Deus: The Eurynome Code, Book Six by Gorman K

Author:Gorman, K.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2020-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

The sun hit her eye with a glare, and Eva winced, lifting a hand to block it as she stepped out from the shadow of the compound. It was always bright in high summer, after the monsoons had rolled through, and the entire parking lot shone with water and long, shallow puddles that filled its dips and cracks.

Up ahead, Dr. Corringham―Bernard, the older one―waited beside his car with the passenger’s door open.

She glanced down at the new school shoes they’d bought her―shiny black leather, like she’d seen private school girls wear on television―and edged around the next puddle, not wanting to get them dirty.

“Where are we going?” she called across the lot.

“A special dinner and a few nights in the city,” he answered. “Did you bring your pill box and ID? We’ll be flying.”

A plane? She perked up. She hadn’t been on one for a few months. If they needed her ID, that meant they were going into one of the larger cities. Sao Paulo perhaps, though it was a bit of a ways. Manaus, more likely.

This was atypical. Normally, the kids at the compound flew out once a year, and usually not until December. The main company’s execs lived on Nova Earth, and getting away for travel through the ERL gate was a hassle.

They could just stay on Nova and invite us all over there. I wouldn’t mind seeing the planet.

That, and gate travel sounded particularly fun. She wondered how it would interact with her powers.

In hindsight, that’s probably why they haven’t invited me.

“I’ve got everything.” She glanced back at the compound building. “Are the others not coming?”

“No. They wanted to see you, specifically.” He opened the door wider for her as she reached the car, taking her bag for her. “It’s amazing you made it this far with your powers so stable, you know?”

She gave him a look. “It’s evolution.”

“Yes, well, we helped it along more than a bit, and often, Mother Nature doesn’t like that. Here. I got this for your hair.”

He produced a small plumeria bloom from his pocket, likely cut from the tree in the pot on his office’s balcony. The faded white and yellow matched its coloring.

She raised an eyebrow. “You playing the race card?”

Although she had been created in a test tube and developed in an artificial womb in Brazil, all of her genetic sources had been native Hawai’ian in origin. His reasoning had been largely incidental―a simple experiment to see whether homogeneity affected the success rate of the Eurynome Project Programs.

But this wasn’t the first plumeria she’d received.

“They’re thinking of offering you a scholarship in one of Nova’s universities, but you are not the only one being considered. They are also hesitant because of what you can do.”

“They’re afraid I’ll end the world,” she said. “And their world, specifically, because I’ll be located on Nova and going through the usual unpredictable emotional binge of a college student out for her first years of independence.”

“Yes,” he said.

“That’s stupid. My powers are an asset to my studies.

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