Wednesday 1 hour.
General Sarrey worried a lot of cons-imminent attack. Its not rocket took off well, did not move his ships and his officers scrutinized all the causes that may prevent the infrastructure work. For now, no response. The rockets appeared to work, the monitors indicated no alarm, but However, nothing would move forward. His army froze on the spot as the German tanks in Russia during the winter of forty two. A pallor arose from nowhere.
Sari returned from the reactor hall. No suspicious signs were to be deplored. Sarrey already knew the status. But his second persisted in disturbing it. The man persisted in his arrogance. His impetuous nature had beat out other contenders when his superior at the time looking for worthy men could become his faithful second. His outrageousness and intelligence took him to settle quickly alongside Sarrey. The two men quickly became confidants. But later in the stubbornness needed Gaëlle Universal Sarrey. Sari became increasingly embarrassing to the pressure of women. She even became his enemy and vice versa Gaëlle thought. This man was up to her husband. So a competitor annoying. A power struggle as irrational Sari talked often quarrels with the muse of love power.
- You have bad news for me! In
public Sarrey vous his namesake.
- We can no longer reach Mars. So the order our reinforcements to join us can be given.
Sarrey remained perplexed.
- So all communication is blocked?
- Yes!
Sarrey Five minutes later left the command room. Gaëlle he found in his apartment. The girl was not asleep. Lying on her bed, she was checking the ceiling. In the turmoil, its freshness perishing before our eyes.
Her husband wanted to wake her. He had to explain the situation, but she knew everything already.
- The presence approaching is not it!
- Stop! Want. Your madness is growing, That's it!
- It is because of this thing!
- Impossible! In the room, nothing has changed and nothing will happen!
She spoke of this thing. This form enclosed in a concrete room army, almost at the heart of the ship. An inanimate object, lifeless, floating in a vacuum, and continuously monitored by three operators protected by a reinforced glass partition.
The origin of this object remained secret. But thanks to this entity Sarrey thought could conquer the solar system. One thing protecting his empire, so he had nothing to fear.
Wednesday 2 hour.
envoy to the armies approached warily to the table of command. Jack De Nemours reported some sad news to the president. Five general
worked in this place, they waited too on the report of the expert.
- Gentlemen, now four hours since our radar interceptors have not received any messages from our database of Jupiter and Saturn. In principle the frequency of emissions for each planet is one minute. At first we thought the Martian Confederacy had also attacked these positions, but soon we noticed it was different. Latest Posts Audio we have confirmed an attack of any magnitude. The last officer has spoken of an indescribable presence. She came from nowhere and immerse himself in the apparatus, and to destroy them completely impassable to all modules for man.
De Nemours interrupted. General Roberts also reported bad news.
- An hour ago, thirty rockets would take off from an earth satellite Terra. The mission was to approach the moon and see if enemy missiles were trying to turn around the planet. But a problem still unsolved prevented them all off.
President remained dumbfounded. The men watched. Its mandate was to expire in two years. His wife suffered a poor hospital. The man had already announced the Democratic Party he would not renew his mandate. Two hours earlier he appointed General Kost at the head of the U.S. Army. The man became as the main pretender to take command of the army of the Union Universalle. He sat beside the president. Before he was talking to the Russians and Chinese. Both nations refused to ally himself for the time directly the U.S. command. Alliers apparently refused to rush the Martian Confederacy, this new English-speaking country, do not yet caused them great concern.
Wednesday 6 hours.
In Texas, a small village near the gas station decor Rachel planted on the road from Fort Worth to Austin. The retailer opened seven days a week and twenty four hours in twenty four. The sun would soon rise and the night clerk patiently working to end go to sleep. Attendance at the place at that hour, increased nicely.
Glenn, a farm worker, rose early. He went to the station. The employee knew that accustomed. The man fills his gas tank and headed toward the right side of the building. He opened the bathroom door, closed behind him. Thirty seconds later he relieved himself. When he finished, he rose, but sat down immediately. His hands trembled, his blood coagulated in their veins. At first he thought of a heart attack. He was frightened. But a few seconds later, his body unresponsive. Just a single stroke became fruitful move. The man was crystallized, was mummified. It became a block of concrete gently pressed in an inert tank toilet of a petrol station pathetic. His life passed before him. His lungs are paralyzed. Its mass asphyxiation. A tourniquet pressed him invisible to the coup.
few seconds later he succumbed.
7 hours Wednesday.
Fond of a terrible nightmare, Jackie woke with a start. She left her husband and went to sleep in the kitchen. Still sick, she nonetheless refused to swallow a sedative. She swallowed a glass of water, looked off to forget the black hole. This woman had never drank alcohol, did not smoke, ate as healthy as possible, she kept her body and playing tennis. One day migraine appeared. This evil become embedded in his body are profound reasons. Sometimes he disappeared, but returned each issue of conscience. Ineradicable presence, living in the depths of the mind. A lot of living difficult to overcome day after day, as if this woman should suffer the decline of a perfect beauty. The affliction mandatory for every human being.
But that day, an external pressure enveloped the young woman. Jackie still thought to live in his nightmare, but the furniture around him identified with a strangeness unrealistic. A seasick A new kind of nausea. She rested her glass, attempting to return to his world, but nothing worked, this abnormal pressure offended him. She saw his vessels vibrate the glasses to crystallize. A compact heat Bronda its fires furnished in a seemingly uneventful. A whirlwind laughable invading the imagination of an innocent woman.
The girl noticed the presence listen, observe. This clearly stood out as a paranormal existence. She wanted to flee, leaving this place. She then walked to the lounge. Opened the outer door, went into the garden. The sun began to rise, the phenomenon coexisting disclosed spasms in the atmosphere, pierced the clouds of a discontinuous flow. Wind filtered air, the trees were struggling. Apparently nothing abnormal could be distinguished clearly in a rustic landscape.
Wednesday 7 hours 30.
threadlike lines the streets of the northern suburbs of Denver complied with the American tradition of servicing patchy. The villas were arranged in small earthworks identical. One hundred thousand families lived and attended this scope. Local residents working mostly in downtown. Government officials, financiers and factory workers. A distinct population with family duties addictive. James
rose. This single forty years emancipated the nest gently cudgel by the influence of his mother. He had just bought the family house too big for his daily employment. The man made sure wish one day from a Slavic country to find the pearl. His life passed slowly. The day was soon to occur. A woman was about to put its dark days. He rejoiced.
The man began his work in his bank to nine hours. He took his time. His habit of getting up early allowed him to take a shower and breakfast properly. His clothes were waiting reverently on the dresser. Despite current international concern if he had carefully ironed his shirt the night before. The bathroom looked like an operating room. Took up his razor integral in this setting, as a weight to its integrity. He approached the mirror, looked at himself. Later he was shaving, no controlled hair never went out of her cheeks. The man slept naked before entering the bath, he looked at his body for a few seconds.
James loved the instant hot water poured on her body. He enjoyed, thought the woman who would one day join him. Man did not feel too old to live that kind of experience. He continues, hoping not to disappoint. He splashed
for thirty seconds. Steam rose, mist up on the six window panes. Later he grabbed his soap. His body was burning, redness appeared on his body. But James did not care, he enjoyed it. A force his veins thickened. His skin grew into a form insignificant. Blue plates immersed on his thighs and calves. His face swelled, but his master did not realize it. Besides, he rambled, bloomed singing songs of his own. Trying to spread his soap on her belly. Later his hands trembled, his eyes reddened. The heat increased in proportion. Viral globes swelled everywhere. His jugular crashed, began gently to imprison her breathing. But the man still humming his favorite tunes, he is more aware of nothing, his life was dying before our eyes. He just wanted to grow, go somewhere else, be free of his chains burning that pulled him over twenty years. His best time was disappearing under their feet, the descent was gathering, and the prospect made his mind to all binding Ideas for the Future.
Ten minutes later, his body strewn on the bottom of the tub. The flow of water gently declined. Blood mingled with the stream. The man would die of asphyxia.
Wednesday 8 hours.
That evening Sarrey not sleep with Gaëlle. He let her sleep. At eight o'clock he awoke, he also shook his wife. That morning, he wanted to bring it back to the command post, but she did not want to get up. The man showered, return it forced him to wake up. She forced herself, dressed painfully. Later she found him in the kitchen. In a disturbing mood she lunched without flinching. Her man, next, felt great, even happy. It chowing down a plate of baked beans from a glasshouse installed inside the same vessel. The girl just drank coffee. Ten minutes later they left the apartment. They walked along the corridors private emptier than ever, they crossed the secret room of the building and a few minutes later they found Sari and Karies in the room of General Staff.
The two men pondered over a map of the stars. The time seemed serious Sarrey sensed directly or worse.
- What happens now?
Sarrey settled. His wife copied. Sari replied.
- For the past four hours we capton no signals from the satellites of Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter. The bases on Europa and Ganymede do not emit anything either.
- This is normal! They have orders not to communicate. Predictable thing!
- Yes! For an hour, we no longer receive any communication from Mars. Nothing at all! No more frequency, more signal. General
never flinched. Cons by Gaëlle still amazes.
- And why?
- Nobody can understand!
From the beginning, Karies said nothing. This vigilant soldier without all these supernatural phenomena. To each his incongruous situation arose necessarily a specific technology demonstration. This stone trapped in the concrete room did not influence his mind. All could come from a mineral harder than diamond, and nothing else.
But Sari, these events reflected a similar very bad omen. A phenomenon was born within the solar system. A sort of magma approached more over the earth. Frequency. A vibration igneous.
Sari had to inform his superior, but this morning the man did not come alone, his wife accompanied him to the command center. So what was he to do? Tell all! He could wait. Let the woman go. But the event took on such a scale that nobody could ignore.
Wednesday 8 hours 15.
media constantly informed the president. Three screens of the smell permeated the land. The company, despite the events, do not panic. Several million people decided to leave the chance large cities. The sudden rush by the authorities, recalled the night before long weekends and major holidays. The biggest task of the police remained to watch the malls. Unexpected because this new population encouraged to disparate groups of neighborhoods to try to come to loot shops in town centers. But for the rest, nothing serious. Only hospitals noted an alarming increase in unexplained deaths. Ambulances reported their hourly batches of dead mortified. Scraps piled in the corridors, and along with the sharp cry and transcendent traveling companions. The last flight for a death elusive. A subject that journalists did not fail to note.
Generals Roberts, and Epton Palati settled quietly at the table of command. The three men hid in a secret mocking them. Their heavy responsibilities in the military high command prevented them from sleeping properly. Lack of sleep each were reflected on their faces unfriendly military. They read their files, dared to disturb the president. Epton got up again, sent a letter to the horse, sit back. In fact, the president understood that each party insidiously De Nemours expected to begin meeting. The man had just entered in the database, the security service to accompany the command center. The group remained in silence.
For now, only fleeting images of hospitals overrun by a mob in disarray frozen by the president. The image of his wife were in his mind. This morning he could not reach her by phone several communications antennae crashed without reason during the night. The city of Washington more strangely unresponsive. The void vanished, perhaps they disappeared into the maze. Perhaps the population was already falling into oblivion. Certain death demanding souls to walk straight ahead. An army of beadles forced to regroup scattered in rows. His wife, a laggard, the blank stare, suffering disgrace and destroyed by the open eyes to other perspectives.
Five minutes later De Nemours settled confront the generals. They awkwardly shook hands with President filed its records on the table within seconds, without conformity, it was necessary.
- Gentlemen. I hurried to join you for a well unfortunately you announce bad news. Another quite extraordinary. For six hours, more than thirty centers U.S. interception of frequency from space can not be functional. Earlier I spoke with the director of NASA, he told me that a problem of another kind came to immerse themselves in all electronic systems. Whether or around Jupiter on earth. NASA thinks that something unknown is closer to the earth. Perhaps a source of heat or radiation of some sort. A giant nebula much larger than our solar system, which is unfortunately impossible to measure. The argument
De Nemours ended there. Man had nothing to add, he could close his file and no go. The phenomenon reached all parts of the solar system, a power alien approached the earth, faceless and nameless. While the generals wanted more, but distrust human could answer. Measuring instruments remained paralyzed for the moment. Physicists and astronomers in recent years, had noticed nothing unusual in the sky, not a black hole appeared near the solar system and no comet should reach land. No probe has sensed an abnormal magnetic field, even in the region Jupiter. The three astronauts volunteers who left three years earlier in the direction of this planet gave signs of life every four hours, the latest news, the spacecraft's control panel confirmed an abnormality of the module and announced at the same time his future loss of control of any his system. Clearly he sent his greetings to his family. A sad duty.
No person in the group dared contradict De Nemours, they preferred to wait for the general Kost. The man had arrived, he informed him of the phenomenon. This general manager of the U.S. Army took his time. This sexagenarian climbed the corporate ladder in forty years, twenty two commando officer, he joined the General Staff to thirty years to interfere, like so many before him, at the rank of military force. He earned his appointments with his ability to tactical exercises reconstructed by computer programs that reproduce situations battles almost exact relation to reality. Became a general he distinguished himself by developing various contingency plans in case America had to quickly build new armaments in large numbers, as is the case was early in the second World War. His choice exercised by the council of war to the organization of national defense. No political criterion set him apart, and the president, choosing the sidelines already scored a few pages of history. His name should be compulsory in all dictionaries for the following year. His ascetic
mine brought nothing pleasing. He sat alongside the president. Previously he was talking to the commanding general of the Russian army. This brave man cools by corruption taught him, in a fluctuating English, attempted attack against jaw-dropping by Many problems of logistics and electronics. This soldier went to various cases of corruption and embezzlement referred to now the only force potentially valid against an enemy too confusing and too unnoticeable.
But did he really that America could do battle? General Kost had no magic balls in his possession. His advice offered to him just to send multiple nuclear dumps on the moon and goshawks, to simply remove the fox. But the risk was higher if the moon disintegrated or changed orbit. Probability many times called into question during the Chinese nuclear testing twenty years ago, and who also led all nations of the earth to take that risk as probable and feasible.
Then there was the final solution. The General took place precisely at the table and wanted to announce a massive attack and directly generating necessarily heavy casualties. But America no longer had proceeded from this way since the invasion of Normandy. Since then, the soldier's life became political conflict, and nothing else, but that day there was talk of humanity, taking face the threat of an unknown force and more powerful than the human race, so the nest must be prepared to lose the general cores and settle awkwardly on the throne of the king.
Wednesday 8 hours 30.
This little lady clothes, soon septuagenarian, still looked like this little girl who unpacked the steps of the college to move to the swings of the course. Images frequently returning to her grandmother's spirit. A confused memory fills stories of children, adolescents, young girls, married women, mothers and grandmothers. A life without stories, without hassles, a trip to the moon, a Cruise around the earth at more than one hundred kilometers of Everest and the day of his fifty years in orbit around the moon. Finally a common life, worthy of an American woman located mid - level of the social scale Western.
This morning she woke up quietly. Yesterday she was following the events in front of his television, his daughter phoned him during his dinner, at twenty-two hour she questioned her neighbor and she went to bed at midnight. She slept badly, got up at six hours and lit directly on television. But since no major new evidence had emerged, the war became silent, pictures came and went. Gloomy scenes like film sets that did not stop this lady to worry about death. Besides, she had never experienced war and his only concern lay with the fact that his children and grandchildren could possibly have problems.
At eight thirty she cleaned her apartment. The noise of his vacuum cleaner does not mind the sound of the television and the lady could remain suspended from his position while working. She breathed her living room, only a few crumbs of bread scattered on the ground. But nothing else really important. After she wanted to make a phone rag on his dresser but the smell was suddenly detained. A bitter smell may be coming from the kitchen. Perhaps the smell of smoke or smell of rotten, she did not know.
Firstly, the woman pressed to go into the oven and microwave, but these tools were not engaged. Then the woman began to find the cause of this misunderstanding. She searched the kitchen, then she looked towards the bathroom. But the smell does not disappear, instead became increasingly nauseous, almost unbearable. The woman, after the bathroom, climbed to the first, opened all the rooms, but still nothing, so she returned to the kitchen and began to empty the trash. She hurried, became nervous, something rotting and its atmosphere she could only see.
few minutes later she came out of his house, move the bag from his home. For her, the cause was not from the bag, because the more she moved away the smell dissipated. Taste bitter and unbearable, an evil bastard.
In the street, she realized that some neighbors were preparing to move. Yet people calm, never panics. A day like no other, an unforgettable day for people everywhere swarming, hurrying to leave the big city. More sky animated intense activity. Private planes seem to leave the land to protect themselves from nuclear explosions, lives of broken families, not an event worthy of a human hegemony, with each family comprising father protecting his family at the cost of efforts over a lifetime. A huge slump that now appeared in front of her. A sweet story becomes cruel.
The grandmother remained sealed against the backdrop for a few minutes she counted the number of neighbors wanting to leave his neighborhood, and finally, perhaps a little relieved of that dismal smell, she expected to return home. But from the very start, the improper brushing against her body returned quickly. A feeling unworthy, from home, perhaps out of nowhere or elsewhere, continued to importune. One smells that we can not grasp and find its source. Manure or other materials no longer exist on this planet.
At first, she counted to force the passage. Alone in his garden and ignore all, she labored to move forward and find his feet. The time seemed very long to get to his door. She pressed her nose with his fingers, but still, the smell came over though. Later she regained his room. There, the smell turned into a cauldron unseemly and distasteful. The whole room became the scene of a huge deception, the setting for a story awkwardly adapted. Silence reigned true, but so strong compression surpassed everything else. Incredible heat, impossible to achieve for this little lady had known that the charm of happiness throughout his life.
Wednesday 8 hours 45.
Jackie cried for almost half an hour. Her husband had just left. This phone awaited the couple had arrived at five o'clock in the morning. A duty officer Oliver and mobilized the same day that citizen way again became a soldier. The Army sought his presence and under the circumstances, no apology could not be taken into consideration by the General Staff of the U.S. Air Force. Towards
eight hours, a National Guard truck was passing the gate of his plot. A military police officer was in the front seat. When Oliver appeared, the man left the vehicle. Faced with the officer, he asked him to sign the release. Oliver was still holding his wife in his arms. She cried, his arms dangling, hung down his back. This woman once lost so much in less than a day, all his passion and become. Her husband signed his order, with eight hours seven minutes and forty four seconds, the electronic notebook transcribed one more pawn in the international army.
- Believe - you think the school will we wait? The boom in the heart
name was Lisa, the girl next door. A small red head, looks and frivolous. A cute little well-educated person with an open mind allowing it to easily pass for older than her age. While she was waiting for Jackie's back, as in everyday life, to the steps of his school, but from the top of his ten years in spite of his goodness, not yet imagined in what situation humanity was. The specter of World War III is fast approaching and Jackie still had to go to work. Once she had learned that during WWII, women redoubled their efforts to increase industrial productivity of the nation and not a moment she imagined already in command of a soldering iron, as these women she had had the privilege to see immortalized on archive footage of WWII.
The way to school lent itself that day, the worst discovery that a girl could imagine. In fact people either preparing to leave their homes by piling up good to the bottom of their valves or be amenable to strengthen their buildings by sealing off all entrances with planks of wood cheap. A headlong rush as improbable and Jackie thought, unnecessary.
Certainly people do not panicking yet, but we felt them in this confusion that is in itself a people about to undergo some difficult days. Neighbors leaving their homes for so-called take refuge in the mountains and other patients the eye of the storm by imagining scenarios improbable and unrealistic. A fever increases to measure and anxieties involved. On the eve of the Apocalypse incidentally.
Eight hundred yards away, the school had too quiet. In front of the entrance, the children became scarce. Despite the turmoil, the property does not close and pledged themselves to give the teachers as being accustomed to. A persistent tension certainly the afflicted, contracted their usual expressions, but apart from some parents fear for the safety of their cherubs, clinching the overall atmosphere in maintaining order and discipline established.
- See you time.
- A while ago my girl. They
s'embrasèrent as if they were on a train platform and Jackie gave little to her mistress. A farewell and the woman quickly found himself alone facing the city and its usual pace binding.
Opposite, the buildings were closing, the population density in the street, moving forward, but usually, the woman took pleasure in observing life, but that day, his morale was clinging to a thread and it does thought not much apart from the slump that loomed ahead. A dark clear, shrill, swirling around him like a phantom, a steady stream of indulgence. An immeasurable ugliness, assigning people to live, to submission, by defining this measure, the contours of individual freedom.
Fifteen minutes later the woman came on the pavement of the pedestrian zone. His employer was managing rental properties, a brokerage firm employing thirty people in premises located on the twentieth floor of a tower in downtown. The woman was working in that place for two years as secretary accountant. She was happy there. Several colleagues also became his friends and his confidantes. Lasting relationships it sought to obtain to make the environment more pleasant. A good number of colleagues, but also a woman she soon came his friend and confidante. This woman named Virginia, a pretty brunette with long beautiful blue eyes.
- You do not want the form!
His fearful look, shone a pale and tasteless humor. But his colleague, despite its voluntary character, did not remain a dupe, she knew the misfortune that fell upon his country and still looking for excitement with his favorite colleague.
- I'm actually not very well this morning. I do not produce much. The woman settled in
face of an eternal bachelor, the floor opened and a deepened sense concerning the proper etiquette in the workplace. She raised her nose a moment of her plasma.
- I know your husband!
Wednesday 9 hours.
In outer space, a shower came back to a cloud droplet frivolous, stagnant or spinning in a direction commanded by small fans built into the walls. Some systems, rustic, with four injectors coarse willing to face level, offered little precarious, for cons, the new generation of shower, best studied by the manufacturers offered a service more comfortable and much more enjoyable. Thirty injectors surrounded the person in laminar tube and kept in it a constant humidity and total.
The girl liked the water vapor. She could stay there for hours, leaving vacant his mind to other thoughts. Taking effect enjoyed by a large number of lunatics. Head elsewhere and the free spirit, a tendency for absorbing the queen of March, the daughter of a commoner and a convict. The companion of man's most powerful and richest of the planet. The Left Hand of Sarrey, the liberator, the winner of land and the mentor an entire generation of citizens eager for a bright future in the fortune and glory. Hero.
- You take your foot?
Sari had opened the door, a cloud of evaporated water in the room. The strong condensation on the windows, indicating a presence in the tube. Gaëlle heat creeper which took pleasure to imbibe.
- You risk your life by coming here, you can be filmed.
Despite the extreme environment to himself, the man did not hesitate to enter the apartments of the President. He even allowed to call his girlfriend in the shower. A flower indeed naked, but still not bothered by the way the second man in power.
Being, despite his wet clothes, grabbed the young woman and embraced her vigorously pressed his chest against a body without resistance. The habit of a common household, a regular presence. But a relaxed certainly bode well for the circumstances and situation of the place. A
love almost flawless, a thousand miles from here, a first meeting in a bar when she had just turned seventeen years and he, handsome leading man, a figure already noticed in the parliament. A prominent place that captivates the young woman quickly. He took her to his apartment that evening and did not leave, so to speak. Although they loved and appreciated above all, the unseemly position of eternal lovers. A set of pearly evasions and false pretenses that would have Sarrey wind. A common story almost to a man whose love relegated to second place. A life in this fiercely denied this inexhaustible fuel, contempt, hatred, war and love.
- Thou hast spoken to him? Sari
grumbled that painful whisper. But the girl did not care passionately, no sarcasm at that moment, could interrupt this path traced by a tightrope Sarrey which had built the foundations. Sari, despite his high social position in society, still holding the second part to Gaëlle, and the woman did not regret his choice and agreed. Power prevailed and another dimension was about to arise in the course of the muse of government.
- Do not worry! Do not be afraid! His pretense of innocence
embellished his goodness. The more the world was collapsing his most able to expand.
Daniel Gindraux, 2006, Réact2100, 34 hours.
