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    The Rule of Lachesis - Book 1: Awakenings: The Rule of Lachesis, #1
    The Rule of Lachesis - Book 1: Awakenings: The Rule of Lachesis, #1
    The Rule of Lachesis - Book 1: Awakenings: The Rule of Lachesis, #1
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    The Rule of Lachesis - Book 1: Awakenings: The Rule of Lachesis, #1

    By Jacob Garcia

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    A crack team of scientists is hired on the sly by a billionaire to examine a fragment of a nanostructure material—origin unknown. A microbiologist, a particle physicist, and a neurosurgeon develop a specialized laboratory to analyze the material and try to fathom its mysteries, all the while under the watchful eye of the British government without their knowledge.

    The team discovers valuable information about the mysterious material, but in doing so—and in feeding it—they awaken something dreadful. Only after the death of their sponsor and the disappearance of their unique subject do they realize they are in far too deep and have only just begun to learn how to swim.

    They find out all too soon that no one else knows what they have on their hands either, and that they may be the only ones who understand it enough to stop it.  Little do they realize, however, that they have set into motion a chain of events that will awaken some of Humanity’s oldest nightmares and wildest dreams and the outcome will be as unpredictable and varied as the fabrications that manifest along the journey.

    Book 1: Awakenings is the first book in The Rule of Lachesis novelette series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJacob Garcia
    Release dateFeb 11, 2015
    ISBN9781507067550
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      The Rule of Lachesis - Book 1 - Jacob Garcia

      Prelude

      Pursued now to the limit of his strength, the fugitive vessel, fused with his pilot-mate Siclis, threw them in one desperate leap, homing in on a cluster of planets surrounding a tiny sun on the opposite side of the core. Deep in the Fabric: good chances of survival, and far. It was the last thought to his lifelong companion before flinging them all—his pilot-mate and her two sisters—to their final respite.

      Siclis's youngest sister, Magdis, had stolen the Rule of Lachesis, and its owner wanted it back. It had been broken in the process, and now each of them had a fragment. Fitting in many ways, he thought. Lachesis would eventually find them, but if he could buy could buy time to prepare... Siclis's sacrifice was grave. Pilot-mates bonded for life, and losing a mateship had killed the mate as often as left them mindless. But even he had agreed, reluctantly, that it was worth it, and that the Rule had been in the wrong hands. It was better for everything and everyone this way. Siclis's parents had agreed, knowing their colluding would lead to their deaths. The ship never questioned her decision, knowing what was being asked of him.

      He was feeble now, no longer capable of bending the Fabric, even of riding it. He began to burn, and their voices rose in terrible song as his descent shook the atmosphere, leaving a final trail to mark his passing. They departed in their own personal vessels, good for navigating inside smaller gravity wells, and watched his thunderous death .A great plume of black smoke, crackling with lightning, rose upon his impact, darkening the skies of the planet for long after.

      His corpus shattered into a thousand fragments, most of them dying off or losing their functions. Some parts remained, persisting but unaware; preserved accidentally or by dint of their extreme durability. Most of them, having been mated to Siclis for so long, could feel and hear Siclis still, and even pine for her, knowing she was near but could not feel them in return. It was, quite literally, maddening.

      After the skies cleared, his fragments felt their sadness at the loss of life his passing had caused; and later, their joy at the variety of life that returned; they fell in love with its beauty, and so did his remnants. So incredible was it, that soon it was as if nothing had happened, and there was even more life than before. Nothing fascinated them so much as watching the progress of apes and eventually humans, and the potential of human will and belief. Each loved the dexterous, clever bipeds in their own way, and it affected how they prepared. Each determined to use the quickly multiplying creatures to fight Lachesis, when she came.

      None of them foresaw what they would create; least of all, him.

      Magdis immediately went about with her fragment, making whatever took her fancy, as varied as the patterns that followed her passing. The humans feared them at first, but also drew inspiration to greatness from them. They named her fabrications, in whatever wondrous and awful forms they took, as magic. His remnants took it all in, sharing silently in the wonder.

      Fatmis waited and, having observed the nature of human belief after her younger sibling's decision, made more independent, sometimes vastly intelligent fabrications based upon human wants and fears. The humans came to call these, in all their manifestations through the ages, spirits, or for the more powerful ones, gods—and they became known as faith. Again, his fragments absorbed all they could, believing as much as they could.

      Siclis—whose bitterness at the loss of her mateship had never faded, instead burning like an ember in her core, seasoning her every deed and perception—watched the unpredictability of magic and the atrocities committed in the name of faith, and determined to use her fragment to improve upon the patterns her sisters had engendered. She allowed the Fabric to reveal

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