Inferno 2033 Book Two: Perdition by Michael Compton & Sherry J. Compton & Allan J. Walsh

Author:Michael Compton & Sherry J. Compton & Allan J. Walsh [Compton, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Action, adventure, military, Dystopian
Publisher: The Journey Press, LLC
Published: 2018-03-11T22:00:00+00:00

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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection—they have many friends and few enemies.

—Wendell Phillips

Sands grabbed Victoria again by the wrist and dragged her out of the Vestibule, away from electronic eyes. Once they were out of sight she snatched her arm away.

“I’m not used to being manhandled.”

“So start talking.”

“Don’t do it again. You might not like what happens next.”

Tough talk for a former student government nerd, Sands thought, but he could see she was serious. “Fair enough.”

If she wanted an apology, she didn’t get one. This wasn’t the Sands she used to know, the one she could embarrass with a flirty look back at Stanford.

“I don’t know where to begin…”

“Start with Einstein.”

She smiled thinly. “Uncle Buddy. That’s what we used to call him, even my father. Whenever he visited the house he’d bring Todd and me some crazy treat he’d cooked up in his laboratory—licorice flavored spaghetti, bananas that tasted like ice cream.”

“So the Doctor was interested in that kind of stuff?”

“Not really. Not at first, anyway. But Uncle Buddy had a way of taking the most outlandish ideas and making them real. Like, you might think an exploding walnut is a stupid idea, but they make perfect little grenades. Imagine a terrorist carrying a bagful of them through airport security right onto a plane.”

“I’d rather imagine how you’re telling me stuff I need to know.”

“The point is, Father saw how useful Uncle Buddy could be. He loved to feed him ideas, just to see what he would do with them. But Father could never control him. The trick was always to let him do his work without risking him going freelance.”

“So Dr. Brzinski locks him away here, but gives him free reign over his own Frankenstein’s laboratory.”

“My father’s insane. You saw what he tried to do to me.”

“Come on, what could daddy’s little girl possibly do to get him to turn on you like that?”

“Please. My father suffered me for two reasons only. He respected my intelligence and he thought he could use me to lure you into the fold.” Victoria’s face reddened. “I only played along because…” She looked away.

Sands had never seen Victoria vulnerable before—at least not when she had full possession of her faculties. She had always been so calculated in her emotional displays, he wondered if he could trust it.

“Why? Why did your father want me?”

“Because you’re everything Todd is not. Everything my Father is not, for that matter. My father worships strength. He wanted Thor for a son, but what he got was Loki. When you betrayed him—”

“I never did.”

“In his eyes, you did. Anyway, I’d say you broke his heart, if I thought he had a heart.”

“So what did you do? To break his heart?”

“There was a plot against his life.”

“You knew about it? And you didn’t tell him?”

“I was part of it.”

Sands chewed on that. He wondered what could make a child turn against her own father. To want him dead. Even a father like Henry Brzinski.

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