Eternity (Memory's Children Book 1) by Clay Gilbert

Author:Clay Gilbert [Gilbert, Clay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Moon Press
Published: 2017-09-19T23:00:00+00:00

Why don’t I just take off? Just let one of the others have the job. Let Sentinel have it. He’d do better than me, anyway. I can’t handle them.

But he knew it was a lie. He had to deal with Them, had to defeat them. Ace hadn’t been able to, even though he’d tried. Just maybe, fire and razor-edged cool wasn’t what it took to beat them. Did the Prophet know? Was that part of the vision, part of the uncertain future he had been unable to foresee?

Ace was predictable, in a way. Maybe I’m the wild card. But what part of me is that strong?

* * * * Emily watched the building from among the crowd gathered outside—watched until she was the only one left. Satisfied that their leader wouldn’t be harmed for another night, they’d gone their way.

The key gleamed, a cold star shining in her hand. He would be asleep now. It’d be easy. A mirror image of her parents’ deaths, except forthe madglaze of fearover open, dead eyes. Fear flashed through her, but she shoved it down.

He killed them. He’s an enemy of the people. They never kill people sleeping in their beds. They never kill innocents. Only his people do that.

Once she made her way inside, the rest was easy. The elevator panel had a security clearance built in, but her training made it easy to hack.

Someone’s using an old system, but then, who around here would have a key they weren’t supposed to have? She smiled to herself.

She spotted the door soon after stepping off the elevator. Taking a deep and shuddering breath, she fitted the key in the lock and slowly pushed the door open.

No noise, she told herself.

Dammit, Eternity thought. Why can’t I sleep? I’m gonna be no good to anyone if I’m a freaking zombie. A clicking noise made him sit straight up—a sound so small that someone who hadn’t spent night after night memorizing the sound of every shift and creak in the Hall might have missed.

He started from the bed, threw on his clothes and grabbed his lasgunfrom its customaryresting place onhis nightstand. The hall outside his bedroom was dark, but he heard footsteps as faint but distinct as the sound outside the door had been. He heard them again, still muffled—

Then all at once, they were crystal clear. Eternity sucked in a breath of fire as he felt pain flare in his back, and spun around, firing in reflex to defend against another attack. He was surprised to see a girl on the floor, the gun she’d used against him lying to one side while she clutched her leg in pain. But he was shocked when he realized who she was.

Her auburn hair was longer now, almost shoulder-length, but her eyes revealed her identity: this was the newsperson who’d so suddenly vanished from the screencasts, the one he’d watched when he still called the Black City his home.

There were tears in the sea-green eyes—the same ones Eternity remembered so clearly from the screencasts—but she didn’t make a sound, just fixed an angry look on him.

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