Divert the Danger From the Earth

Divert the Danger From the Earth

Norma turned her attention to the calculations she had been working on just prior to the explosion in the Cloud and birth of the sphere.

She called up the program she had written to create a suppression beam. Half of the emitters in the cockpit didn’t work, and it took her over a minute to find a portable field emitter, which she stationed as near as she dared to the core. With shaking hands she coded the beam.

Her initial intent was only to stop the sphere’s progress, but now Norma realized, she had to do more than that. No one, least of all she, had understood the Cloud’s most destructive weapons were the Cloud itself. The small sphere approaching contained a quantity of water sufficient to destroy the ship. Her job now was not only to contain the sphere but to alter harmonies of the sphere and the energy shell surrounding and divert it from the Earth.

(Excerpt from The Rain, the world acclaimed novel by Elena and George B.)

Norma against the most destructive weapon, © Megan Jorgensen (Elena)