Into The Fire (The Ending Series) by Fairleigh Lindsey & Pogue Lindsey

Author:Fairleigh, Lindsey & Pogue, Lindsey [Fairleigh, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: L2 Books
Published: 2013-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

16

DANI

MARCH 18, 1AE

Dr. Wesley studied me, her gaze sharp and unwavering. I was in her office, again, sitting on her small, unyielding sofa, again—but unlike the last time, I wasn’t lost in a haze of pain. I was paying attention. The décor was as stark and no-nonsense as the doctor herself, lacking any embellishments or personal touches.

Dr. Wesley sat behind her wide, wooden desk, looking as exhausted as she’d sounded the previous day, and I felt a little guilty about the arsenal of questions I’d just launched at her. Anything and everything I could think to ask about the Re-gens, her work in the Colony, and the Colony in general had erupted from my mouth.

“I’ll answer your questions,” she finally conceded, and I squirmed under the intensity of her stare. “But nothing I tell you gets written down.” She made a shooing motion in my direction. “Put that away.”

I glanced down at the small notebook on my lap. Later, when my Ability finally came back online, I was planning to relay everything I’d learned over the past day and a half to Zoe, Jason, and the others, and it would be a whole lot easier if I was able to take notes. But, once the doctor pointed it out, I realized it was one of the dumbest ideas I’d had in a long time—and dumb ideas seemed to have become my specialty lately. Absently, I hoped Jason wasn’t too worried about the fact that I hadn’t checked in with him this morning. Fat chance…

Tucking the book into the blue- and green-striped canvas tote bag I’d found in my coat closet earlier that morning, I crossed my legs and nodded. “I just need answers, Dr. Wesley. This place is so…” I shook my head. “I feel like I’m losing it, and—”

The doctor’s wan face transformed as she laughed halfheartedly. I thought it might have been the saddest laugh I’d ever heard. “I understand,” she told me. “You feel like you need to be doing something, taking a stand, because everything around here is too unbelievably”—she raised her eyebrows—“awful…at least, under the surface. And you need more information to do whatever it is you’re thinking of doing.” After a short, contemplative pause, she added, “You and I…we’re not so different, Danielle. I bet you’d do anything—whatever it took—for the people you love. You’d pay any price, or exact it from others, just so long as it meant they would survive.”

I moved my head in a single, protracted nod. I suddenly felt an odd connection to her…an unexplainable familiarity.

“Just remember that you can’t fight if you’re dead. If you’re dead, you can’t do anything.”

Again, I nodded.

“Very well.” She took a long, deep breath. “The Re-gens are, for the most part, my greatest creation. Giving life to a being that has passed—there’s no greater form of redemption.”

“Wait…” I shook my head, utterly confused. “Are you saying…you can’t mean that the Re-gens died, and you brought them back to life? That’s—”

“Crazy? Impossible? Noli, si quid tibi effectu difficile, opinari, hominem id non posse praestare.

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