Of Neptune by Anna Banks

Author:Anna Banks
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781250060914
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 2014-05-13T00:00:00+00:00

22

THE ROOM is a whirpool of blur. Occasionally Galen will catch glimpses of Tyrden’s back at the open door, of the men he’s talking to. Is Reder there? He’s not sure.

He only hears a few of the booted steps it takes for the group of strangers to approach the bed. The newcomers make no sense when they speak, are only capable of babbling. Sometimes they utter a coherent word. Those times the word is “search” or “Huddle” or “missing.” Then there is “out of sight.” The word “stubborn”—that’s from Tyrden’s mouth.

Emma’s face flashes across Galen’s mind, but he can’t keep it there, can’t make it stick. Who are they talking about? Is Emma missing? Something isn’t right, but it won’t present itself. I have to find Emma. I have to protect her from these strangers.

Then the strangers disappear. Suddenly, he’s in the water.

He can escape. But every time he tries to swim deeper and deeper to safety, something grabs his fin and pulls him back to the surface, something stronger than he is. When he looks back, he stops fighting.

Rachel. He’s pulled her too far in, she can’t breathe, she can’t breathe, why isn’t she breathing? Her foot is no longer bound by the air cast. “Swim,” he tells her frantically. “Swim!”

Now she’s tied to a cement block, sinking sinking sinking. He reaches for the knife he knows is in her boot. He just needs to cut her ropes, and she’ll be free. Like last time.

But there is no boot. Only feet. Bare, manicured feet. Bubbles escape her mouth in a desperate cry. The ropes have somehow weaved themselves into chains, handcuffs and chains. The cement block is there though. It’s there and it keeps pulling her down down down into a box. No, a building. It pulls her into a building and there is nothing he can do. The roof swallows her up and she cries out and he’s got her but he can’t lift her. She’s too heavy. The blocks are too heavy.

“Help me!” he screams around him. “Rayna! Toraf! Emma!”

Rachel is dying.

Rachel is dying.

Rachel is dying.

“Let me go, Galen,” she whispers, but he can’t let go.

“Galen, let me go,” she says again. Her face is so peaceful. Decorated with her usual smile.

Rachel, please. Please don’t die.

Rachel, no.

Rachel is dead.

Again.

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