The Spaces in Between by Chase Henderson Read Free Book Online Page B

indecipherable tongues, and truly was beyond description. Or more accurate would not keep a shape long enough to be described. In one moment it could be a writhing mass of tentacles and then the next a writhing mass of puppies. The only real repeating features were the writhing and the mass.
    It turned and screamed something that could not be comprehended by human ears and lashed at Cameron with its tentacles. He snatched the tentacles flying at him and struck the spirit at the highest concentration of tentacles. It was launched a few feet away from him - aside from having to wear the space suit there were huge advantages to being a living human in the spirit realms.
    A chain materialized in Cameron’s hands and pierced the spirit through the center. He recited the words of power and binding over the spirit. It thrashed and changed shape to an immense primordial lobster. The shell and body were made of a permeable jelly, but the claws felt like rocks crushing down upon Cameron.
    If Cameron and his armor weren’t a hundred-fold stronger in the spiritual realms it might have actually hurt. Cameron slipped the flintlock out of his belt. Each immense shell it fired contained a pocket dimension holding a droplet of antimatter. When Cameron pulls the trigger the antimatter annihilates. It’s like watching an H-bomb going through a funnel.
    Cameron brushed himself off and made a “do you want to help me with this gesture” at Nomerac. He seemed disinterested. Cameron picked up the charred spirit and then threw it over his shoulder.
    “At least take me to Adam’s palace.”
     
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    The abandoned looking castle in the most isolated location of Adam’s realm was his own. Unlike Lilith he was completely disinterested in his kingdom. Adam had absolutely no intentions of ever holding court with the various nature spirits and Pagan gods that inhabited his realm. He used his mastery of the Arts Unseen bestowed on him by the Forbidden Fruit in order to gain power in hopes of impressing God. Over the millennia Adam grew immortal and incorporeal so he descended to the Underworld.
    The castle was barren and would be in horrible disrepair if things here actually needed to be repaired. Cameron found Adam sitting in the middle of the floor locked in meditation. He was in every way the perfect man at least physically, but to assume that the first being was actually human is a major hubris. Adam and Lilith were the archetypes for the first man and woman for any species.
    The story was always the same, too. Lilith refused to lie under him and Adam refused to view her as an equal. She ate the Fruit and left, and after two more wives God got fed up with Adam. While Cameron was an extraordinary human he was still a human regardless. So in this scenario Adam was also human.
    “I slew a monster in your realm,” Cameron said and definitely threw it at Adam’s feet. “It’s customary for the King to bestow the Knight a reward.”
    “It’s not dead and you can’t control it, because it lies outside of God’s plan.” Adam didn’t open his eyes. “Just like you, Blasphemer. It will only be a matter of time before Creation puts you back in your place so savor these moments, because you’ve made a lot of enemies.”
    “Or so you keep saying.” Cameron put another dosage of antimatter to the disease spirit. “You know what I want Adam, and I’ll take this thing off your hands if you help me.”
    “Do you think I care about these pissant Pagan spirits?” Adam replied, “They are trash in the eyes of my God. I try to stay out of their business, but they keep insisting that I am their king.” Three failed marriages and one estranged creator had made Adam very cynical. His first choose suffering and death over an eternity with him. He left the second because watching her creation disgusted him so much. The third used her knowledge from the Forbidden Fruit to regain the relationship with God that he used to have.
    “I saw Lilith on the