Hybrid by K. T. Hanna

Author:K. T. Hanna [Hanna, K. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Adult
Goodreads: 26200237
Publisher: Amaranthine Press
Published: 2015-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

The Mobile is bustling with activity when Dom arrives. He leaves Mele safely in the parking bay and makes his way to Mathur’s quarters. Several hours away from the city, even as fast as Mele can travel, isn’t nearly far enough out. Dom frowns at the risk.

The sun is high in the sky, so he’s is surprised when he finds Mathur’s quarters dark. “Mathur?” he calls out tentatively. “Mat, you’ve got to wake up. Something bad has happened.”

The old man isn’t there. Perhaps he’s in his lab. He couldn’t have been so stupid as to go with the scouting team. That would be absurd.

He finds his creator hunched over his workstation, fiddling with some sort of scalpel-type instrument at the base of a domino’s skull. Jeffries murmurs instructions at him from off to the side.

Dom clears his throat to get attention, while trying his best not to eye what looks like his twin laid prone on the table like an experiment.

“Dom?” Mathur scrunches up his brow as if confused by his appearance. “I thought you were...well, not here.”

“You sent out a scouting mission?” Dom doesn’t have time to make small talk. In fact, he has no time to do anything. “Already?”

“Well, yes.” Mathur puts down the instrument.

“I need to get Sai. We can go out and see if any of them survived.”

“What?” The color drains from Mathur’s face, and he sits himself in the chair at his desk. “What do you mean, survived?”

Dom shrugs. Impatience encourages the darker part of him, and it’s all he can do to push it down. “Pretty much the exact definition. Your scouting team encountered the Damascus scouting team, but there may be a couple of the Exiled still alive. Sai can come and get them with me—about half of her isn’t as susceptible to the heat. And she can help heal them.”

“Dom...” A layer of sweat breaks out on Mathur’s forehead. “Sai was with them. Sai and Mason.”

“What?” Dom quickly quashes the fear that rises inside, the anger that threatens to let the darkness claim him, and recalculates a few things in his head. “How far did you send them out?”

“About eighteen hours,” Jeffries interjects, apparently aware that Mathur isn’t completely up to speed at the moment. “We sent them north for in an E-27 model transport.”

Dom nods. About ten hours in Mele. “If they managed to get back into the transport and leave, they should be here by midnight. If not...it doesn’t matter when we find them, they’ll all be dead.” He refuses to let himself think about it any further than that. There’s not a lot to be done but go and figure what can be salvaged. If Sai... He stops himself. He can’t have saved her for this to happen; she has to be there. He needs her to survive.

“I’ll head out in Mele. If I can tow them back or help in anyway, I will. If I can’t find them, we know what happened.” He doesn’t tell them about the brilliant fiery pulse or the smaller person the lieutenant had dismissed as already dead.

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