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would end within the walls of The Facility.
‘Stop thinking so much. It’s distracting,’ Al’s voice bounced inside my skull.
‘You could try staying out of my mind. That might help,’ I thought, glaring at him through the dancing flames.
‘I meant that it’s distracting for you. You need to focus on what we’re doing.’
‘I need to focus on walking down a tunnel?’ I asked in an attempt to be snarky.
Just as I finished my thought, my foot caught on a stray rock and presented me with the wonderful opportunity of introducing my face to the ground. It was quickly decided that my face and the ground had far too many differences to hold any sort of stable relationship, and they would simply have to settle for being distant acquaintances.
“You okay?” Mattie asked, chuckling as she helped me up.
“Fine,” I muttered, aggressively brushing dirt from my knees. “Just a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull.”
Al nearly choked on his own saliva as he emitted an unexpected snort of laughter. We carried on, until we eventually reached a solid stone wall. I could hear the waterfall on the other side, and was more than a little excited to be back out in the open. Not that the Eden wasn’t wonderful in nearly every way, but I had only been able to spend a few hours of my life without being contained in some sort of shelter. I wanted to see the sun without it being distorted through water, or projected from a computer screen. Then a terrifying thought crossed my mind.
‘What if he’ s waiting on the other side?’
Al dragged his hand across the wall, leaving a mesh-like trail of light behind it. As I stared through the translucent stone in awe, I wondered if our powers would ever cease to amaze me. I didn’t need an explanation to know that we could see through the stone from our side, but others would not be able to see in. And this was one ability I wished I had known about while in The Fa cility—it really could have come in handy.
Al dragged his hand across the wall once more, this time creating the same white spider web of light that had allowed us into the tunnel before. Within moments, the stone was gone, and the waterfall parted over our heads as he held up his ring. The wall closed itself behind us, as we trudged through the stream to the soggy greenery on one side of the water. The sounds of squishy mud took me back to childhood, when Eddie would run the sprinkler for hours just so Eric and I could have the experience of puddle-hopping. I wished he was one of the people we were returning to save. But he wasn’t.
Al’s hand shot into the air, signaling for us to stop. Cracking twigs suggested we were not alone in the woods, and ‘not alone’ was a very bad thing to be. Al and I took hold of Jason and Mattie’s hands, just in time for a couple of teenagers to hike into view. They walked right past us, fishing rods in tow, without so much as a glance in our direction. Releasing the breath I realized I had been holding in, I eyed Al with worry.
‘We are silent and unseen from here on out. ’ The newly-added echo of Al’s voice gave me the odd feeling that I was not the only one he was talking to.
We all nodded and continued our path through the woods, avoiding twigs and noisy things as much as possible. It was difficult to see the sky through the dense foliage, and everything seemed to be tinted a mystical shade of green. My nostrils tingled with the strong scent of pine, which I hadn’t noticed on our trip to the Eden. It probably had something to do with the whole ‘broken nose’ thing.
The forest was abruptly severed by a paved road, which didn’t take much caution to cross. It seemed as though heavy traffic wouldn’t be a concern in the small town of Freedom. As we carried on, the uncanny, bitter smell of burnt stuff permeated the air, and a dwindling smoke clouded the sky.
The sight of the torched store had an unexpected effect on me; my heart raced and my feet felt
‘Stop thinking so much. It’s distracting,’ Al’s voice bounced inside my skull.
‘You could try staying out of my mind. That might help,’ I thought, glaring at him through the dancing flames.
‘I meant that it’s distracting for you. You need to focus on what we’re doing.’
‘I need to focus on walking down a tunnel?’ I asked in an attempt to be snarky.
Just as I finished my thought, my foot caught on a stray rock and presented me with the wonderful opportunity of introducing my face to the ground. It was quickly decided that my face and the ground had far too many differences to hold any sort of stable relationship, and they would simply have to settle for being distant acquaintances.
“You okay?” Mattie asked, chuckling as she helped me up.
“Fine,” I muttered, aggressively brushing dirt from my knees. “Just a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull.”
Al nearly choked on his own saliva as he emitted an unexpected snort of laughter. We carried on, until we eventually reached a solid stone wall. I could hear the waterfall on the other side, and was more than a little excited to be back out in the open. Not that the Eden wasn’t wonderful in nearly every way, but I had only been able to spend a few hours of my life without being contained in some sort of shelter. I wanted to see the sun without it being distorted through water, or projected from a computer screen. Then a terrifying thought crossed my mind.
‘What if he’ s waiting on the other side?’
Al dragged his hand across the wall, leaving a mesh-like trail of light behind it. As I stared through the translucent stone in awe, I wondered if our powers would ever cease to amaze me. I didn’t need an explanation to know that we could see through the stone from our side, but others would not be able to see in. And this was one ability I wished I had known about while in The Fa cility—it really could have come in handy.
Al dragged his hand across the wall once more, this time creating the same white spider web of light that had allowed us into the tunnel before. Within moments, the stone was gone, and the waterfall parted over our heads as he held up his ring. The wall closed itself behind us, as we trudged through the stream to the soggy greenery on one side of the water. The sounds of squishy mud took me back to childhood, when Eddie would run the sprinkler for hours just so Eric and I could have the experience of puddle-hopping. I wished he was one of the people we were returning to save. But he wasn’t.
Al’s hand shot into the air, signaling for us to stop. Cracking twigs suggested we were not alone in the woods, and ‘not alone’ was a very bad thing to be. Al and I took hold of Jason and Mattie’s hands, just in time for a couple of teenagers to hike into view. They walked right past us, fishing rods in tow, without so much as a glance in our direction. Releasing the breath I realized I had been holding in, I eyed Al with worry.
‘We are silent and unseen from here on out. ’ The newly-added echo of Al’s voice gave me the odd feeling that I was not the only one he was talking to.
We all nodded and continued our path through the woods, avoiding twigs and noisy things as much as possible. It was difficult to see the sky through the dense foliage, and everything seemed to be tinted a mystical shade of green. My nostrils tingled with the strong scent of pine, which I hadn’t noticed on our trip to the Eden. It probably had something to do with the whole ‘broken nose’ thing.
The forest was abruptly severed by a paved road, which didn’t take much caution to cross. It seemed as though heavy traffic wouldn’t be a concern in the small town of Freedom. As we carried on, the uncanny, bitter smell of burnt stuff permeated the air, and a dwindling smoke clouded the sky.
The sight of the torched store had an unexpected effect on me; my heart raced and my feet felt
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