Welcome to Six Sentence Sunday! Once again I am presenting a snippet from the last volume of my trilogy, working title War’s End. Coralie has suddenly found herself and her baby in a place completely strange to her, but which she has deduced is a forest. This follows on directly from last week’s snippet.
Where were the others? Was it as hot and steamy as she thought it was, or was that part of the disorientation she felt?
She listened. Wherever she was, it was far from quiet, but the sounds were so unfamiliar she could hardly name them, let alone identify them. There were clicks, buzzes, and various tapping and rustling sounds, but mixed in with them were things that sounded appallingly like screams and sobbing, but far too high or low for anything she knew. One whine seemed to be associated with a tiny flying mote that kept diving at her face.
Where is she? Where are the others? Are she and the baby completely alone?
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Eeek, mosquitos! It occurs to me that I have been making the assumption that Coralie and her baby are human, but it’s possible that they are not. Either way I like the way you are describing the scene from the point of view of her unfamiliarity with it.
Not mosquitoes, more like no-see-ums but really neither. Coralie’s human, the baby’s father is half human.
This is so tense. Just reading what she was hearing and thinking made me want to curl up in a little ball. Very well done six!
Good, that’s what I’m trying for.
Nice! Sounds intense 🙂
She’s trying to use all of her senses to make sense of her surroundings.
Very intriguing. Love moms in scifi–conflict is much deeper when the welfare of the children you love is involved.
And this baby is more than she seems.
Good description of her surroundings, Sue Ann. 🙂
Thanks. Trying to see through her eyes, and she’s only know a planet terraformd with a planned ecology.
Disturbingly vivid! Her distress came through so clearly.
Good, that was what I was trying for.
I bet that is scary to be in an unfamiliar environment and hear mysterious noises (unidentifiable). This snippet freaked me out!!
Well, she’s about to hear something familiar. Come back next week.
Protective mama in a sci fi 🙂 freaky 6!!!
Why not?
This is great. I love it.
Coralie doesn’t, but then characters never appreciate what authors do to them.
Really great scene – I feel like I’m immersed there with her.
Thank you. That’s what I was trying for.
Yikes! My skin is crawling! Now I’m really frightened for her! 🙂
Think I ought to try to publish this one?
Wonderful description! Great six 😀
Thanks. Coralie has grown up in a nomad culture, so she isn’t as panicked as a city girl might be.