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Chapter 26 by Genericc616 Genericc616

Which of the two strangers are around when you wake?

Both Wolf and Lilly, and does you head hurt

You slowly come to, and feel a cool breeze over your face, and the gentle whirring of a ventilator fan, you slowly open your eyes as the pale light fills your eyes, you immediately shield yourself with your arms, as the light burns your eyes, and sets of a throbbing pain in your skull, as you become aware of you intense headache, as you let out a groan of agony as you roll onto your side. You hear two sets of footsteps approach you as you slowly look up and make out a set of pale legs and a black skirt, with purple patterns mixed in, and a set of study looking trousers with webbing and straps for holding equipment on them, before again you shield your eyes and let out a pained moan, as you feel as if your brain is trying to burst free of your skull.

"Here drink this, it will help with the pain." The male voice says as a large hand takes a hold of yours and maneuvers your fingers to grasp a hold of some kind of large flask, maybe a canteen, not that you are in any fit state to wonder this, as the hand slowly move the flask to your lips and helps you tip back the liquid into your mouth. Normally you'd object, but between the pain and the dryness in your mouth, a drink does seem appealing, regardless of what might be inside the drink, however the cool liquid soothes your mouth and throat as you gulp down the contents, which as far as you can tell is water, there is a slight medicinal taste, but it doesn't seem to taste unpleasant. "It's got a mild painkiller in it, but it's plain water with a hint of some fruits for nutrition, in case you were wondering if we'd poisoned you." The gruff voice says trying it's best to sound reassuring, which you can detect is something the man is unused to.

"Jeez Wolf, I'm sure she wasn't even worried about being poisoned until now, not everyone is as paranoid as you are." The soft female voice says, her voice like a soothing song to your ears, as your head finally begins to calm, as the storm raging inside your skull seems to finally come to a close. "How are you feeling sweetie, are you still in pain?" The soft voice says as you feel a soft hand touch yours and gently massages your hand.

"I think I'm feeling better now." You say in a labored voice as you begin to slowly open your eyes again, and see a silhouette of two people as your eyes slowly adjust to the light, as you blink a few times, and look down to the hand on your hand, and see that is a purple color, which you remark is strange, and your slowly look back up to the two strangers as your eyes finally adjust. You see a tall man tower above you in your propped up position on the sofa, the skin that isn't obscured beneath the heavy padded looking armor he is clad in is, a golden brown of someone who has spent a great deal of time outdoors, his right arm is thick with muscles as you see see that the man is in a very fit state. You gather from his stance and his difficulty with conveying empathy earlier give you the impression that he must be some sort of warrior not to dissimilar to Colonel, except all his war wounds seem to be in his left arm, as his face seems remarkably handsome, and lacks scars or any other form of damage, where as his left arm from the shoulder down is seemingly metal, and judging from the shape of it, and it's lack of muscles would lead you believe that it is a cybernetic replacement. The mans face seems stern yet somehow still appealing, as his brown eyes look down at your as he rubs his short wavy black hair with his right arm.

"Glad to hear it, you had a reaction as bad as Wolf over there, so I was worried you might be worse off, as you're not quite as tough as my friend over there. The name is Lilly by the way." Says the soft feminine voice, which belongs to Lilly, as the purple hand moves off your hand, and you look up at the owner, and see and incredible sight, as you look at the purple beauty in front of you. Her skin color isn't the only unusual thing about Lilly as you look up into her red eyes as she smiles down at you with her soft face, her lips coated in a black lipstick, which is the same color of her outfit, which is an incredibly revealing dress, with two thin straps covering her generous perky C cupped boobs, with a lot of her thing supple body on show, with a tight pair of black leggings covering her long shapely legs, and a cute pair of black finger-less gloves, of a very soft looking material covering most of her lower arms. Finally her hair is a striking deep blue color with a black ribbon tied into it, from her outfit you'd assume that Lilly was some form of exotic dancer or maybe a very high class escort, but with a lack of need for either of those professions on this planet.

"Thanks I'm Vallaria, I was actually here to find you Lilly, but the last thing I remember was your voice, and mine talking about someone I have no memory of, but talking of them as if I knew them intimately." You say as you look into the red eyes of Lilly as she smiles down at you with, and you find your head starting to ache again, as you recall the last details before you woke up here.

"Figures." Wolf scoffs as he turns back and walks over to a seat across from the sofa, as Lilly looks back at him with a scowl on her cute face, making the expression much less threatening, not that a impressive mass like Wolf would find anything from Lilly intimidating, he still shakes he head before apologizing to Lilly. "Sorry Lil, we have a guest, and I'll leave you to explain your thing." Wolf says as he unholsters a large gun from his holster and places it down on a table and expertly disassembles it and begins to clean the parts.

"Sorry about Wolf, as you can see we're a bit of an odd couple, but we are able to help each other out, so we stick together." Lilly says as she settles herself down on the arm of the sofa next to you, as you look up into her soft face.

"Couple?" You say failing to hide the disappointment in your voice, as Lilly covers her mouth as she holds back the urge to burst out laughing.

"Oh no not like that, I mean he's handsome enough, but keeps turning me down, so now I stopped asking." Lilly says with a smile as she looks down at you, and adjusts the ribbon in her long blue hair. "Anyway, try not to think to much about before you woke up, otherwise you'll give yourself another headache or worse, pass out again." Lilly says as she runs her soft fingers over your face and brushes some of your long red hair out of your eyes.

"I'll try but what the hell happened?" You as as you feel soothed by Lilly's soft touch.

"Right where to start...... OK so as you can see, I'm not like you average person, but aside from my stunning and exotic good looks, among other talents, I have a few useful and unusual gifts, one such gift I was in the middle of performing, and that's what you walked into." Lilly begins as you try and focus on her words, as you find your eyes wondering to her body. "In the simplest way I can explain it, I'm able to mediate and project what I've called a waking dream, In which I can access the memories and events of someones life from the many parallel versions of them, it can also work on places but people are easier, but in any case I try and view their lives in order to try and get a read on who they are, to see how they might react. It's more complicated than that, but it gives good insight into people but as its a parallel version it's not always accurate, as I can't control what version of that person I'll bring forth." Lilly says as you try and wrap you're head around what she's telling you. Lilly see's the confusion on your face and decides a practical demonstration might help out.

As she takes out a small electronic lock from the table behind her and then holds it in her left hand and mutters some soft words, that are almost inaudible to you, but are comprised of no language you've heard. Soon an phantom image comes into view just in front of the lock where you see a hand press the combination, and the lock chimes and turns green, the lock itself looks identical to the one below the image even down to the serial number on its side. You then look down at the lock and press the same combination only to have it flash red at you, as you look up the image and the back to Lilly, who smiles at you.

"As I said it's not always accurate, as there are many factors that can differ between parallels, from major differences, to small insignificant ones, such as the combination for this lock being different." Lilly says with a smile as she waves her hand and the phantom image dissipates into a wisp of smoke. "So what you walked into earlier was a much bigger version of that, where you yourself got caught up into the illusion of the world I was looking into, one where a different path was taken, and of course your mind tried to combine the memories, and with all the differences both big and small, well it's not something the human brain can process." Lilly says as she runs her hands through your long soft red hair as she massages your head through your hair.

"Oh, so you have no idea about who that Eva person was I was talking to you about then?" You ask as you head throbs as you recall some details of the waking dream.

"Sorry, but I was interacting with my own bit, the version of me you ran into was likely that worlds me, possibly drawn to you as you were seeking me out, and It seems as though In that world I inhabited here. So no clue who this Eva is I'm afraid, but then that just makes two of us." Lilly says with a smile as she continues to massage your head. You moan in pleasure as the feeling is very soothing considering your earlier ordeal with the Colonel, and passing out, and now this insane concept of parallel worlds and Lilly being able to peer between them to try and gain insight into people and places. "So what brings you to this place anyway?" Lilly asks as she stands up and offers a hand to you to help you to your feet.

"Oh right, I was given a job by the Colonel of the local Mercs in charge to investigate the activities of the Omni group, and said that you were brought here by one of their senior people, before leaving as you had no interest in their goals." You say as you get to your feet and slowly get used to walking as it appears you've been out a while.

"So that's the cover that Grimey's going with these days, I had wondered if he had sent you to help." Wolf chuckles to himself as he continues to polish the weapon parts to a mirror sheen, as Lilly helps you along over to where Wolf is sat. "Well he's sort of truthful, you see before I quit and left our good Colonel in charge I was looking into the Omni Group, but as I got continually stonewalled by my superiors and missions kept getting scrutinized, I decided to step down, and take matters into my own hands, one of my first missions was liberating our friend Lilly here from those sick freaks." Wolf says with a smile on his face as he stands up to his full height of 6'4 as he towers over you're impressive stature. "So tell me how's he justifying this mission to his superiors?" Wolf asks as he he passes you a canteen which you assume was the one you drank from earlier.

"He said that he'd discovered a pocket of mysterious rock, that he said was called void stone, and that the Omni group set up shop on top of it." You say as you take the canteen, and examine the rugged and scarred flask, before taking a long drink from it.

"Figures, he'd peddle that weird shit, with the promise of vast riches, no clue what that crap is, but it seems inert to most things, and aside from the creepy presence you get from looking at it, it doesn't seem to hold any useful properties. In any case I'd be glad to have some assistance getting those people off this planet, were you given any Intel that could help?" Wolf asks as he smiles at you, which you find odd, but it seems a cheerful look suits his face, as you see laughter lines in his cheeks, which make you wonder what he's been through. You hand over the tablet with Colonels Grimes Intel on it, and once it is in Wolf's hands the tablet chimes and a lot more Intel appears on screen. Wolf looks through it, and smiles to himself as he swipes his hands across the screen as he quickly reads through the Intel. "Well then looks like there's a lot of good stuff in here, and we got a few promising leads, a party, and some outposts to infiltrate. The way I see it it's better we split into two teams, with no prizes for guessing which of us two is better suited for the two roles, but you Vallaria could either come with me, or go with Lilly, I'm sure you'll be helpful to either of us, but we should be more than capable, but an extra pair of eyes and ears you know." Wolf says as he looks up to you as Lilly turns and face you.

"Hmmmm crawling in a sweaty jungle with Wolf, or rubbing elbows with some wealthy nutjobs with my fine arm around yours, hmmmmm tough call Wolf." Lilly says with a mischievous grin.

"Well maybe I need her to make sure you don't get drunk off your ass at the party." Wolf says with a smile on his face, as he place the tablet down on the table. " Besides I'm told I've got those ruggedly handsome qualities that some girls love." Wolf says with a mischievous grin of his own.

"Well I can't argue that, but still party over sweaty Jungle, it's not a tough contest, also I'll have you know I'm old enough to drink, and I'm capable of holding my ****." Lilly says as she puts her arm over your shoulder.

"You might be 21 but just because a parallel version of you can drink with the best, doesn't mean you'll be able to." Wolf says as he begins to fill up a backpack with some supplies lying scattered beneath the table his dismantled weapon is sitting on.

Party with lilly, or up close and personal with Wolf?

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