City of Twilight Part III: The New Dawn (The Vanguard Chronicles Book 3) by Stephenson III Donald

Author:Stephenson III, Donald
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

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​Christina sat in a chair in the underground facility. Alicia sat next to her, and they were watching the battle take place from afar. The lobby and elsewhere in the base was filled with people working on data screens, communicating with people on the surface in battle. There were others monitoring the activity of Civic Protection as well.

​They had already hijacked all the media signal, not only sabotaging all the new networks, but bringing the signal down to the underground base to air their own signal.

​“That’s strange,” one woman said out loud, “Civic Protection is sounding the alarm that the capital is under attack, but we don’t have any groups that have reached it yet.” Christina walked over to the woman, and looked onto the data screen.

​“It’s him,” Alicia said, “he’s all right.” She grabbed Christina’s hand, and looked up at her with a grin. Christina crouched so she was eye-level with Alicia.

​“Are you sure?” The young girl nodded her head.

​“James is coming,” Alicia said, “he’s almost here. He told me to tell you something. It’s important.” Other people turned to Alicia. It was no secret that she was James’s sister, and that she had some sort of power as well. Luke, who was standing by, walked over to them. Sean Garrett had just entered the facility along-side William of the fallen. Both of them had noticed, and walked over to hear Alicia also.

​“What, what does James need you to tell us?” Sean asked.

​“To stop attacking.” Alicia was calm. There was silence around her. She looked upward to something unseen. “We need to leave the city. Everyone needs to head for the wall. Only then will everyone know the truth.” She turned and looked at all of them. “Only then can we all be free.”

​“We don’t even know what’s on the outside,” Luke said.

​“You don’t even know what’s on the inside of your own city,” James said to them all telekinetically. People were startled by hearing his voice in their minds. The doors that led to the outside of the facility opened, and James stood there. He had a serious look on his face. He walked into the room slowly.

​Christina and Alicia both ran over and embraced him. He held them tight, closing his eyes. My family. He wanted to hold them forever, but he knew he had to let go. They have to let go as well.

​He released them, although he still held on to Christina’s hand. He held her hand with both of his. She noticed his right arm, how different it looked. It was made up of the symbiotic xeno. He looked into her eyes assuringly.

​“It’s all right,” he said to her, “we’re going to be all right.”

​“What happened to your arm?” Christina asked.

​“I thought I lost it,” James said, “but I got a new one.” He held up the arm as he smiled, letting it pulse and grow, showing her. He let it revert back into the arm form and turned to everyone else.

​There were whispers among the group.

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