Never Sleep by Cady Vance

Author:Cady Vance [Vance, Cady]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: genetics, insomnia, science fiction, new york city, robots, teens, action
Publisher: Sagan Press
Published: 2015-03-29T23:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

The Hypocretin is the neurotransmitter in the brain involved in the control of sleep. We monitor this in our Stage IV Insomniacs in hopes to develop a cure.

- The Chronic Insomnia Handbook for Patients

I jump up from my chair so fast the world spins. “What? Off? Over? What do you mean?” I try to calm the hysteria bubbling up inside me, but it feels as if it’s reached boiling point.

“I’m sorry. They’re locking things down.” Lucas shakes his head and looks down at his hands, palms wide and facing up like they’ve somehow failed him. “Apparently, there were about ten of you starting out, but the Sleepers have taken all but you two.” He levels his gaze with us. “They’re rather certain it’s what happened to Aiden, and after what happened with your brother…”

My heart trips in a painful beat, and I collapse back onto the folding chair. Everyone taken. The hunt over. My brother. The Clinic. I’ll never find out what’s wrong with me. No home to go back to. I groan and drop my head into my hands. I force out the next words in a scratchy whisper. “I have nowhere to go. I can’t go back now. I just can’t.”

“I promised I wasn’t going to let anything bad happen to you, and I meant it.” Lucas squats down in front of me and takes my hands in his. A warmth spreads into my fingers and through the rest of me, even though my heart is frozen solid with an icy mixture of helplessness, hopelessness and confusion. “I’m going to explain everything to you, we’re going to find Aiden, and I’m going to get them to accept you into the Cafe, even though you couldn’t go through all their clues and tests to find them.”

I look up to meet his steady, calm gaze, and a bit of hope flickers to life in my heart. “I don’t understand. How can you do that?”

“Thora,” he sighs. “I’m part of the Cafe. I’m an insomniac. Like you.”

My breath feels sucked out of me, even though I’m not at all surprised. Even though it makes total sense. Even though I suspected it myself with the way he showed up everywhere we went and seemed to know things he only could if he were one of them. But still, hearing the confirmation, knowing it really is true…every part of me seems to swell with a strange sense of…comfort.

“I knew it!” Florence throws herself forward in a rush of blond. “I knew you had to be an insomniac.”

“I knew it, too,” I say with a small smile. “The only thing I don’t understand is, well, you don’t really…” I look at Florence, at her clear gray eyes and pale skin that matches my own, before turning back to Lucas. Lucas with his bright blue eyes and brown skin.

“I don’t look like the rest of you, I know.” He grins. “I’m not meant to.” He points to his eyes. “Contacts.” And then to his skin. “Spray tan.

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