Eons Semester (The RIM Confederacy Book 8) by Rudnick Jim

Author:Rudnick, Jim [Rudnick, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: RUDNICK PRESS
Published: 2016-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

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David just sat there and didn’t say a thing.

The fact that he’d lost his own mother seven years ago was one thing.

Now, Kendal had just explained to him that he’d lost another family member—Aunt Mariam too.

Lost but not really. She’d tried to soften the blow and then it had all come out.

She had to explain about the Inner Circle and her own mother’s involvement with it decades ago. She’d had to explain how way back when she and Mariam had been just conceived, that the process of culling the set of twins into one superior Issian and one that in fact would be stillborn was a new procedure. That somehow a mistake had been made, and while she was the superior one, Mariam had still been born. But Mariam had lain in restraints for more than thirty years. Yet she could still mind link with Kendal, and that was such a hard thing to experience because while for her it freed her of the horrors of being a captive in the MedWards—for Kendal it made her that captive. She felt what Mariam felt. She knew what it was like as their minds engaged and she cried and spasmed over and over.

He had listened.

He had asked few questions.

He had wondered why they hadn’t just killed Mariam—an answer she did not have.

But then he’d gotten up and moved away from his chair at his net console and went to the rear-facing window. From here, one couldn’t see the dome, as it lay directly in front of the house, but only the whole of Aporia, as it stretched out to the far side of the city. He stared at the city skyline, nodded a couple of times, then came back to sit down once again, and looked at her.

“Aunt Kendal—I am so sorry about your twin. I had no idea, of course … and my mom never mentioned her either. That all said, I know it must be tough on you—but what I want to know is—why are you telling me this now?”

Smart boy, she thought, and she looked down at her palms. They were so dry usually, but now she could see the sheen of perspiration.

“I need your techie skills, David. I know that you were once a great leader over at the academy in their IT division, and I’m hoping that you can help me somewhat,” she said.

“What do you need, Aunt Kendal,” he said.

She explained that she was allowed only one trip a year into the MedWard to see Mariam. That she was never allowed in the room—actually on the secure wing itself. She saw her only through a side window, and it hurt her so much to see her twin imprisoned that she’d forgone some of her yearly visits. Too often. Too many times.

But she also knew that as she’d looked around the whole patient room, anywhere but at the thrashing twin tied to the bed, that there were cameras there. Many cameras.

So security—maybe via AI—she didn’t know, was high.

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