Infected by Littlefield Sophie

Author:Littlefield, Sophie [Littlefield, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, young adult, Action & Adventure, General
ISBN: 9780375983573
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-01-06T08:00:00+00:00

Two blocks from the BART station, City Hall rose up into the inky sky. The wide, grassy park in front of it was host to a few other people, despite the hour: homeless men and women huddling on benches and sleeping on sidewalks, a few drunks staggering along with their bottles gripped tightly.

Tanner and Carina had stopped to take a drink of water at a bench under a row of flags that flapped in the breeze.

“We ought to be freezing,” Carina said. She touched her arms and her skin was chilly¸ but inside, her heart was pushing blood through her system so efficiently that she felt warm. The tics were worsening; she could feel the twitching all over her body, like little electric currents were being applied to her skin. Exertion quelled them temporarily, but as soon as she stopped running, they started up again.

And they would only get worse.

“I’m hungry again,” Tanner replied. He dug in the pack and pulled out a couple of energy bars and a bottle of water. They ate and drank in silence, wolfing down the tasteless food, which barely took the edge off Carina’s hunger.

“At least we know one thing,” she said, after taking a deep drink from the water bottle. “You were right about the tracker on your phone. I can’t believe they didn’t get us at the apartment.”

“No.” Tanner shook his head. “It would have taken them a while. The bottleneck would have been in finding my number. I mean, I still can’t believe they were able to move that fast. You know how hard it is to get access to those records? They would have had to have access to the cell phone provider’s internal database, and there are so many levels of encryption on it that they would have had to get in a different way.”

“You mean—someone from inside was helping them?”

“Or someone powerful enough to get people out of bed requisitioned the records.”

“But who could do that? I mean … are you thinking it’s government?”

“I’m not thinking anything,” Tanner said, holding up his hands in protest. “Other than it’s someone with a scary amount of power.”

“Or someone with influence. Or money.”

“It keeps coming back to that, doesn’t it? Makes your head spin. Here.” He reached into the backpack and handed her the note from the locker.

“Again?” Carina sighed. “I feel like this is getting a little stupid. I mean, I wish Walter had just talked to me instead of leading us all over town.”

“He was trying to protect you. The less you knew … I mean, if everything hadn’t gotten so screwed up, you might have always believed they were working on some harmless nutrition project, and you could have gone on to live the perfect high school senior year.”

“Yeah,” Carina mumbled.

She opened the envelope and took out the note. At least this time there was no key, no cryptic next step. Smoothing the paper on her lap, she began to read using the streetlight above them.

My dear Carrie,

If you are reading this, then I must assume I am dead or as good as dead, and that things are dire.

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