The Irangel | Prequel Story |

Chapter 8 ~ Creating Alt-Humans

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~ Outer Space before back
on planet Earth ~

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Now that she was in space and away from Iredescent, Tori took to studying the Iredescent ship she hijacked and stole in order to take herself and the two dead Iredescents back to Earth.

The Glowing Radar's interior was lush red and gorgeous, very luxurious in appearance. The exterior was shimmery lavender purple. I guess Adrezo was what made it the Glowing Radar, Tori thought as she walked through the hallway. Evana's enere was tucked away in her tote bag, her Heckler & Koch leaning against the wall.

The Iredescent ship looked and felt more advanced than human spaceships. There were sleeping areas with complete showers and bathrooms, a full-size kitchen, and a fuel reserve that held enough fuel to last for a hundred years. Each Iredescent ship had essentials: a Meh, invisibility camouflage technology, food, water, and other things.

Tori went in the kitchen, awed at how modern and chic it looked with all the glistening sparkles. She opened the sparkly purple fridge and ate Iredescent food for the first time, marveling at how even their food sparkled. Iredescent water tasted like Swiss Alps water, fresh and clean from the mountain springs. It sparkled the most brilliant white, reminding Tori of how snow sparkled in the sun.

Iredescent food was amazing, flavorful and surprisingly very similar to Earth food. Among the standard chocolate chip cookies (unknown to Tori, chocolate chip cookies were mandated on every ship), milk, fruit, yogurt, cereal, even steak, there was an emergency kit with tea packets of a tova fruit.

Tori inspected the tea packet, unsure what a tova fruit was. She put it aside, trying out the mint tea instead, and found a Meh among the other ship's belongings and essentials. She used it to scan what those foods were, what they were called, who were Adrezo and Evana, and many other information about Iredescents.

She learned much from the Meh, finding out the tova fruit was a contraceptive fruit that prevented pregnancy, grounded up and consumed into the form of tea. She learned that the lemon slice looking food called leyn was medicine that helped the immune system, and that the persiki fruit were like an apricot/peach mix. Iredescent candy was like a burst of glitter, its taste like caramel. And the chocolate was truly out of this world.

Tori continued to explore the ship, finding other random things that belonged to the Iredescents. One of them was a book with Iredescent myths and fairytales. It was written in the Iredescent language, so it was totally foreign to Tori, but it intrigued her regardless. She touched the pages softly as she admired the glittering pictures, the pages feeling like tapestry with words woven into the story, with pictures that seemed so lifelike that Tori wondered whether the characters would actually jump out of the book, for the pictures were made of a moving hologram design that changed when you moved the page, the lenticular prints giving off a really cool 3D effect. The Iredescents evidently put much care into their books.

Among those myths was a winged Iredescent man with black roses all over him, a woman in white that looked like moonlight, and a man clothed entirely in darkness with sunlight above him. Tori had no idea what that myth or legend was, much less aware of how it would influence the world. She had this ominous feeling about it, so strong to the point where she firmly closed the book and stored it away, never touching it again.

Hours passed before the need for sleep arose. Tori chose a bedroom closest to the cockpit. She changed into sleepwear, picking out Iredescent clothes stored in the ships' cabins. After admiring the silky shimmering fabric for a moment, she got under the covers, knowing she needed to get some sleep before she arrived back on Earth.