Numbers 3: Infinity by Rachel Ward

Author:Rachel Ward [Ward, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, General, David_James Mobilism.org
ISBN: 9781908435064
Google: I2NGBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B0079IENF4
Publisher: Chicken House
Published: 2012-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28: Adam

Saul’s back. This time he brings a couple of armed thugs with him. Am I going to get a beating? Is he going to kill me now? They cuff my wrists behind my back and shove me out of the door.

‘Right or wrong, you’re going to help me now. You’re needed,’ Saul says, and he barges past and sets off down the corridor at a run. My posse are digging me in the back, pushing me, dragging me along – it’s all bruises on top of bruises. I ain’t in any position to resist.

‘Leave off,’ I say. ‘I’m coming, all right.’

My words don’t make no difference. They enjoy this shit.

We lose sight of Saul, but it don’t take long to catch up with him. We turn a corner and the corridor ahead is full of people running around like headless chickens. They’re mostly piling into one room, and that’s where we go.

To start with it’s difficult to work out what’s going on. It looks like there’s a crowd of people round a bed, so many I can’t see who’s on it.

Saul is shouting at Newsome. ‘What the hell were you doing?’

‘I was doing my job, Saul. The girl changed her number – we were scientifically recreating those conditions to analyse what happens.’

The girl. Mia.

They know she changed her number. How? How could they know that? Then I remember the soldier with the message, putting his finger to his lips. They could be listening in. They did listen in – they listened to me and Sarah. That’s the only way they could know.

What have they done?

‘I didn’t agree to that,’ Saul spits out.

‘I don’t need your sign-off, Saul. I’m the Chief Scientific Officer. I sign off all research. This is my project. You’re just security.’

They’re facing each other, standing nearly chest to chest like two fighting birds.

‘I’m in charge of this facility,’ Saul shouts into Newsome’s face, ‘in charge of the whole place, or are you forgetting that?’

‘What do you know about science?’ Newsome sneers. ‘What do you know about numbers? What are you even doing here?’ His chins are quivering.

Saul shoots me a quick look. I twig instantly.

Newsome don’t know about his number-stealing.

I open my mouth – I’ll shout it from the rooftops, if it helps me get out of here – then I think about Saul’s threats. And I remember. He’s murdered before.

If not you, then who?

I close my mouth. I’m helpless. I can’t tell anyone. And anyway, they’d never believe me. My word against his. What can I do?

‘What do you know about this girl, Newsome?’ Saul’s saying. ‘What has your research shown you? Has her number changed? Or has your scientific meddling killed her?’

Killed her?

I try to shrug off my minders, to get to the bed. As I twist around I notice a figure slumped on the floor. It’s Sarah. I call her name and she looks up. Her face is flushed and shiny, her eyes dull, but they’re still that piercing blue and the number’s the same.

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