SOVEREIGNTY 18
Alan could hear Hopix calling him, damn, she was so far away! Fighting with every fiber of his being, Alan started to claw his way to the surface. Finally he opened his eyes seeing a look of love and worry on Hopix’s face. “Alan my love you need to drink this, you are far too weak, please my love.” Hopix held a cup with a foul smelling brew in it. ‘I’ve smelled that before,’ Alan thought, ‘when was it? Ah yes back when he’d been on the Fairixie’s sister world.’ Alan tried to drink it as fast as he could; again not realizing that one couldn’t swallow the concoction as fast as he was trying. Coughing and sputtering Alan was gasping for breath as the foul odor of it surrounded him. Barely in a whisper …