avigale asked.
Taylinn sighed with relief.
Leroy, nine-years-old stood. He threw his pillow at Taylinn.
“You can wake the dead.”
William, older than his brother and sister, stood next. “What’s
the fuss about?”
Taylinn led them above ground. Racing to the forest, she
brought them to the deep part of the woods, where she’d tripped
on the lump and encountered the mystery thing.
The other four children all stopped abruptly at seeing the
dugout mound.
“What’s in there?” Leroy asked. He squinted inside as so did
the other three. Avigale and Dotty both gasped and backed away.
“Is it alive?” William asked.
“Only one way to find out,” Leroy said. He thrust his arms and
head into the hole and struggled to pull the creature out.
Taylinn swallowed. Is this the right thing to do? What if it’s
dangerous?
Leroy stepped up to it slowly, despite the girls’ protest and
rolled it onto its back. Its face looked like theirs, with the
exception of being covered in dirt, but it had no fur on its body.
Just a bunch of brown fur on top of its head. It also had no tail.
Taylinn took a quick glance around. This isn’t the same
creature that I saw? She swallowed. That means it is still out
here.
“Is there something else?” Avigale asked. “How did you know
to come out here?”
“We should get this thing home before mom wakes up and
finds us missing,” Taylinn said.
The creature began to float away from the ground. Leroy’s tail
stretched wrapping itself around the creature and they all started
heading for home. “It’s not even heavy.”
“It’s turning out to be an interesting sleepover,” William said.
Dotty walked alongside her brother, staring up at the creature’s
face with wide eyes. “I think I’ve seen it before on the Vision
Box, I think it’s what they call a hu-main? How did it get here
though?”
How indeed? Could Nimus have brought it here? Taylinn
wondered.
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