Mimi of the Nowhere by Michael Kilman

Author:Michael Kilman [Kilman, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Loridian's Laboratory LLC
Published: 2018-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Recycled Runners

TWO DAYS PASSED. DURING the time, Mimi scored some more Likatol to manage the voices, visited the library, and began training with the women of the Order.

The training wasn’t terribly difficult. She practiced scanning minds and learned to transmit some of her thoughts to some of the other women. Her thoughts and her focus never strayed far from Shannon. Still, there was no word.

At the end of every day, quarters were offered, sometimes in the library, sometimes with one of her other sisters. She never felt right taking the offer. Her bed still smelled like Shannon and each night returning home, she found herself curling up against the blankets and crying.

On the third night after Shannon’s abduction, Mimi lay on her back, turning the events of Shannon’s abduction over in her mind. What could she have done differently? What could she have possibly changed? Perhaps if she would have just been with Shannon, then the whole mess could have been avoided?

There was a thick layer of guilt. The weight of it pressed against her chest and made her feel hollowed out. If only she hadn’t scared Shannon, hurt her.

She thought of Daniel and the others before her, all the way back to the loss of her mother. The only theme that seemed to reoccur in her life was the loss of loved ones, and in every case, it was her fault. As tears clung to the corner of her eyes, she thought that perhaps she should tell her sisters in the Order that they too would all be doomed if she stuck around. They had been kind to her so far. Mimi was a threat to that kindness.

In that moment, long past the hour of designated dark, in the dim light of the underground where she lived, Mimi resolved to quit the moment Shannon was free. Then, she would ask the sisters to watch over Shannon and disappear into the underground for a while. Her poisonous touch was just too dangerous to continue spreading. Perhaps it was time she seriously considered ending her life.

As it sometimes did, despair took her. It gripped her heart and began to squeeze tight, filling up all the spaces in her heart where love and hope and goodness could live. She sobbed. It was light at first and then violent. She moaned and clenched her jaws and yelled loudly into the night. She cursed the gods and the devils and whatever else was out there. Then she began to look around for something sharp to cut the pain out. A surgical strike. In the corner, she saw the instrument she used to clean the fish. She moved toward it.

A rustling outside. Mimi froze, ears listening.

A crash and a clang of something metal on concrete. Mimi was up in a flash, ready to fight, ready to resist. Her pain augmented her anger, and for one of the first times in her life, Mimi felt ready to draw blood. There was blood in her eyes. She reached for her cutting tool and gripped it firmly.

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