Boundless: A Science Fantasy Superhero Adventure by Damien Boyes

Author:Damien Boyes [Boyes, Damien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

26

Disorder

My head buzzes and the room falls to a hush. That’s what happened to her, the other me. Thrane killed her.

“What do you mean she never returned?” I ask. I’m almost afraid of the answer, but I want to hear it just the same.

“We told her not to go …” Fan starts, but his words trail off.

“And?” I prod. I want to know and don’t want to know at the same time. I keep meeting all these people who’ve already met me, who hate me or are disappointed by me for things I didn’t do. To be honest, I’ve tried to put the thought of her out of my mind.

It was easy when jumping from concert to concert and living it up to let myself forget a version of me, another Jasmin Parker, existed somewhere. What was she doing? What was she like? Did she hate pickles like I do? Prefer showers over baths? Did she have a crush on Martin Locke in high school too?

Grackle said he knew where to find me, said I’d told him about how I first manifested my powers and that’s why he was waiting for me on that corner, so I guess she probably was a lot like me. If she ended up throwing herself in front of the same truck to save the same boy, we must be nearly identical. Or at least we started that way.

I wonder where she is, where she disappeared to. I thought we boundless were immortal. If Thrane killed her, why didn’t she come back from the Aperion? Could she have chosen to stay? That seems unlikely. I didn’t—why would she?

So where is she?

Fan looks like he doesn’t want to answer, but Chen pipes up, and his voice has an edge to it. “She was angry. Gibzon wouldn’t act, so she took it upon herself to face Thrane,” he says.

“She went after Thrane alone?” What must she have been thinking? She had to be desperate to try something like that. Or crazy.

Chen shrugs. “That was two years ago.”

“Thrane came for us,” Fan adds. His eyes are unfocused, staring right through me. “The Resistance nearly died that day. If not for our safeguards, for the Resistance’s insulated cells, we all would have been lost.”

“But you survived,” I say, my voice quiet.

He blinks, comes back to me. “Some of us,” he says, his voice soft as mine, but then he perks up. “Only a few cells remain now, scattered around the world. Even I don’t know where they are. But now you’ve come. It is time for us to act. We can wait no longer.”

“What do you mean?”

Fan clears his throat and pauses a moment, as though he isn’t sure he should be telling me this, but then seems to convince himself because he says, “We worked together, the Resistance and the Omega Guard, and devised a plan to overthrow Thrane, but Gibzon deemed the idea too risky, claimed that none of us would survive failure. The other you disobeyed him and jumped here.

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