Kinetics: In Search of Willow by Arbor Winter Barrow

Author:Arbor Winter Barrow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure, alien, powers

CHAPTER 21

I never really thought about destiny catching up with me. I feel though that my destiny was less like a hound making its way noisily towards me, but like an agile cat, stalking me in the jungle of my own decisions. I never really thought about it until destiny tore out my soul’s jugular. – Rei Akito. From her treatise on being a soldier in the Second Great Kinetic War

We drove until we got to a gas station in Roswell and Laura stopped to put gas in the truck. She had been crying in silence the whole way, looking more and more like a shell shock victim than someone who should be driving.

The fact that a senseless death had just taken place made me feel like one too, even though I knew I would never get close to what Laura must be feeling. With her losing her whole family in the split seconds that she did, I could only cup my forehead in my hands and listen to the storm that ravaged the windshield for too short a time. We left the wall of rain and entered sunlight only a few miles from the interstate. The small isolated storm behind us looked even more unnatural in the dawn sunlight. It was no more than seven in the morning when we stopped for gas, but it felt unfair that such a beautiful day should meet us now. The storm had come and gone but left far too much destruction in its path.

Harry was sure the Alliance wouldn't be caught off guard like that for long. I had few doubts that reinforcements had come in not long after we had left. And to top it all off, Laura was stuck with us now. There was little doubt that by now her brother was most likely dead. She was now alone in the world. She told us she had no extended family, both of her parents had been only children and their parents were already long gone from this world.

While she refilled the truck with a tear-streaked stoic mask, Harry and I stepped out, he to call his dad and I to find something to take the edge off the burning headache building between my eyes.

I browsed the aisles in the truck stop where we had stopped and found only overpriced aspirin. I frowned at the fist-sized package and put it back where I had found it. I let loose a curse, startling the sleepy-looking cashier.

"Sorry," I muttered, left the building, and went and sat in the cab of the truck. Laura was done pumping gas and was sitting in the seat quietly gripping the steering wheel with white knuckles. She stared intensely forward, her eyes in some far off place.

I let my gaze travel around to where I could see Harry having a heated conversation on the phone inside. His face was flushed and he was waving his one free hand in dramatic gestures. I had rarely seen Harry angry, but whatever he was talking about on the phone with his Dad was more than making him angry.

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