Death Thieves by Julie Wright

Author:Julie Wright [Wright, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Kindle Press
Published: 2016-07-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Three days later, I still had no clue how to get time to myself, and no clue how to beat out the IDR and entry sensors on every building in the world. Inoculations had been nightmarish. They sent us down an assembly line of nurses who held tools that looked like Paul’s nail gun. Each nurse slammed the gun into our biceps, forcing dissolvable needles and random cures to diseases I hadn’t even heard of into our flesh. The nurses called the needles inserts. They said that it worked the same as a regular needle from our times, but that these were far more sanitary. I left the assembly line with a ridge of inserts under my skin that the nurses promised would be gone by morning. It hurt a lot.

Monday morning found me with no ridge on my bicep and rushing along with everyone else trying to find the room for my first hour of university in the future.

“We should go to the library.” Jay suggested this during lunch. We had two more classes after lunch and then several hours to ourselves before dinner. The library! And a few hours that belonged to me. Tag had said he lived behind the Coliseum Library. I might be able to get close enough to the barracks to find out what happened to him.

I readily agreed to go with Jay, and Eddie readily agreed to accompany us. Eddie frowned at Jay as though somehow Jay was trying to ease in on Eddie’s territory. Eddie’s attitude irritated me.

“I’m not your girlfriend,” I told him as we walked along the garden tunnels, which I had learned were officially called the sky gardens. Jay snickered. Eddie glared over at Jay and acted offended I’d suggest that he thought anything different.

“Of course you aren’t. We haven’t even been on a date yet.” He stretched his neck as though his collar might be too tight.

Jay coughed into his hand and smirked at me with an eyebrow raised.

Eddie was from the year 1962. He’d been about to go off to Vietnam and found he’d been too afraid. So he’d shot himself instead. He’d meant to shoot himself in the foot or something like that, nothing that would kill him, but with his inexperience with guns, he made a mess of his face instead. Eddie had a habit of looking at himself in mirrors as we walked by them. I wondered if he was doing it to verify to himself that his face really was just fine. He hadn’t actually volunteered the information about dodging the draft to anyone but his roommate, James. James had been the one to gladly share that information with everyone else.

Once we were out several buildings away from the dormitories, Jay took a deep breath and grinned. “Smell that, guys?”

“Smell what?” Eddie asked with a bite to his words, obviously still not happy over Jay laughing at him.

“Freedom.” Jay turned his grin on me. “What do you think, Summer?”

A tightening in my shoulders seemed to ease the farther we moved from the dormitories.

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