An Hour of Need by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-23T23:00:00+00:00

Lawrence

I was feeling beyond confused as I carried my father back with me and my colleagues to Aviary city.

What had just happened?

Who were those people who had taken my father hostage?

One moment I had been on the phone to my father, filling him in on the progress we’d made and the remaining estimated tree count, and the next I’d heard him grunt, followed by the thump of the phone hitting the ground.

I’d set out with an emergency search party immediately, though it wasn’t difficult to find him. As was mandatory for all IBSI members recruited to work on the new construction site in Aviary, as soon as we arrived in this land, we had to hook ourselves up to a central tracing system based in one of the technology caravan units in the center of the main clearing ground. For such a large project as this, it was mandatory that I had the means to know where everyone was, to manage our resources and ensure that everybody was working together as efficiently as possible… In all honesty, I was surprised that my father had given me such a prominent role so soon after my successful drug trial. I found the attention he was showing me now rather difficult to get used to, though it certainly was not unwelcome. I had been all but estranged from him while growing up. After my mother’s accident, I’d rarely seen him. It was understandable, of course. He had arguably the most demanding job in the world.

Now, he thought I was up to managing the IBSI’s activities in Aviary. He assured me that I was a fast learner and would easily fill in the gaps in my knowledge while on the job.

So far, he was right—it hadn’t been difficult to slip into this role, even if I did find myself asking several times a day what exactly I was doing in this position of authority.

We arrived at our temporary base among the treetops in old Aviary city. We had cleared away the medieval treehouses that been perched among the branches and replaced them with glass box-like constructions with interconnecting walkways. There were over a hundred rooms in this sprawling architecture, and that was with some workers sharing a room. My father and I parted ways with the other men, and landed directly on top of one of the walkways with the mutant. The creature set my father down before I slid off myself. I gave the mutant a nod, indicating that I had finished with him for now and he ought to rejoin the others.

Riding these… things was a skill I had not forgotten. There were many others that I remembered, too. It was only a period of a couple of months that had been completely erased from my memory during the drug procedure—and my father said that I was lucky, since two months was a very short period. Much less than expected. He said that, before I’d gone in, they had predicted I might even lose up to a year of my life.

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