Exceptional by Jess Petosa

Author:Jess Petosa [Petosa, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B007D3SPYK
Goodreads: 13501974
Publisher: Jess Petosa
Published: 2012-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

THE BIKE MOVED QUICKLY through the streets but not fast enough that Ally felt afraid. The Exceptionals and Ordinarys moved out of their way, and soon they were zipping through the City Center and into the factory district. As they rode on, Luke explained over his shoulder that this was where many of the foods, lumber, and textiles were produced once supplies came in from the settlements. There was also an electric factory and a waste disposal building here. Ally thought the buildings looked old and dirty, but they were one of the main reasons the City had functioned as well as it had.

It took them thirty minutes to drive the bike to the Lake. When they arrived and Luke stopped the bike, Ally hopped off and ran to the edge of a concrete walk. It circled around the Lake, and there were signs that a short wall of some sort used to rise around it as well. Concrete rubble was strewn about in both large and small chunks.

“Wow,” was the first descriptive word that came out of her mouth.

Luke laced his fingers through hers and looked out over the Lake. “It’s fascinating, isn’t it?”

“Sabine said that in the old world, boats used to drive on it and people would swim in it. She said it was big, but I don’t think I realized just how big.”

The Lake stretched as far out as she could see. To her right she could see one of the City boundary walls jutting out into the water. It went out about twenty yards before cutting off completely. She looked to the left but couldn’t seen the boundary wall on that side, which meant it was some distance away.

“I wonder what is on the other side.”

“More Wilderness,” Luke answered. “There is no way to cross it anymore.”

Ally had seen lakes and large bodies of water in some of the movies they had watched, and this Lake bore no resemblance to them. Green weeds grew in tangled knots along the shore, and the water closest to them sat stagnant with green moss on top. Further out, she could see some water moving against the blanket of green, but just barely. For a brief moment the moss reminded her of Stosh. It was the same color as his eyes, and her own.

“What happened to it?” she asked.

Luke shrugged. “The first generation of Exceptionals didn’t find it a priority for care when they were getting the City back in order. Humans in the old world used to fish out of it, which was another source of food we could have used, but the maintenance was too time consuming. Eventually, it began to look like this, so technically it is now more of a marsh than a lake.”

“Thanks for bringing me,” she said. “It is like nothing I’ve ever seen.”

“I think everyone needs to see it at least once,” he said as turned away from the water. “Come on, I want to show you something over here.”

He led her down the concrete path and to a small, stone building that overlooked the Lake.

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