Chapter 7

STRATEGIST 

I appeared at an abandoned warehouse in the middle of nowhere with Eli beside me. This time, although his face was pale, he wasn't throwing up.

Eli looked around, “this is where the daughter of the governor stays?” He asked with a smirk,

“Of course not. This is an abandoned warehouse. I never thought I would get the coordinates right.”

“What are we doing here?” Eli asked as we both walked forward. I pushed the door open and revealed the inside of the warehouse. It could only be described as vast. It was very large.

“This,...this is where you are going to work for the next twenty four hours. It will be pretty hectic.”

“What is it I'm supposed to do? The place is empty.”

I reached out and shapes began to take form. In the blink of an eye, everything that was in my dimensional storage appears in the warehouse. I've only managed to fill up less than one tenth of it hence the warehouse could contain it all.

“Woah!” Eli exclaimed. He looked impressed. “I thought you were exaggerating when you said your dimensional storage was as large as a city!”

“This isn't even up to a tenth of it. I need you to take inventory of everything here and make a list of what I should gather before it's too late. I would have done it myself but I don't have time, and you are better suited for things like this.”

“But I don't know how the apocalypse is like except from what I visualised from what you told me.” Eli stated. I paused for a moment to organise my thoughts.

“In the future, everything was a waste. Humanity couldn't produce anything and this was why we went to war against eachother. I plan on building a haven, a place that will be the pioneer for humanitys survival.” I looked at Eli and smiled, “this is just an idea, and I'm counting in you to flesh it out. But before you can do that, we need to make sure that we have whatever we might need. If my storage is the size of a city, then let's make sure we build a city.”

“That sure is a grand dream.” Eli chuckled but I could see the excitement in his eyes.

“Scared?” I taunted,

“In your dreams.” Eli laughed. “Is this why you went after Jason? I mean, apart from the fact that he was your best friend, or will he your best friend.”

“Yes. People think you need a lab full of top class scientists to bring back life to the apocalypse, I think I only need three brilliant minds. Jason, the biologists, Laramie, the strategists and the person with the most brilliant mind, you, Elias.”

I smiled as a grin spread across Elias face, it was so wide I thought his mouth might just slack.

I walked forward and picked up a two way radio like the one I gave Jason. “Take one too, if anything happen, use this to contact me, it's faster. I'll be back as soon as possible with the other two.” I said before stepping out of the dimension and heading for the governors house.

***

Dimensional travel was just as the skill sounded, traveling through dimensions. I also don't know too much about it, space is a very complex thing to understand, but I understood a few things, enough to let me use the skill with ease.

There are many dimensions and within these dimensions are other dimensions. We currently exist in the third dimension but in this dimension, there are sub-dimensions. Travelling through dimensions is similar to travelling in the real world, but at the same time different.

The reason why it is similar is because just like in the real world, we move; front, back, left and right, up and down. But the reason why it is different is because of two major reasons. Firstly, there is no true sense of direction, instead, only layers of dimensions placed untop eachother, forming a complex kaleidoscope of dimensions within the third dimension.

And secondly, things like distance, time and other fundamental laws work differently in this kaleidoscope. Because multiple sub dimensions are layered on top of the other, these laws are also layered, cancelling eachother out while also fusing to become strange incomplete laws.

This is why whenever I travel through dimension, I don't only need the coordinates. If I know the general location of a place, I can use my intuition to guide me there. The more acute it is, the better and closer to the place I will appear. Which is why if I don't know the place too well, I might have to try multiple times or use more mental energy to guide myself, resulting in delayed appearance or exhaustion.

For this, it was the former. It wasn't only after almost a minute before I stepped out of the kaleidoscope and into the true world. I had to stay in longer because this was the governors home. If I appeared before the guard, I'm sure they will attack first and ask questions later.

Obviously I wasn't scared of that, but I didn't want to raised an alarm. I looked around, I was currently in a room and from the floral scents, I could tell I was in the right place.

Just in front if me was a balcony and I found see a figure standing there. I walked forward and the moment I got to the doorway, the shadow moved. One moment I was obscured by the curtain and the next, I was in the floor with a lady sitting on me, pinning my hand to the ground.

It was Laramie.

“Who are you?” She asked, but I was too stunned to reply. Her long curly brown hair, amber eyes that were currently heavy with sadness and slightly freckled face brought back memories of a once bleak future.

“Answer me or I'll call the security.” Laramie demanded once again. I knew she wasn't bluffing, and although I would have been able to stop her, I was here to plant a good seed, not make her think I was hostile.

But I didn't think, I couldn't think of anything as I saw her face, so I blurted out the first thing that came to mind.

“Your father,... He's dying isn't he?”