GENERATION Z THE COMPLETE BOX SET: NOVELS 1-3 by Peter Meredith

Author:Peter Meredith [Meredith, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Jillybean caught Jenn as she fell, laid her down and studied her with her penetrating blue eyes. She was bent over Jenn and in her haze, she thought Jillybean was going to kiss her—and she did in a way. Jillybean touched her lips to Jenn’s forehead and muttered, “No fever.”

She then took up Jenn’s wrist, checked her pulse and declared it, “Normal. Could you describe your bowel movements for me?”

Mike Gunter took that exact moment to hurry over, having seen Jenn suddenly slump over. Jenn went red in the face. “No, I will not. They’re fine and I’m fine. It’s just I saw something earlier. A sign and…”

She stopped as the room seemed to just freeze. Whispered conversations ended abruptly and the only movement was the swinging of every head in her direction as all eyes were focused squarely on her. Jillybean, Mike, Diamond, Johanna, the poor, thin ex-slave Shaina Hale, and everyone else. They were all staring so unabashedly that it went beyond the border of civility and deep into being rude. Worse still, there was also what could only be called a religious fervor in many of their eyes and she knew that whatever she said would be taken as gospel.

Jenn faltered under the pressure, unable to finish her sentence. What if she were wrong? What if the smoke was just smoke and the crows were just crows? What if they followed her blindly and she led them straight to their deaths? What if they found out the truth? What if they found out that she was just a girl? What if they found out how unlucky she was?

Jillybean saw the sudden indecision and the fright in her eyes. “We’re not going to discuss this here,” she said, softly. “We’ll talk once we have finished our work.”

“Yes, that’d be good,” Jenn agreed, looking down and away, anywhere but at the many hungry eyes. She was so eager not to be the center of attention that she pointed at the boy in the delirium. “You said he’s next?”

For a second, Jillybean hesitated, wishing she could sit Jenn down and stamp out the ridiculous supernatural notions pervading her mind. But there was still the greater good to think about, although just then the idea of using the people’s sad gullibility against them, felt like the greater evil.

She needed them to go to San Francisco and she needed them to get there quickly. If Jenn’s vision could be used to get them there faster, she would have to embrace it. If not, she would resort to logic. In other words, she had to “play” Jenn like an instrument and it would take a delicate hand. Jenn was no fool.

“Yes, and we have one more after him. We’ll need Mike’s help to hold them still.” Jillybean laid out a recently sterilized surgical set and, for just a moment, Jenn had the hope that she would just go ahead and do the procedure herself. Instead, she held out a scalpel. “We start with the first incision.

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