Emergence (Eden's Root Trilogy) by Fisher Rachel

Author:Fisher, Rachel [Fisher, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

Surprises

--------- Fi ---------

Cold rain pounded the roof of the Wal-Mart. Sleeping bags stuffed with the resting Army of Eden lined the aisles in haphazard clusters. Though the store had been heavily looted, they’d found a handful of metal garden tubs, lending the beauty of fire to their shelter. The makeshift fire pits were too small to create any real heat, but a little light was always heartening.

Of course, anything would’ve been better than a second more in that freezing slop, Fi thought. There was nothing like the combo of snow and thunderstorms to make progress an unbearable misery. The first time she’d trudged through a late spring blizzard with the Family, she’d been totally freaked out when thunder clapped overhead. They’d been marching all night and she’d panicked, thinking she was sleepwalking...or losing her mind. But when everyone else jumped at the lightning her brain kicked back in and she told them all to hit the deck. They’d crawled behind some rocks that made it seem like they were sheltered from the lightning, though they weren’t.

She never forgot it — how the snow came so fast that it was slapping down in whole coats at a time. The Family had huddled together for warmth while the men took turns digging them out of the deepening snow. It was twelve grueling hours before that storm blew itself out. And in the end, the rocks had saved them, by shoring up a break in the drifts. Otherwise they might have been buried, despite the men’s best efforts.

She shivered. It wasn’t her favorite memory. Her feet tapped against the floor anxiously as she sat in the café booth. She’d come here for a moment of comfort away from the press of the Army. It brought back happier memories of shopping with her mother, Maggie. Well, tagging along really, she’d been so small. Maggie always found it the height of amusement that at five Fi enjoyed her pretzels with a healthy layer of spicy mustard, but it was still her favorite condiment.

Or it would be, she thought, if it still existed. After the Famine she’d found it rather a shame that there were so many packets of yellow mustard and no spicy pretzel mustard. Her stomach growled. Gotta think about something else.

Unfortunately, every time she let her mind wander, it would creep its way back to the looming reality. They were only a half-day’s hike from Camp Truth. Even though this rain-sleet-snowfall crap would make for a hard, muddy trek tomorrow, it wouldn’t stop them. No matter what happened, she and Sara would begin their counterattack on the Truthers. And so it begins, she thought, for the millionth time that day.

“Um, Fi?”

She turned to see a familiar face. Hannah Lemly. Of course. The girl had been like a reverse shadow for a week now. Reverse because there was nothing dark about her. It was like being followed by Tinkerbell. Fi wouldn’t have been shocked to see a set of iridescent wings sprout from the girl’s back.

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