Bridgebuilders by Marlene Dotterer

Author:Marlene Dotterer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: time travel, alternate universe, dystopian future, young romance, wormholes, rights of women
Publisher: Marlene Dotterer

Chapter 22

During the night, a late storm off the Atlantic met up with a high-pressure area moving down from Scotland, drenching Northern Ireland in a powerful rainfall. Andy, wrapped in a blanket on the floor, woke to darkness punctuated by near-constant flashes of lightening, and howling winds throwing rain against the window above him. A distant moaning alarm told him that the Irish Sea had once again breached the levees built inland against it. The sound was low in the register, indicating that for now, it was just a leak.

A fainter signal brought his attention into the room, and he scooped his Pad from the floor where he’d dropped it when he fell asleep. The message alert showed a text from Pete, and he tapped it open, hopeful and anxious about what it would say. Whatever it was, it would be in a code of some sort. Pete would never send real information over the web.

Good to see you again, mate. Congrats on the job at Sun. You’ll have to tell me everything you’re learning. You know I’m jealous. Karen says she’d be happy to show your friend around uni. She’ll meet her at two in front of the Lanyon Building.

Andy had been holding his breath, but now he let it out in quiet relief. The rebels would take Moira. The fact that Pete expected to hear everything Andy learned at Sun was a small price to pay.

He glanced over at Moira, still asleep on the bed. She was little more than a dark shape on the bed, but he could see that she faced him, curled on her side, the blankets pulled to her chin. Her hair fell over her face, and he had to resist the urge to go over and smooth it back.

They had talked long into the night, after her discovery that humans had entered their world from another universe, trying to fathom the meaning of it. He still felt a thread of disbelief. How could such a thing be true? Moira was inexperienced. Surely, she was misinterpreting the data. True, her explanation seemed fool-proof, and he could see the logic of her path. But he was inexperienced, as well. They had to be wrong.

He shivered, thinking about the neutrinos. They were altered from their usual state, proving a multi-state ability. He didn’t know if that was a result of the bridge-building, or if they had somehow been altered first, to make them useable for the bridge.

He shook his head. Questions. He had nothing but questions. After a glance out the window into the darkness of the storm, he turned and quietly slipped into the loo to dress. He’d wake Moira before he left to make sure she understood how and where to meet Karen. Then he would go to work. If the answers existed at all, he’d find them at Sun.

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Sam woke to a dark room. As had happened every morning since his capture, his hand searched the empty spot beside him, looking for Sarah. Like every other morning, he drew his hand back, afraid.

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