Fall of Heroes by Kraatz Jeramey

Author:Kraatz, Jeramey [Kraatz, Jeramey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
ISBN: 9780062095558
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

13

BLACKOUT

They stayed above the seemingly endless quilt of dense gray clouds as they soared across the city. At first Alex had trouble breathing normally, but he soon got the hang of it. He couldn’t help but let all his anxieties and fears float away, into the night air that chapped his lips and kept his eyes half-squinted. Every so often the cover would break, and suddenly he had stunning views of places in Sterling City he’d never seen before. He wondered how Kirbie ever managed to stay on the ground when she could have views like this all the time.

It took them almost half an hour to get to Silver Lake, the northernmost neighborhood in the city. When they got close, Kirbie let out a shrill call and they began to descend. Alex whipped out the device Gage had given him, scanning the area around them.

“I’m not getting anything on thermal yet,” he shouted so Kirbie could hear. Then, taking a closer look at the screen, he squinted in confusion. “Wait, that can’t be right. . . .”

Before he could investigate further, they were flying through the clouds, the thick, damp air filling his lungs. And when they finally emerged into the open, he saw that the device hadn’t been malfunctioning. Far ahead of them were the house and garage on Silver Lake. Or at least, it was the place where these buildings had been. Now there was nothing but embers and thick black smoke.

Kirbie let out another call, breaking Alex’s stunned silence. He looked back and forth between the ground and the device in his hands.

“I’m not seeing anyone,” he said. “Just the burning buildings.”

Still, Kirbie circled the site a few times before landing near the edge of the water, where the dock had jutted out into the private cove. Now the dock was gone, leaving a few splintered boards behind. Half the water was still frozen over from the day before, the other half a slushy, melted mess.

“I didn’t see anyone either,” Kirbie said after she morphed back into her human form and started making her way up the sloping bank. Thick curls of black smoke swirled upward all around them as Alex followed. They passed the propeller from the boat that had been sitting in the garage the last time Alex had seen it. Now it was wedged into a tree a dozen yards away. He recognized the destruction that Barrage’s powers could cause. A mixture of fire and pressure and explosive force that broke apart everything it touched.

The garage had been leveled. It was nothing but a pile of debris smoking on top of a black foundation. Alex’s thoughts tore over the scorched pieces of wood and metal and concrete, picking through the destroyed building and sending embers and ash flying. His face and hands stung as tiny bits of orange rested on them, fading to dark gray smudges. In a few moments he’d dismantled the shell of the garage that remained and began sifting through

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