Dust 2_A New World Order by S. E. Smith

Author:S. E. Smith [Smith, S. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montana Publishing
Published: 2018-07-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Unexpected request:

Daciana stared at the unusual boy across from her. Over the course of the last few weeks, she had sensed the changes occurring inside herself. Some were on a physical level, but most were on a mental one.

She had time to absorb and think about the information she learned at the compound where she was born. Repressed memories had grown stronger and clearer along with her rethinking her encounter with Dust and the little boy known as Todd.

Her purpose at this complex had been to find out more about who she was and the woman who made her. As she had drawn closer, her connection with Dust alerted her to the danger he was in. The connection between them had perhaps been born from the supernatural forces that had altered them. Whatever caused the connection was irrelevant at the moment.

Daciana understood that if these insects flourished, all creatures on the planet would be doomed to extinction—including herself and Dust. She looked up at the mass trying to get to them. They were as hungry for her and Dust’s power as she had been at one time for his.

“We must destroy these creatures. They will wipe out all life if we do not,” she said, looking back at him.

“That sounds good to me. How do you propose we do that? Even Josie’s fire wasn’t enough to kill them,” he said with a doubtful expression.

“Individually, we do not have the strength, but combined we do,” Daciana stated.

“What do you suggest?” Dust asked with a wary look.

She looked down at her hands before looking up at him again. “I am aging rapidly.” She didn’t expect him to take her next comment very well. “I need your blood to stop it. In return, my blood will give you the power to kill these bugs,” she explained.

His eyes widened but he didn’t immediately balk against the idea. Instead, she watched him swallow and rub his hands uneasily along his jeans. She glanced up at the shield. It was beginning to compress around them with the weight of the insects pressing down on the bubble of energy.

“Preferably before we are eaten alive,” she suggested.

“Why don’t you just kill them?” he asked in a voice laced with suspicion.

Daciana gave him a rueful smile. “Because I would kill myself in the process and I have found that I have no desire to die. The more energy I expend, the more accelerated my aging rate becomes in a short period of time,” she admitted.

Dust gave her a critical look. She could tell that he was comparing how she looked now to what she looked like when they first met. She no longer looked like a teenage girl, but a young woman in her early twenties. At the rate she was aging, she would be an old woman in a few years.

“Fine,” he said, giving her a sharp nod.

Daciana released a relieved breath, and studied his face as she stepped closer to him. She placed her hand on his waist and drew him closer.

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