1.4 by Mike A. Lancaster

Author:Mike A. Lancaster [Lancaster, Mike A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Europe, Technological Innovations, Family, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Computers, Fiction, Science Fiction, Computer Programs, People & Places, General
ISBN: 9781405258180
Publisher: Egmont Books

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File: 113/47/04/sfg/Continued

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Alpha was waiting for me at what I was starting to think of as our spot.

I mean how crazy is that? We’d met there once and I was already attaching sentiment to the place.

Anyway, she looked desperately glad to see me and we had an awkward sort of hug; and then I told her about my father and handed her the black case.

She frowned at it.

‘What is it?’ she asked.

I shrugged. ‘Beats me.’

She thumbed the case open and we both stared at what was inside.

Four, small glass discs laid out on a dark cloth.

Alpha looked puzzled. ‘What on earth are they?’ she asked.

I’d seen something like them before in a science lesson. We’d been talking about medical advances, and how we no longer needed some of the things that had been important to people in the past.

The lecturer had handed around a set of small glass discs and asked everyone what they thought they were.

No one had known.

Inside the box my father had given me were two pairs of those same glass discs.

‘People used to put these on their eyes,’ I told her. ‘They were used to correct defects in vision, before we learned that our filaments were perfectly capable of adjusting our vision. They were called contact lenses .’

A memory surfaced, and I replayed the odd moment in the car when my father looked over at me and his eyes had changed from blue to brown.

Here was the explanation.

He’d been wearing contact lenses.

Just like these.

Alpha looked at me in confusion. ‘What an odd gift,’ she said. ‘My vision is perfect. Yours?’

‘As good as it’s ever needed to be,’ I said. ‘They must be fashion accessories. He’s started wearing them, to change the colour of his eyes, but I wonder why he gave them to us .’

‘I wonder how he knew there was an us .’ Alpha reflected. She snapped the case shut and handed it back to me. ‘I’ve hardly slept. But I had a few thoughts on some people we can speak to. If you still want to?’

‘Of course I do. I’ve had a few ideas of my own.’

‘A couple of soys while we compare notes?’ Alpha said, smiling. ‘My treat.’

‘You’re on,’ I said, pocketing the case that my father had given me.

‘I know a place,’ Alpha said, ‘close to here, but a little off the beaten track.’

‘Let’s go,’ I told her.

A few hundred yards, and a couple of side streets later we were standing in front of a gloomy looking little building on a street of gloomy looking buildings. Weirdly, I’d never ventured off the main beltways and slidewalks, so I had only ever seen the shops and buildings that advertised the new world we were living in: the ones with neon and poured granite; plasteel and plexiglass.

Far from the usual hi-tech, sparkling shops I was used to seeing, these ones looked like they belonged in the pages of a history book. They seemed to have been built of original materials that I had only ever read about.

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