AQUA (The Elements Series Book 1) by Korn Tracy

Author:Korn, Tracy [Korn, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Animus Ferrum Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-08-03T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 28

Debriefing

"Busy morning for everyone I see?" Arco says, slipping into a seat next to Jax at the lunch table and stealing a grape from his tray, and I slide in next to him.

"Look at this," Jax says, shoving a paper in my direction. "We get to work on that. That," he drills his finger into the paper. "The Leviathan, can you believe it? Look at those lines. See how the front just slides into the wing area? Seamless! Arco's training to pilot it. I'm training to run it."

I look over at Arco, who shrugs, quirking his eyebrows and then smirking as he looks away.

"You didn't tell me you might pilot that," I say, surprised. He looks back to me and raises an eyebrow.

"Well, you didn't ask," he says, taking a bite of his sandwich and trying to chew as his smirk widens into a smile. He swallows, then points with his sandwich to Jax. "He's the real hero. I can't pilot anything if he doesn't make all the systems work in the belly."

"It has a belly?" Vox stops chewing to ask, trying not to look horrified.

"That's what we call the core—the engineering room," Jax says, "you know, where all the guts are? Guts are in your belly." Everyone just blinks at him as he raises his eyebrows at the table just before his mouth drops open. "Oh, come on, it's a perfect metaphor!" Chuckles begin to bubble around the table, but quickly die down as Fraya walks up looking scattered.

"What happened to you?" Vox asks as everyone is still processing her ghostly appearance, and Jax gets to his feet to help her into the seat.

"We practiced hemofusion today," she says, and swallows several gulps of the juice Jax offers her.

"Do I even want to know what hemofusion is?" he asks, reaching for her hand. "You're freezing cold."

"It's just extracting red blood cells by using ionic fusion instead of vacuum needles like we had at our inoculations. It was just a little hard to watch, that's all."

"You pulled red blood cells out of someone's—what, through someone's skin? And they pulled them through yours?" Jax takes both her hands in his now and rubs back and forth to try and warm them.

"Well, we put them all back. It was just strange," she says, now leaning more into Jax with a sheepish smile. "They said we'd get used to it."

"What class is that?" Avis asks.

"My second class this morning, Cellular Design and Infrastructure. Also known as Biodesign."

"You need to eat something," Jax says, taking the uneaten half of his sandwich from his plate, then, thinking better of the strawberry jelly dripping off, reaches for the bowl of sliced peaches on his tray and gives it to her with his unused spoon. She takes a bite, and color slowly starts returning to her face.

"I'll get you some water," Avis says, maneuvering out of his seat with a flip of his blue-tipped hair.

"Why did they make you do that?" I ask.

"To show us what can be done I suppose—what they can do.

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