Beneath the Guarding Stars (Mortality Book 2) by Frost Everly

Author:Frost, Everly [Frost, Everly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ever Realm Books
Published: 2016-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

WHEN ARACHNE emerged from the room her eyes were red and her cheeks blotchy. She drew a deep breath as though she was determined to stay tough in front of me. I didn’t wait for her to speak. I knew she wouldn’t want to talk to me about Josh’s message. “Josh said my parents are here. He said I have to find them in the data storage system and make sure they’re safe.”

Arachne blinked away her tears and shot me a glance I couldn’t decipher. “In the data storage system? You’re sure that’s what he said?”

When I nodded, she chewed her lip. “Are you really sure? Did he say they were in the data storage system or their location was in the data storage system?”

“He said ‘in.’ Why?”

“For starters, it’s really hard to get into. And, even if we can, I don’t think you’re going to like what you find.”

“Quit stalling and get me there.” The snap in my voice was loud in the silence. Maybe I’d hate my parents—maybe I wouldn’t forgive them—but Josh had given up his life to make sure we were safe and he’d told me to find them. So that’s what I was going to do.

“Fine. It’s this way.”

Without checking the corridor first, she sauntered along to the end, heading back the way we came, and I began to regret snapping at her, since she seemed to have turned reckless all of a sudden.

When we got to the junction where we could have turned right and headed back through the fuel marsh, she turned left instead, and finally slowed down. “The data storage system is this way.”

Down two more corridors, we finally came to a white wall. It looked like a dead end. “You’re lucky I have access to this area.” Arachne sized me up. “You’ll have to stay out here or you’ll trip the security system.” She sighed. “I don’t know how I’m going to find them in there. Stand back.”

She palmed the wall at eye height without waiting for me to move away. As soon as she touched the wall, it turned green, and both light and wind shot out from the wall like a mini-storm, knocking me several feet backward.

The wall opened and she sauntered through. As I steadied myself, I glimpsed flashes of deep green, multiple other colors, large shapes and shadows, and the sense of an enormous space beyond.

The doorway closed. I waited in the silence, staring at the blank wall until my eyes watered. What was beyond it hadn’t looked like any kind of data storage area that I’d ever seen. Neither did the wall itself. I inched closer to examine it and found that what had appeared white was actually threaded with very fine, pale green lines. Peering closer, it looked a lot like spindly veins, and if I squinted hard, there was a single thread running at a crooked angle that was darker than the rest, almost black. It appeared to be moving.

As soon as my skin touched the wall, I felt it—a living warmth.

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