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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Awakening - -Author: Jack Sharkey - -Release Date: January 3, 2016 [EBook #50834] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AWAKENING *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="404" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>THE AWAKENING</h1> - -<p>BY JACK SHARKEY</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine February 1964.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>They awoke after ages of hiding—to emerge into<br /> -a world richer than they had dared to dream of!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Rik's first impressions were an uncomfortable chill creeping along his -bare flesh, and a bright milky swirling of light that encompassed his -entire vision. He shivered and blinked his eyes a few times, and then -the swirling settled down and became the vault. The chill, he realized, -was due to the body warmth being methodically sucked away by the cold -slab on which he lay. Another shiver brought a gasp of breath into his -lungs, and then he was wide awake.</p> - -<p>When he sat up and swung his legs over the side, the interior of the -vault began swirling again. He had to grip the edge of the slab to keep -from falling. The air was humid, much too humid, and he could taste the -prickly presence of carbon dioxide when he breathed. "The pump," he -mumbled, dropping to the floor on feet that he could barely control. -"Something's happened to the pump."</p> - -<p>He pushed himself determinedly erect, then stumbled down the long -corridor between the other slabs, hardly glancing at their silent -tenants, until he got to Zina's. She lay still as death, not flicking -so much as an eyelid, and her flesh was like frozen wax beneath his -exploring fingers.</p> - -<p>There was nothing he could do for her until he got the pump working -again....</p> - -<p>Rik pushed away from the slab on which Zina lay, and went through the -archway into the next chamber. Here another fifty of the group lay on -their slabs, not so much as a muscle twitch betraying the fact that -they were all quite alive. It seemed only a few hours since he had lain -down on his slab in the other room and gotten his injection, but he -could not, for a dizzy moment, recall in which direction the pump lay. -His mind seemed to be plumbing dust-covered depths to dredge out his -memories, one by one.</p> - -<p>He suddenly remembered the War. The war that had driven the group to -build this place, to try and safeguard a handful from the holocaust -that would set fire to the surface of the world and turn the seas to -steam. Was it possible the war had passed? Or had it ever come!</p> - -<p>There was no way to know without going outside—Wait! There was! -Rik thought hard, trying to get his sense of direction back. The -atom-powered clock that marked off months instead of minutes was in the -central vault, where the elders slept. The other nine vaults ringed -that one, he recalled, veering at right angles to his first direction, -which would have taken him on a circular tour of the nine vaults and -back to his starting place again.</p> - -<p>The archway to the vault of the elders was unaccountably blocked, -and Rik realized suddenly that part of the ceiling there had fallen, -carried by some fault in the granite of the mountain itself. But that -was impossible! The elders had selected this site on the basis of the -rigidity of the rocky strata that made it up. A fault could not have -occurred for more years than Rik's own lifetime—</p> - -<p>Or had that many years passed already?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>There was no way of knowing; not until he had examined the clock. Rik -moved away from the blockade and made his way into the next vault, and -the next, finally finding an archway in the sixth vault from his own -where the rock had not completely sealed the way into the elders' vault.</p> - -<p>Here he had expected to find the air fresher, already having theorized -that the staleness elsewhere was due to the poor circulation occasioned -by the blockaded central vault. But in fact the air there was even -worse, and laden with an odor that made Rik suddenly afraid to see its -source.</p> - -<p>Still, he was the first to awake. It was up to him to try and save -himself and the others. Rik made an effort of will, and then squeezed -through the narrow orifice into the main chamber. He looked once toward -the slabs holding the bodies of the elders, then quickly away. It was -true. All were in advanced stages of corruption already.</p> - -<p>Choking, Rik went to the center of the high room and looked into the -horizontal face of the clock. The broad indicator arm was at its -utmost numeral, and was pocked with rust. They'd lain here beyond the -time-of-awakening by at least four times the years they'd planned!</p> - -<p>"It can't be right," Rik gasped, his brain reeling for want of clean, -cool air. "The mechanism has failed somehow." Afraid to think about it, -he tilted the clock up on its base until the pedestal which supported -it lay on its side upon the floor. The square block of metal that -based the pedestal was now uptilted beyond the vertical, exposing a -gaping trap in the floor. Rik did not like the tarnished look of the -metal underside of the pedestal-base, forged of an alloy supposed -to be incorruptible. A sick thought took hold of his insides then, -as he placed one foot upon the rocky staircase under the floor. The -clock-indicator had halted at its utmost numeral.</p> - -<p>But what if they'd lain here even longer than that? There would be no -way of knowing. No way at all.</p> - -<p>He descended the staircase swiftly then, glad at least that the air -was better down in the pump chamber. "It would be, of course," he -reminded himself, "if the pump went off, even. This air would never -be circulated, never have its chance to become corrupt with our -exhalations." And then his musing was halted in midthought as he came -upon the pump. Or upon what had been the pump.</p> - -<p>Where rigid cylinders of gleaming metal had been, a few jagged teeth of -brown corruption lay in a circle. The pistons were no better, though -their thickness had preserved more of their original shape despite the -inroads of age, so they could be recognized for what they were—had -been. The central shaft was a long mound of flaking dust on the floor -between the path of the pistons, and the wall-sized mass of the -filters—woven of metal and powerful synthetic fibers—crumbled beneath -the pressure of his finger.</p> - -<p>He sought and found the ponderous casing in which the engine-empowering -radioactive element had lain, and its thick walls tore away like wood -pulp in his hands. The element, when he found it, was already become -cold grey lead. And it had had a half-life of centuries....</p> - -<p>Rik crumpled slowly to the floor, shutting his eyes, trying not to -think of the eons which must have passed while they all lay sleeping -the pseudodeath in the vaults. What might the world have become in the -interim!</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A current of cool air suddenly touched his face. His head came up -instantly, his eyes seeking the source.</p> - -<p>A feathery motion of torn edges in the filter showed him that it came -through the gap he had torn there. Rik sprang to his feet then, leaped -at the filter and tore out chunks by the armful, letting the pulverized -material float in spinning clouds of dust motes behind him. The air -grew stronger, came faster, as he ripped away the corruption, and then -he could see the tunnel beyond.</p> - -<p>Gasping at the effort—how long since he had eaten?—he staggered -back from the opening then back up the stairs into the chamber of the -elders. Now that his nostrils had been stimulated by the clean air the -smell of corruption was violently repelling; but he held his breath and -ran to the gap in the tumbled rock about the archway, and squeezed his -way into the area of subsidiary vaults.</p> - -<p>Without the pump in operation, the air could not circulate to this -point, but he hoped to drag some of his companions down to the torn -filter and revive them—then, with their help, bring the others.</p> - -<p>It would be all right. They would be saved, as planned. He regretted -the loss of the elders. But no matter. They were but the rulers. He -and the others were the chemists, the scientists, the engineers. New -elderships could be created when they had become settled again, and -could rebuild their civilization.</p> - -<p>He went to Zina's slab first. She would not be as much help as some of -the others, but Zina and he were too close for him to delay her revival -any longer. Life was not worth having without Zina. He carried her out -of the vault, through the gap and thick miasma of corruption, then down -into the pump chamber. Leaving her lying on her back, with the breeze -ruffling her hair about her face, Rik went back up for the next person.</p> - -<p>Three exhausting trips later, he sat among the bodies of his friends, -listening with joy to their returning quiver of breath and life. Zina -was the first to open her eyes. She seemed startled to find she was no -longer on the slab, and then joyous when her glance fell upon his eager -face.</p> - -<p>"We've done it!" she sighed. "We came through!" She tried to sit up, -then lay down heavily. "Rik—I'm so weak...."</p> - -<p>"We need food, all of us," he said. "I'm weak myself." He arose from -his crouch at her side and stared down the tunnel to the outer world. -"I don't know what it's like out there," he said. "There may be no food -at all. If the War was as devastating as predicted, it may be barren -rock, burning sun and overall death."</p> - -<p>"How long—?" Zina began, and then her eyes fell upon the time-rotted -hulk of the pump and she stopped, her face going pale. "As long as -that!" she whispered. "Oh, Rik! Do you think—?"</p> - -<p>"I'll know when I've looked," he said. Their eyes met for a long, -silent moment, then he turned and started up the tunnel.</p> - -<p>Three hundred strides brought him to the barrier, the thinly -perforated shield of rock that had been left intact to hide the -location of the vaults from their enemies. Rik put his shoulder to the -shell. It cracked and fell away as he'd thought it would, with weather -and erosion having weakened it for centuries. Bright yellow moonlight -lay all about the land outside. Incredibly fine sand was everywhere, -but a smell of fresh water and green growing things was mingled with -the night air. The region had not been desert when the vaults were -constructed. The War had left its mark of devastation here, Rik saw, -looking in vain for a trace of the magnificent towered city that had -once been just beyond this spot.</p> - -<p>He shook off his dismay and set himself to the task for which he'd -emerged.</p> - -<p>The animals had to be alive, yet, or they were doomed. He'd always -regretted the haste in their preparations that had precluded preparing -survival vaults for the food animals. The best they'd been able to do, -before the Day of Devastation, was herd the stupid beasts into caves -and pile the entrances with loose rock, hoping the animals would dig -themselves out only after the worst fury of the War had passed.... Rik -threw off the bitter memory, abruptly, as his ears detected a tiny buzz -of sound.</p> - -<p>He dropped to the ground and lay still, watching to see what sort of -beast would appear. It sounded larger than the animals he remembered. -"I must be near a waterhole," he reasoned. "There's a pathway here, -made by many animals passing this way...." he mused, studying the -narrow, flattened track that he'd spotted in the night-chilled sand.</p> - -<p>Then he saw something coming slowly up the trail, a thing much larger -than the animals he remembered.</p> - -<p>It was a long moment before he realized what it was, and smiled. Then -he reached out his hands and had it. It buzzed loudly in his grip until -he pounded it to silence on a rock. By the time he'd returned to the -pump chamber, he'd managed to prise it open, but its contents—mangled -by the smashing upon the rock—were barely fit to eat.</p> - -<p>"It's better than I could have hoped," he said to Zina, when they and -the others had picked the thing clean. "Life promises to be much more -exciting, infinitely more sporting in this new age outside the vaults. -With care, we can survive until our engineers rig up some whip-rays and -herding-claws again."</p> - -<p>"It <i>will</i> be fun," Zina agreed, smiling with grim anticipation. "I -enjoy a challenge in the hunt. Who'd have thought the animals would -have come so <i>far</i> from the caves!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It was hours later that the bus company grew worried about their -missing vehicle, and started an investigation. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Awakening - -Author: Jack Sharkey - -Release Date: January 3, 2016 [EBook #50834] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AWAKENING *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - - THE AWAKENING - - BY JACK SHARKEY - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine February 1964. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - They awoke after ages of hiding--to emerge into - a world richer than they had dared to dream of! - - -Rik's first impressions were an uncomfortable chill creeping along his -bare flesh, and a bright milky swirling of light that encompassed his -entire vision. He shivered and blinked his eyes a few times, and then -the swirling settled down and became the vault. The chill, he realized, -was due to the body warmth being methodically sucked away by the cold -slab on which he lay. Another shiver brought a gasp of breath into his -lungs, and then he was wide awake. - -When he sat up and swung his legs over the side, the interior of the -vault began swirling again. He had to grip the edge of the slab to keep -from falling. The air was humid, much too humid, and he could taste the -prickly presence of carbon dioxide when he breathed. "The pump," he -mumbled, dropping to the floor on feet that he could barely control. -"Something's happened to the pump." - -He pushed himself determinedly erect, then stumbled down the long -corridor between the other slabs, hardly glancing at their silent -tenants, until he got to Zina's. She lay still as death, not flicking -so much as an eyelid, and her flesh was like frozen wax beneath his -exploring fingers. - -There was nothing he could do for her until he got the pump working -again.... - -Rik pushed away from the slab on which Zina lay, and went through the -archway into the next chamber. Here another fifty of the group lay on -their slabs, not so much as a muscle twitch betraying the fact that -they were all quite alive. It seemed only a few hours since he had lain -down on his slab in the other room and gotten his injection, but he -could not, for a dizzy moment, recall in which direction the pump lay. -His mind seemed to be plumbing dust-covered depths to dredge out his -memories, one by one. - -He suddenly remembered the War. The war that had driven the group to -build this place, to try and safeguard a handful from the holocaust -that would set fire to the surface of the world and turn the seas to -steam. Was it possible the war had passed? Or had it ever come! - -There was no way to know without going outside--Wait! There was! -Rik thought hard, trying to get his sense of direction back. The -atom-powered clock that marked off months instead of minutes was in the -central vault, where the elders slept. The other nine vaults ringed -that one, he recalled, veering at right angles to his first direction, -which would have taken him on a circular tour of the nine vaults and -back to his starting place again. - -The archway to the vault of the elders was unaccountably blocked, -and Rik realized suddenly that part of the ceiling there had fallen, -carried by some fault in the granite of the mountain itself. But that -was impossible! The elders had selected this site on the basis of the -rigidity of the rocky strata that made it up. A fault could not have -occurred for more years than Rik's own lifetime-- - -Or had that many years passed already? - - * * * * * - -There was no way of knowing; not until he had examined the clock. Rik -moved away from the blockade and made his way into the next vault, and -the next, finally finding an archway in the sixth vault from his own -where the rock had not completely sealed the way into the elders' vault. - -Here he had expected to find the air fresher, already having theorized -that the staleness elsewhere was due to the poor circulation occasioned -by the blockaded central vault. But in fact the air there was even -worse, and laden with an odor that made Rik suddenly afraid to see its -source. - -Still, he was the first to awake. It was up to him to try and save -himself and the others. Rik made an effort of will, and then squeezed -through the narrow orifice into the main chamber. He looked once toward -the slabs holding the bodies of the elders, then quickly away. It was -true. All were in advanced stages of corruption already. - -Choking, Rik went to the center of the high room and looked into the -horizontal face of the clock. The broad indicator arm was at its -utmost numeral, and was pocked with rust. They'd lain here beyond the -time-of-awakening by at least four times the years they'd planned! - -"It can't be right," Rik gasped, his brain reeling for want of clean, -cool air. "The mechanism has failed somehow." Afraid to think about it, -he tilted the clock up on its base until the pedestal which supported -it lay on its side upon the floor. The square block of metal that -based the pedestal was now uptilted beyond the vertical, exposing a -gaping trap in the floor. Rik did not like the tarnished look of the -metal underside of the pedestal-base, forged of an alloy supposed -to be incorruptible. A sick thought took hold of his insides then, -as he placed one foot upon the rocky staircase under the floor. The -clock-indicator had halted at its utmost numeral. - -But what if they'd lain here even longer than that? There would be no -way of knowing. No way at all. - -He descended the staircase swiftly then, glad at least that the air -was better down in the pump chamber. "It would be, of course," he -reminded himself, "if the pump went off, even. This air would never -be circulated, never have its chance to become corrupt with our -exhalations." And then his musing was halted in midthought as he came -upon the pump. Or upon what had been the pump. - -Where rigid cylinders of gleaming metal had been, a few jagged teeth of -brown corruption lay in a circle. The pistons were no better, though -their thickness had preserved more of their original shape despite the -inroads of age, so they could be recognized for what they were--had -been. The central shaft was a long mound of flaking dust on the floor -between the path of the pistons, and the wall-sized mass of the -filters--woven of metal and powerful synthetic fibers--crumbled beneath -the pressure of his finger. - -He sought and found the ponderous casing in which the engine-empowering -radioactive element had lain, and its thick walls tore away like wood -pulp in his hands. The element, when he found it, was already become -cold grey lead. And it had had a half-life of centuries.... - -Rik crumpled slowly to the floor, shutting his eyes, trying not to -think of the eons which must have passed while they all lay sleeping -the pseudodeath in the vaults. What might the world have become in the -interim! - - * * * * * - -A current of cool air suddenly touched his face. His head came up -instantly, his eyes seeking the source. - -A feathery motion of torn edges in the filter showed him that it came -through the gap he had torn there. Rik sprang to his feet then, leaped -at the filter and tore out chunks by the armful, letting the pulverized -material float in spinning clouds of dust motes behind him. The air -grew stronger, came faster, as he ripped away the corruption, and then -he could see the tunnel beyond. - -Gasping at the effort--how long since he had eaten?--he staggered -back from the opening then back up the stairs into the chamber of the -elders. Now that his nostrils had been stimulated by the clean air the -smell of corruption was violently repelling; but he held his breath and -ran to the gap in the tumbled rock about the archway, and squeezed his -way into the area of subsidiary vaults. - -Without the pump in operation, the air could not circulate to this -point, but he hoped to drag some of his companions down to the torn -filter and revive them--then, with their help, bring the others. - -It would be all right. They would be saved, as planned. He regretted -the loss of the elders. But no matter. They were but the rulers. He -and the others were the chemists, the scientists, the engineers. New -elderships could be created when they had become settled again, and -could rebuild their civilization. - -He went to Zina's slab first. She would not be as much help as some of -the others, but Zina and he were too close for him to delay her revival -any longer. Life was not worth having without Zina. He carried her out -of the vault, through the gap and thick miasma of corruption, then down -into the pump chamber. Leaving her lying on her back, with the breeze -ruffling her hair about her face, Rik went back up for the next person. - -Three exhausting trips later, he sat among the bodies of his friends, -listening with joy to their returning quiver of breath and life. Zina -was the first to open her eyes. She seemed startled to find she was no -longer on the slab, and then joyous when her glance fell upon his eager -face. - -"We've done it!" she sighed. "We came through!" She tried to sit up, -then lay down heavily. "Rik--I'm so weak...." - -"We need food, all of us," he said. "I'm weak myself." He arose from -his crouch at her side and stared down the tunnel to the outer world. -"I don't know what it's like out there," he said. "There may be no food -at all. If the War was as devastating as predicted, it may be barren -rock, burning sun and overall death." - -"How long--?" Zina began, and then her eyes fell upon the time-rotted -hulk of the pump and she stopped, her face going pale. "As long as -that!" she whispered. "Oh, Rik! Do you think--?" - -"I'll know when I've looked," he said. Their eyes met for a long, -silent moment, then he turned and started up the tunnel. - -Three hundred strides brought him to the barrier, the thinly -perforated shield of rock that had been left intact to hide the -location of the vaults from their enemies. Rik put his shoulder to the -shell. It cracked and fell away as he'd thought it would, with weather -and erosion having weakened it for centuries. Bright yellow moonlight -lay all about the land outside. Incredibly fine sand was everywhere, -but a smell of fresh water and green growing things was mingled with -the night air. The region had not been desert when the vaults were -constructed. The War had left its mark of devastation here, Rik saw, -looking in vain for a trace of the magnificent towered city that had -once been just beyond this spot. - -He shook off his dismay and set himself to the task for which he'd -emerged. - -The animals had to be alive, yet, or they were doomed. He'd always -regretted the haste in their preparations that had precluded preparing -survival vaults for the food animals. The best they'd been able to do, -before the Day of Devastation, was herd the stupid beasts into caves -and pile the entrances with loose rock, hoping the animals would dig -themselves out only after the worst fury of the War had passed.... Rik -threw off the bitter memory, abruptly, as his ears detected a tiny buzz -of sound. - -He dropped to the ground and lay still, watching to see what sort of -beast would appear. It sounded larger than the animals he remembered. -"I must be near a waterhole," he reasoned. "There's a pathway here, -made by many animals passing this way...." he mused, studying the -narrow, flattened track that he'd spotted in the night-chilled sand. - -Then he saw something coming slowly up the trail, a thing much larger -than the animals he remembered. - -It was a long moment before he realized what it was, and smiled. Then -he reached out his hands and had it. It buzzed loudly in his grip until -he pounded it to silence on a rock. By the time he'd returned to the -pump chamber, he'd managed to prise it open, but its contents--mangled -by the smashing upon the rock--were barely fit to eat. - -"It's better than I could have hoped," he said to Zina, when they and -the others had picked the thing clean. "Life promises to be much more -exciting, infinitely more sporting in this new age outside the vaults. -With care, we can survive until our engineers rig up some whip-rays and -herding-claws again." - -"It _will_ be fun," Zina agreed, smiling with grim anticipation. "I -enjoy a challenge in the hunt. Who'd have thought the animals would -have come so _far_ from the caves!" - - * * * * * - -It was hours later that the bus company grew worried about their -missing vehicle, and started an investigation. 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