K. A. Applegate - Everworld 09 by Inside The Illusion

Author:Inside The Illusion
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I said, “What an original thought, Jalil. I wonder if that rationalization has ever been used before? We have to kill to stop the killing. We have to be depraved to stop the depravity.

Yeah, I wonder if anyone has ever thought that up before.”

Jalil didn’t answer, just dug his oars into the water and forced David to counter his ill-timed stroke.

“It’s all funny to you, isn’t it. Senna?” April said. “It’s all a joke.

You don’t understand the idea of a conscience. Right and wrong is all a big joke to you.”

Time for a counterstroke. Is it? “At least I have a plan, April. I could give myself over to Loki and let him break through into the real world. It would be the easy thing to do. But I resist, don’t I? I resist and I plan for a better Everworld, an Everworld that is not a threat to the real world.”

“Maybe you should let us in on your plan someday,”

Christopher sneered. “Because as far as I know your plan seems to be to screw over everyone you run into, trash everyone and everything, play everyone against everyone else until you’re the only one left standing. Maybe I missed some subtleties.”

I hid a smile. No, I thought silently, you have it exactly right. I felt very good all of a sudden. It was al going to work. I could feel it. How long would it take? Years? Months? It didn’t matter.

I knew it. It had worked for me before. After all, Everworld was not the first place I had come to as a stranger, an outcast, a despised intruder.

That first time I had come into a strange, unknown world driven in a limousine, sitting belted in across from the shaken, nervous man who was my father.

It was my first time in a limousine. The driver had raised the privacy glass so my father could talk freely. But my father had very little to say. He bit a thumbnail and looked out of tinted windows at dim streetlights as we sped north from Chicago.

He was a trapped man. I saw that, even then. I knew he was afraid. That reassured me. I was afraid, too. If we were both afraid then he was not greater than I.

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