THE AQUEOUS TRANSMISSION. MIKE EYE
to peer right through the glass, straight at the woman.
Magdalena did not see a body attached to this Head. She noticed, right at the part of the ship's glass dash that the head’s Third Eye seemed to stare through, a tiny triangular crack. And then, encircling the crack, more parts of the window began chipping in inlays of triangles of various positions, forming a tessellation of perfectly fractured triangles in the glass.
Lina gasped.
Then around those triangular chips in the glass came more triangular chips. Bedazzled, and in great fear, Magdalena watched as more and more cracks of perfectly-formed triangles were being made in the glass, always around the previous cracks, radiating outward from the original crack, beside the Third Eye in the Forehead of the mangled face that eerily gaped at her. This was a haunting spectacle that sent bone-tingling shivers up Lina’s spine.
Freaking out now in full-force, and fearing that the dash may shatter, Lina turned around and hobbled in torment as fast as her bruised body could bring her, toward her small bedroom at the back of the craft.
She tripped, falling on her wounds, cursed aloud.
Getting back up, she raced rapidly to her bedroom door. She frantically pressed the button on the wall to part the two midway panels of the horizontally sliding door, burst in, and banged on the lock button on the other side as the silvery door panels clamped together and sealed shut.
Episode I. The Anointing of Mother Magdalena | Chapter 4.
SHE EXHALED A DEEP SIGH OF RELIEF AS SHE PLACED HER BACK against the reinforced door, her cool, bitter lust-muscle beating rapidly and out-of-rhythm.
In front of Magdalena was her special bed. It was queen size, made of memory foam, and decked out with darkly colored bedsheets that bore elaborate tribal designs throughout. The sheets were tattered, filthy, and had many holes in them. Lying upon the bed was the recently deceased Fletcher Munsin, Shadow of the last man on Earth, quintessence of Lachrylon, and recently reclaimed by Magdalena in an isolated part of a world now destroyed.
Throughout her lifetime, Lina had always figured she