Entangled by Amy Rose Capetta

Author:Amy Rose Capetta
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The homecoming was less than Cade hoped for.

Rennik and Lee straggled into the main cabin. They had worked feverish-hard to get Cade back, and now they were treating her like a biohazard. Rennik wavered on his feet. Lee kept a meaningful distance. Renna was taut and silent, waiting it out until Cade’s place on the ship was sorted. Gori stared down at the whole thing from his bunk.

“What happened?” Rennik asked.

“Ayumi . . .” Cade waited as the girl stumbled across the dock. “We got clipped by the thruster of another ship, took a bad rattle. She passed out.”

Ayumi’s step bobbled deep, and she almost fell.

“You lost consciousness while flying?” Rennik asked, rushing to help. He laced an arm under Ayumi’s and led her to the bottom of the chute, where he helped her sit while he frowned at her head.

“Oh, utterly,” Ayumi said, catching on to Cade’s game and playing it with all the enthusiasm of a bad liar. “But it’s nothing to worry about. All reversible damage. Not even damage! Nondamage. I’m entirely to blame. I kept Cadence busy talking when I should have kept an eye on the shipping lane. I checked and double-checked and triple-checked the course, but incoming ships can move so fast and—”

Cade cleared her throat. Now that Ayumi had gummed the air with words, Cade remembered how much she needed to say. It had all been building in her since she faced the white of Hymnia.

She crossed to Lee, took her by the shoulders, and started with the truth.

“I was never lying when I told you there’s someone I need to save. But he’s not my brother. He and I are . . .” Cade didn’t know how to say it except to say it. There was only one word for this in the whole universe—no translation.

“He and I are entangled.”

That was what she owed Lee. Not a string of apologies like that same flat note blasted over and over. The truth, in all of its shining complicated harmonies. It was the one thing she’d owed Lee—and anyone she wanted to call a friend—from the start. She could only hope that saying it now would be enough.

Her words met a wall of blankness. Everyone stared at her. No one seemed to know what to say.

“Entangled?” Lee asked, with a steep double-eyebrow spike. “Is that some prettified way of saying you and this boy are . . .?”

“No.” Cade lost a bit of her measured cool and fired up, cheeks first. “No, no. We’re quantum entangled—it means we’re connected to each other, particle for particle. It was done when we were babies. In a lab.”

Lee’s eyebrows spiked higher.

Cade’s voice—and her sureness—faltered. She needed to explain all of it better than she was now.

“The Unmakers are our enemies,” she said, using Mr. Niven’s words. “They want to stop us from what we’re meant to do.”

“And what’s that?”

“I wasn’t sure for a long time. When Ayumi told me about Earth, that helped.” Cade still didn’t understand it completely, and when she thought about the hugeness of it, she could hear the blood in her ears.

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