Live in Infamy by Caroline Tung Richmond

Author:Caroline Tung Richmond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2018-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

Ren tilted his head toward Plank. “Zara St. James?” he mouthed.

She nodded shakily, without speaking. Ren had never seen her look so startled. “How did they find her?”

Ren didn’t know. Deputy Führer Forst had told the crown prince that the Nazis were tracking Zara’s movements along the border, but Ren never thought that Zara would get caught. Let alone by Imperial Japan.

Staring through the grate again, Ren flinched at how helpless Zara looked, strapped down and unconscious. He grimly considered what the Empire had planned for her. Zara was one of the most powerful Anomalies in both territories, possessing two terrifying powers — the ability to manipulate the air and create lighting bolts in her hands. So it was strange that Crown Prince Katsura had kept Zara at the Fortress instead of locking her up in Alcatraz or turning her over to the Nazis. The Empire knew how desperate the Nazis were to find her, but the crown prince might have kept her as a political pawn. After all, he had bargained off his daughter to seal the V2 deal with the Germans and he needed a new piece of leverage — and maybe that was Zara.

A sick feeling roiled in Ren’s stomach. Did Crown Prince Katsura plan on experimenting on her, too?

Plank bumped shoulders with Ren. “We have to go. We can’t get caught here.”

“What about Zara, though?”

“We can’t exactly take her with us.”

Ren didn’t move. How could they leave her like this? “We need to talk.”

Plank pursed her lips into a flat line. “Fine, but not here.”

Together, they wound their way back the way they came, with their lone flashlight leading every move. They climbed the staircase to the main floor and slipped back into the storage closet. Once Ren pushed the bookshelf back into place, he sat down on a pile of textbooks, right there in the closet. He didn’t want to wait any longer to discuss what they had seen.

“What are we going to do about Zara St. James?” he said.

Shutting the closet door, Plank hushed him even though he had whispered. “It isn’t our job to save her. Our mission is to kidnap Aiko. Period.” She refused to sit down next to him, opting to use the time to straighten her blouse and reposition the bobby pins in her hair, repairing her professional armor.

“Who says we can’t do both — kidnap Aiko and rescue Zara? We can’t leave her in that room to rot, and we don’t know if the Empire will move her to another facility. This could be our only chance.”

Plank tackled her glasses next, wiping the lenses with a handkerchief from her pocket. “Think about what you’re proposing. There are only two of us embedded inside the Fortress, and even if Jay were alive, our chances of kidnapping Aiko and making it out of the hotel have always been middling. And I can guarantee you that our chances will go down to nothing if we decide to break out Zara, too. It’ll be suicide.

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