Meta (Book 3): Rise of The Circle by Reynolds Tom

Author:Reynolds, Tom [Reynolds, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction | Superheroes
Published: 2015-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

21

So it turns out that Doctor Hawk is just an old guy named Leonard Hawk who has a Ph.D. in Law. He's not, as I imagined in my mind, a seven-foot-tall half-man, half-bird metahuman. This is maybe the most crippling disappointment I've experienced since I got here.

The classroom looks similar to the “real” ones upstairs, with the notable exception that this one looks like it was designed this century. There's no chalk or white board. Instead, a high-definition touchscreen display covers the entire wall at the front of the classroom.

In the classroom, I see a lot of familiar faces from the few days I've been here already. According to Michelle, this is one of the mandatory classes that all metahumans here have to take. There's not enough room for everyone to take it at once, since apparently the class lends itself to lots of questions that take up a big chunk of the classroom time, but by the time everyone graduates, they'll have come through at least once.

Just because the faces are familiar doesn't mean they're all friendly. Just about everyone who was out in the woods the other night was caught and punished, and of course, rather than blame Nathaniel or themselves for being out there in the first place, they blame me. In fairness, they had been hanging out in the caverns for weeks without anyone on the faculty having any idea, so I'll concede that technically it was me who got them all caught.

The display wall is showing multiple television channels from all over the world, as well as half a dozen lines of scrolling text with different news items. I'm amazed anyone can concentrate on their own pre-class conversations with the information overload happening in front of us. Represented on the screen, I can see all of the major meta news channels, as well as some overseas channels that I'm not familiar with.

The channels are a mix of talking heads and shaky camera phone footage of metahumans flying, running into burning buildings and fighting each other. My eyes scan over all of the screens, half expecting to see Derrick's big head on one of them, giving his insights about everything that's been happening in Bay View City live via satellite to a host. I don't find him, but my eyes do get caught on something.

It's previously recorded footage of the prison break at Silver Island, footage that I've seen countless times. When Derrick and Michelle had me under virtual house arrest, it was pretty much all that was on TV all day, every day. Even if it hadn't been on TV constantly, I would have still seen it hundreds of times on my tablet. After the breakout, I was obsessed with it and with trying to find some detail that everyone else was missing, some clue that gave any kind of idea about what the Alphas’ weaknesses might be, or just a clue about what happened to Midnight, especially before Sarah told me that he was still alive.

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