Free Dracon: A Scifi Alien Romance (Rebel Lords Book 1) by Kylie Gold

glass, but it was smoothed out. Was this what he used to open the cabinets somehow? In my time spent walking around the front portion of his hut, I had touched the lapis blue covers, but they were solid. And I watched him countless times reach through it to grab something from within. It didn’t seem possible, honestly. The blue walls were solid…
    The ring was much wider than any of my fingers, but I had to try it. Looking around the room, I saw a large armoire with the lapis blue door covering it. Walking over to it, I slid the ring onto my middle finger and pressed my ring and index finger to it in order to keep it from slipping off. Hesitantly, I reached towards the armoire, feeling as though it wasn’t going to work. But, with my hand in a fist and ring jutting out, the face of the ring touched to the blue first. Just around the ring, a perfect circle parted to where I could see into the armoire. With wide eyes, my hand slowly went through the hole, the blue parting further and further as my hand stuck in. It was like the lapis material turned into a liquid or something when the ring went to touch it. How did it work like that? How could it go from solid to parting just from having a ring on my finger? My eyes were wide with amazement, moving my hand all around, watching as it parted from my movements. Within the armoire, something caught my eye, but I couldn’t quite make it out. I didn’t want to just go through his things… I was just curious as to how the storage worked. But curiosity had me in a vice grip. I slowly turned my head to look at the bed; Dracon was still asleep. It wouldn’t hurt to just look at one thing, right?
    That was all the convincing I apparently had to do. My hand reached further into the cabinet and grabbed what felt like a handle. Pulling it from the storage, I noticed it was one of the traditionally styled swords I had seen some of the other Navani using. It was puzzling to know that a tribe like themselves had harvested energy like lasers to use as weapons, but some still used traditional blades. Laying it flat on my hands before I began to pull it from the sheath. The blade was a dazzling silver and was long and razor sharp just as I had always seen swords. However, his had some sort of writing scorched down the middle of the blade; I assumed it was Navanian. And just behind the writing was a thin blue line that was glowing. What was all this blue stuff? Everything seemed to be blue. The laser weapons, the lights, the armor which coated the cabinets—heck, even the grass was blue. What exactly were they harvesting to give everything that glow? Was it some sort of power source? It had to be if it was in their laser weapons and lights… But what about in that sword, and the armored cabinets? Putting the blade back in the leather sheath, using my hand with the ring to open the cabinet, I placed it back.
    When I went to withdraw my hand, I noticed a small metallic black box on one of the other shelves. I reached for it and went to pick it up only to be completely surprised at just how heavy it was. It wasn’t as if it was so heavy I couldn’t pick it up. I could, it was just heavier than I anticipated. Pulling it down from the shelf, my eyes studied the little device. It wasn’t like anything I had seen any of the people of the tribe use. It was solid black except for one side of the cube, that side being a dark silver color. Wat in the world was this thing? My fingertips grazed over the silver surface; the material wasn’t hard, but it wasn’t liquid either. It was just a solid that seemed to be very close to being a liquid, the material seeming to be very responsive to movements. My mind was drawing a blank as to what that little heavy box could be used for. “I believe you have something that belongs to me,” a voice sounded from behind me, causing me to jump from fright. I looked back to find Dracon standing close to me, amusement shining in his eyes from having startled me.