......She told them that Voltek's Peak was said to be haunted....
"That's why the Bird Folk were loathe to go up there. Something they called the Time Crystal was buried in the summit.It could create time or destroy it....Then about a year ago these strangers showed up.He claimed he was an archeologist.A hawk faced man with eyes of the dead.There was a monster with him.It looked like something out of a nightmare...They came in something that looked like a pyramid.It had a huge Eye in the center of it.It was alive.....It wasn't long after that the world changed.....Now he's in the City.He's set himself up as the King of the planet.King Zorrik."
"What happened to the Bird People,"the scientist asked her."I haven't seen a trace of them."
"They vanished right in front of me.Hell,the whole godamn world vanished for a second and then came back the way you see it now.It's this Zorrik character in the City.He found the Time Crystal of Voltek and now he's playing God."
"I am a man of science,"he told the woman."But what you've just told me is about as good as anything else I can come up with.If this Zorrik is responsible for all that's happened then he must be stopped somehow."
"He has an army at his beckoning.How do you think you can stop him?"
"With an army of my own,"he said."Can you get me in touch with anyone off world?"
"I know of such a person,"the woman said."He can get anything you want for a price.We will have to stop at Smittie's Bar.That's where they all hang out."
"What are you called? I am Captain Space,and my companion is Brail Collingsworth."
"You can call me Strelky,"she responded."After the planet of my birth.My family was murdered on Strelkor during the revolution and me and my father came here.He didn't live long.Losing my mom and my sister broke his will to survive.My mount here is my last tie with Strelkor."
She patted the reptile and it snuggled against her.
"His names Spritzer."
"I've got a dog back in my pad in Los Angeles,"Brail told her."He probably tore up the place by now.I hope he doesn't shit on the rug.He doesn't like to be left alone."
"You two aren't from this sector,are you?"Strelky asked."I've never seen people like you."
"No,my friend here is from a place called Earth.I'm from the same planet, only centuries earlier.We were forced down during that time fluctuation.It must have altered this planet at the same time as it struck the rest of the universe.The readings on my ship were astounding.If this is the work of a mythological Time Crystal and a megalomaniac then this a dire situation indeed."
Captain Space turned to look at the distant mountain with its mysterious light.
Strelky looked at the American.
"He talks weird."
"Yeah,he is weird,"Brail confided."But I trust him with my life."
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