"Excuse me? Who are you then hm?" Z muttered, confusion filling the room.
The girl who's name seemed to be Sarah smiled and muttered to herself.
"Too early. I thought as much. Let's see them..." Sarah spoke, her square pupil looking up to the roof as if trying to remember something. Or in this case, checking memory banks.
"Have you... Seen 'The Singing Stars of Sandronite III'?" Sarah asked, looking down towards Z again, noticing her confused look and looking back up, once again muttering.
"Early days then hm? all right... Have you met Predator?" Sarah questioned again, looking up at Z.
"Lookie here girly. I don't know what kinda game you're tryna play..." Z snapped, Sarah just chuckled.
"That's a no too! You must be VERY early!" Sarah smirked, looking up again.
"Okay, this isn't funny anymore. Just stop it, Sarah." X stated, stepping forward. Z's arm shot outward, blocking X from stepping. X turned to her, and she shook her head. They both look back at Sarah.
"Have you met Lilly yet...?" Sarah smiled, looking into Z's eyes.
She felt vulnerable. Like Sarah was probing her insides, looking through her mind and her heart. "I've met none of these people," Z muttered.
"Listen, you two are time travellers. You are Oracli. Hundreds of years old by now. I'd wager 200-300 years old each? No, I am not your daughter, I was just taking the piss. Is it so hard to believe that someone from YOUR future would meet you before you met them?" Sarah babbled.
Z and X looked at each other, their jaws dropped. They put their hand to each other's chin. Closing their mouths. They each cough.
"You don't have to trust me. But given you're here... I will bet you have already met The Werewolf of Maningo Forest?" Sarah said.
They talked in the doctor's room they were in, Z and X sitting on the operating bed and Sarah sitting on a chair across the room.
Z had only now taken in what Sarah was wearing. She had long black, leather pants with rips at the knees. In the missing place, there were knee guards, like the kind a child's mother would tell them to wear on their first time riding a bike. Black leather boots that went up to her knees covered her feet. Her top was one of those 'Live, love, laugh' tops that you see in clothing shops. Over the top, she wore a trench coat made of purple silk.
"Look you two... I can't tell you anything about your future. I'll give you a place to stay until this has all been dealt with." Sarah added, filling the silence which had followed a terrible one-liner from Z.
"Thanks, Sarah! You're a lifesaver, honest!" Z said, her northern English accent coming through with the last word. They walk out to the back of the building, past the bins which were full and to be honest, repulsive, over the fence and into the silver SUV with the license plate: 'meddler'. They drove for about a half-hour until arriving onto a college campus.
"This is where you live?" X questioned, eyeing the building, the school was old, ancient it seems. They left each classroom window open, the inside visible in the light. Across one window, X could have sworn he saw something, a shadow, a figure in the dark, scurry across the window and into a room.
"You alright, X?" Z asked.
X did a double take from Z to the window, turning his head but still looking at the window. "Y-Yeah. Just thought I saw something... Must've been a shadow..." X explained, he snapped out of it and looked at Sarah.
He now noticed that Sarah was hiding something on her arm, under her left sleeve. Whenever she moved it, a tiny bit of it showed. It was gold and imprinted on the skin. It was a letter. He couldn't tell what it was.
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Tales of the Oracli - (almost) COMPLETE EDITION
Science FictionI was writing this book for many years and have since decided to turn the series and all my plans for it into a comic series. As such, I have decided to publish all the work I had done on this story for the world to see. I hope everyone enjoys!
