Here Lies Love by Thompson Dan

Author:Thompson, Dan [Thompson, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Autumn Orchard
Published: 2014-06-14T07:00:00+00:00

For the rest of the day, Abbey looked through more of the books Tristan had stored on the shelves from his own scavenger hunts around the abandoned school. There were plenty that didn’t contain any pictures at all. For the first few, she made an attempt at trying to read the first page, but her brain couldn’t comprehend any of the information within; she just didn’t possess the skill. Plus, it made her head hurt. For the ones that did have pictures, Abbey managed to further her knowledge somewhat of animals. There were many that looked angry or aggressive, as well as some that appeared strange, alien even, as if they were from another planet, a world up in skies beyond the reaches of the blue haze.

Abbey thought it was fair to say that the animals were from a different planet. Earth was no longer the green, lush, fertilised world it had once been, Tristan had taught her that. These animals were from a different time; a lost world that Abbey would never get the chance of discovering.

She had explored some of the lower rooms in the school too, but didn’t come across anything noteworthy. Legless tables, rotten wood, rubble – all artefacts from a place that had been lost to the vaults of history long ago. For some strange reason, she always found herself back staring up at the statue in the hallway entrance of the school; the bearded man, she’d come to know him as. She had no idea who it was supposed to be, another relic to add to the time capsule she was beginning to unearth. Everything was so grey and dull and faded. It was beginning to give her a headache. Cobwebs had covered the dangling light appliances, but it wasn’t as if they could work again.

Her gran had once talked to her about electricity; a blue current that was highly dangerous to humans, but could be used to power machines, as well as give lighting inside buildings. Her father’s lighthouse had once used this hidden power to shine into the darkness and guide boats ashore, but Abbey assumed at some point, way before she was born, electricity must have turned its back on mankind too. Maybe her ancestors took its sacredness for granted and it wriggled off in search of a better home?

Tristan had wanted to accompany her on her exploration, but the tension of sharing a room with the two boys had become somewhat claustrophobic. She needed to be free to wander the derelict halls and investigate things for herself. There was only so much she could learn from books. Reconnoitring and investigating was an undertaking her brain could cope with. It was annoying how her mood flipped; one minute not wanting to be alone, scared of the unknown, and the next trying to avoid any company. Abbey didn’t know who she was anymore. The evolution from dependant to sole living should have been more fluent, but Abbey had had it forced onto her by her father.

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