by Shane Mason
‘Pee...on...the...ropes,’ Lexington shouted. ‘It will...loosen them!’
Melaleuca, Ari and Quixote concentrated on peeing as much as they could. Quixote went first.
‘Push against the wet ropes, Qui!’ Ari said. ‘See if you can prize a hand loose.’
Quixote tried, but he laughed so hard, he could not control himself.
Ari managed to soak the ropes from his waist down and started kicking and struggling, using his immense strength to loosen the ropes. Soon a considerable gap opened between his legs and the ropes. Enraged, he kicked and kicked, starting to break through the ropes. His leg ropes loosened, though the ones binding his torso tightened suddenly, squeezing more air out of him.
‘It’s...no...good...differ...rent...ropes.’
The minutes raced by, and the sun circled in front of them drying the ropes out, tightening its grip on them even more. The ropes across their chest hampered their breathing, so much they could only take little gulps of air. Lexington’s lips turned blue and Melaleuca started to feel faint-headed, while Quixote, lacking of oxygen, started to see flashing lights about his head.
The minutes soon turned to an hour, and then another hour and then another. The black concrete gathered heat, radiating it at them. Their lips dried out and cracked, and their vision blurred, and their throats parched.
By the time students had spilt out again onto the fields for another break, the cousins felt too faint and light-headed to care. Even Quixote failed to respond to the few students that came to jeer and taunt them.
The fields emptied again.
Continued in book 2 - The Omega Children: The Vahn & The Bold Extraction.
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Book 2
The adventure and mystery continue in book 2, "The Vahn & The Bold Extraction," as the Omega Children carry on trying to solve what they are embroiled in, despite no one telling them anything.
The Cousins endure more extremities of the Vahn in book 2 yet have to find a way to survive and stay true to their great instructions. The unknown fate of their parents starts to pale away as they are thrust even deeper into the workings of the hidden land of "New Wakefield."
Their Aunt continues to try and get rid of them, finally flipping and against the wishes of their Uncle commits them to a course of action they cannot turn back from, no matter how powerful they think they have become. She has one desire, and that is to destroy them.
Lord Daquan discovers that they have the bracelets and stops at nothing to retrieve them, while the Vahn puts intense pressure on them to conform to the Vahn’s ways – even to the point of entering them into a life and death struggle.
The cousins must pit their cultured "innocence" against the Vahn’s dark, foreboding presence, and once again remain unchanged.
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About the Author
Shane A. Mason lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
He was raised in the wilds in a small valley that has both green bush clad northern hills and southern mountains ranges extending for hundreds of miles.
The setting for the book was a natural choice. As a teenager he spent time in New Zealand’s vast South Island High Country – scenery the world has come to equate with the mythical land of Rohan from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies. It was here that he first glimpsed the possibility of setting an adventure in a civilization hidden from man.
His further studies into the psychology of how the mind affects illness or health led him to realize that a loss of “innocence” and a loss of the sense of “discovery” were pathways to ill health. Instead of writing a text book he chose to imbed the concepts in a mythological adventure.
26 Nov 2015
