EVE Fiction

"If a lesser-god took your voice for a price, would you know him as a trickster?"

The Teacher Chapter One: Speaking to Oracles

Wrapping up my Novella, "The Teacher".

Saving a chapter up for the contest, but wondering how other writers have staged dramatic encounters around their ships. Specifically, how do players undock from the cargohold of a ship when in one and "on the go"? I can see how the pod interfaces with the captains quarters in the game.

Kaleb is a child who has gone through The Teacher, a device not designed to accelerate the maturation process from childhood, but to hone reflexes, characteristics, and “teach one who they really are” as the lead researcher named Arus puts it. Time is perceived as taking longer to pass from A to B while in the machine.

The conflict of the story centres around Kaleb’s morally/emotionally driven efforts to oppose Arus while protecting his family and contacting the Jove, while Arus attempts to make ambitious use of the machine on the laboratory offspring and accelerate the maturation process radically by placing them in The Teacher for a long period.

The story is resolved when Kaleb takes the place of a sibling and enters The Teacher in order to preserve the device and help him find the Jove, but the machine changes his decision and he instead kills the researcher who created him, and departs to search for the faction in the company of his cousin, Pythia, now heavily modified by the The Teacher, and the station nurse, Janice, who quite likely believes Kaleb a murderer for killing Arus permanently.

Write dangerously,

Johnny.