Betrayed

Geoffrey Arnold

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This is the third in Geoffrey's exciting series that has seen the Twins ripped from Vertazia and dropped onto Earth a thousand miles apart and without their telepathic connection. Fearful they will return and spread the "Human Violence Virus," their rulers have resorted to unacceptable levels of violence to prevent the Twins' friends from rescuing them.In Betrayed, readers join Qwelby as he slips into the fifth dimension to free Tullia from prison. Whilst Qwelby finds love in his second Awakening, the horror Tullia fears of hers is marked by bloody knife fights. Shooting his way out of danger, the Twins mentally reconnect, but before he can act Qwelby is kidnapped by the Professor.On Vertazia the two key rulers plot against each other, both using sixteen-year-old Xaala who dangerously twists their plans to her own ends - to destroy one Twin and win the hearts of the other. But which one for what end?A fraught journey aboard a flying Pirate Ship crewed by two of the Twins' Best Friends sees Tullia join Qwelby on the Professor's island. All should be well but Qwelby has fallen deeply in love with a human girl. Feeling bitterly betrayed, Tullia flees. As Qwelby launches himself through dimensions in pursuit, Xaala attacks him with a flaming sword, only to be hurled back by the strength of the human girl's love for him.To return home with the truths they have learnt on Earth and save their world, the Twins must be together. Will Tullia forgive her Twin or return to love amongst her adoptive tribe of Bushmen, leaving Qwelby with his human lover, and the Twins on Earth - forever?

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• Science fiction

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• Publié par: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Date de parution: 18 décembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781789019056
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Quantum Twins Series
Ripped ApARt
Hunted
BetrAyed
Rebellion
BETRAYED
QUANTUM TWINS
ADVENTURES ON TWO WORLDS
GEOFFREY ARNOLD
Copyright © 2019 Geoffrey Arnold
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
WELCOME
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
SAN PRONUNCIATION
ÓWEPPÂ THE TALISMAN

CHAPTER 1 FREEDOM
CHAPTER 2 ON LICENCE
CHAPTER 3 REFLECTING
CHAPTER 4 CONFUSION
CHAPTER 5 MUGGERS
CHAPTER 6 ERKI IS RECRUITED
CHAPTER 7 DEPARTURE
CHAPTER 8 PREPARATION
CHAPTER 9 RUNNING AWAY
CHAPTER 10 INITIATION
CHAPTER 11 PASSPORTS
CHAPTER 12 SHADOWS
CHAPTER 13 ATTACK
CHAPTER 14 CHALLENGE
CHAPTER 15 SUBVERSION
CHAPTER 16 DECISIONS
CHAPTER 17 PUZZLES
CHAPTER 18 ATONEMENT
CHAPTER 19 SWEET DREAMS
CHAPTER 20 HOMEWORK
CHAPTER 21 ROMAIN ACTS
CHAPTER 22 HUNTED
CHAPTER 23 TROPHIES
CHAPTER 24 SLEIGH RIDE
CHAPTER 25 PRIDE
CHAPTER 26 LISTENERS
CHAPTER 27 TWINS CONNECT
CHAPTER 28 A BLESSING?
CHAPTER 29 SURVEILLANCE
CHAPTER 30 TURMOIL
CHAPTER 31 PLANNING
CHAPTER 32 MORNING
CHAPTER 33 KARTING
CHAPTER 34 PLANNING
CHAPTER 35 BURGLARS
CHAPTER 36 VIIVI
CHAPTER 37 “BUGS”
CHAPTER 38 ELDEREST
CHAPTER 39 JENNI
CHAPTER 40 OONA
CHAPTER 41 REPLACEMENTS
CHAPTER 42 SHAMED
CHAPTER 43 TRIUMPH!
CHAPTER 44 A DOCTOR CALLS
CHAPTER 45 PLAYING CATCH-UP
CHAPTER 46 FAREWELL
CHAPTER 47 BREAKFAST
CHAPTER 48 CONFESSION
CHAPTER 49 LOST
CHAPTER 50 HEALING DANCE
CHAPTER 51 PROGRESS
CHAPTER 52 A TRUCE
CHAPTER 53 DISGRUNTLED
CHAPTER 54 TO THE FARM
CHAPTER 55 ESCAPE
CHAPTER 56 PURPLE FRUIT
CHAPTER 57 FREEDOM
CHAPTER 58 MISTAKES
CHAPTER 59 KIMAMA
CHAPTER 60 RULCAS ARRIVES
CHAPTER 61 APOLOGY
CHAPTER 62 DEEP MIND
CHAPTER 63 A NEW HOME
CHAPTER 64 LIONESTA
CHAPTER 65 OUT OF SIGHT
CHAPTER 66 DANCE OF DISCOVERY DEEPENS
CHAPTER 67 PASSPORTS PLEASE!
CHAPTER 68 PRISONER
CHAPTER 69 LAUNCH
CHAPTER 70 HIDENSEEK
CHAPTER 71 SO NEAR
CHAPTER 72 SHARING
CHAPTER 73 SALT PANS
CHAPTER 74 PIRATES
CHAPTER 75 BATTLE ROYAL
CHAPTER 76 ARRIVAL
CHAPTER 77 AFTERMATH
CHAPTER 78 AFTERMATH
CHAPTER 79 LOVE HURTS
CHAPTER 80 LOVING
CHAPTER 81 AGONY
CHAPTER 82 REVENGE
CHAPTER 83 CLAIMED
CHAPTER 84 ORO FIGHTS PELE

The Author
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My continuing thanks go to my supporting team. Cecily Wheeler and Josephine Brand who type the stories the Twins tell my whilst we’re on holiday, my editor Judith Henstra, Caroline Swain who proof reads and provides a detailed edit, and although this is ‘self-published’ I have a publisher - a great team at Matador. Gary Brown for his splendid redesign of the website. Stephen Ling and Pegggy Driscoll who read the books and give me invaluable reader advice and suggestions. Through it all there is my wife who gives me the space and the time it takes on holiday and then at home, and the continuing interest and support of friends and family.
WELCOME
In previous books I have written:
“Welcome to the story the Twins have told me. They do not consider this to be a work of fiction.”

While we were discussing a scene in this book I challenged them to explain how they know what other people were doing or thinking. Their answer was:
‘There is no Time in Timelessness.’

The Twins have gone on to live long lives and reached the ninth dimension where, as with Sigma-Space, they can turn the pages of the story of their lives. To be present both “then” and “now” means entanglement. When I see them, the superpositioning collapses (Hullo, Schrödinger’s Cat) and they are present as they were in that part of their lives they are telling me about.
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
VERTAZIA
A Vertazian day equals 28 hours on Earth. That makes the Twins equivalent to seventeen and a half years old, Tamina and Xaala nineteen and a half. But Tazii live to be about two hundred and the children mature slower.

Qwelby & Tullia (15) their father: Shandur, mother: Mizena
Tamina (girl almost 17) & Wrenden (boy almost 14) sister & brother
Pelnak & Shimara (boy & girl 15) the not-twins
Shandur’s Great Uncle Mandara (Gumma), Great Aunt Lellia (Gallia)

Ceegren, the Arch Custodian
Xaala (girl almost 17), his acolyte
Rulcas (boy 16) Xaala’s side-kick
Dryddnaa, a Chief Readjuster (Psych or Psi Doctor)

FINLAND
Hannu Rahkamo (boy 15), father Paavo, mother Seija
Viivi (19) Jenni (16) Oona (14)

Miska Metsälä, Suojelupoliisi (SUPO) Finnish Intelligence Service
Chief Inspector Ulla Koivuniemi
Ivanova & Nicolai Rushailo, FSB
Sherwin and Farah Green, CIA

KALAHARI
The Meera Tribe
Tsetsana (almost 12) father Milake, mother Deena
Xashee, her 16 year old brother
Tomku, their 4 year old sister
Nthabe, their 7 year old sister
H’ani (boy 17)
Kou-’ke and Nlai, 16 year old girls
Mandingwe & N!Obile, 12 year old girls
Ghadi, tribal chief
Kotuma, his wife
Xameb, the Shaman
Xara, senior hunter
Tu, a healer

Police
Inspector Modisakgosi
Constable Ditau

RAIATEA
Professor David Romain
Dr Tyler Jefferson & Dr Miki Tamagusuku-Jefferson
Angélique (just turned 16)
daughter of Hokuao, the housekeeper and cook
SAN PRONUNCIATION
A reminder.

X
Imagine the way the English say ‘Gee up’ to a horse, a click at one side of the mouth, usually the noise is made twice. The X is pronounced with that sort of click made at both sides of the mouth at the same time.

Ts
A normal Ts movement but with the tongue pressed hard against the back of the top teeth and pulled sharply away. The sort of ‘tsk’ sound someone makes in a ‘tut tut’ expression.

!
An explosive sound made with the tip of the tongue pulled from the top of the palate. A sort of ‘tok’ sound - without the ‘k’.

’
A glottal stop - made by closing and reopening the back of the throat quickly.

-
A single ‘gee up’ click.

”
Half way between ! and Ts
ÓWEPPÂ THE TALISMAN


CHAPTER 1
FREEDOM
The Kalahari
Qwelby jerked awake with his twin’s scream reverberating through his head.
Why? She was in his arms.
She wasn’t.
She had been.
In his mind as he wrapped his arms around her – in a prison cell!
Charging to her rescue, he hurtled out of his Form into the eighth dimension as he morphed into his Attribute of a powerful dragon and burst into her cell, rocking the building as he ripped all the doors to the cells from their frames. With a mighty roar he smashed through a solid metal door into an office where he saw his twin and tore out the door that was barring her escape.
‘No. Kaigii. NO!’ Tullia yelled.
Puzzled, Qwelby halted and smiled as he noted the confusion on the faces of the people unable to see him. Tullia knelt and tried to lift the door he’d just come through. Responding to her plea for help, he gripped the edge of the door and saw his arm covered in dragon scales as he raised it up. A tall slim young man wearing dark blue, who’d been lying to one side, crawled to the door and dragged from underneath it an old man also wearing dark blue.
Qwelby let the door crash back onto the floor, raising a cloud of dust and making the young man cough. He recognised the three marks on the old man’s clothing – a sergeant – of police. “The Authorities” he knew meant imprisonment, dissection and death as people on Earth believed all aliens were out to destroy them – and would destroy any alien they met. Here were two of them!
No. Kaigii. They good.
His twin’s thoughts stopped his rising panic and were followed by her request to share healing energies. Qwelby saw the six fingers of their one pair of hands manipulate the vivid interplay of colour