Door Shadow

A distorted voice came out from the radio. It was of indeterminate gender, it might not even be human but at least Gu Jun and Yu Chi heard it clearly this time. Gu Jun was relatively calm while Yu Chi's face was red from excitement. His voice shook. "Who are you, where are you! What should we do now?"

But the voice from the radio came intermittently. Some words were clear but most were distorted beyond comprehension. It sounded like it came from deep underground or space. "We… Space… Fragment… World… Go… Find… Time… Space…" The sentence was too chopped up to make any sense of it. The wind blew relentlessly and the shadows of the tree appeared to multiply. Gu Jun's headache intensified. He knew time was running out. The strength of the signal was weakening and he could not hold on much longer. He asked urgently, "Are you humans too? Humans from another world?"

A strange voice uttered from the radio. "Are… humans…"