The Divine Sedition [Complete]

Chapter 17 Alone in the Dark.

Adina, the twin sister of Jeshua, was wandering around in the dark maintenance tunnels under Eden. She had lost her memory in her psionic blast showdown with Abraham Goldstein a week earlier, and after falling off the cliff down into the tunnels, she had found no way out. She had tried to climb up the ladder that was attached to the wall, but for some reason, the sun itself had tried to kill her with a laser beam. It had narrowly missed and instead hit the ladder’s attachment making it melt and drop down to the bottom of the tunnels with her falling as well. It had been a 20-meter fall, but due to the low gravity on Eden, the fall had left her unscathed.  With the ladder to the top dislodged, there was no way for Adina to reach the surface from this entrance and regardless, she felt no desire to return there with the sun out to kill her.

Instead, she hid in the darkness feeding of the wild mushrooms that grew there. She was alone in the dark, and she was filled with terror as her angel chip was still connected to her brain and she could again experience the fright and terrors of the people of Eden on the surface, since the death of their god Abraham. Yet her amnesia made her unable to understand what was happening.

The fear and horror of being in total darkness for weeks on end drove Adina insane, and she was sitting in a corner wagging back and forth, mumbling incoherent nonsense, until one day, an event up on the surface triggered the return of her memories: Keila’s speech to the people on Eden!