Ordinaries: Shifters Book II (Shifters series 2) by Douglas Pershing & Angelia Pershing

Author:Douglas Pershing & Angelia Pershing [Pershing, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Science Fiction Dystopian
Publisher: PershingBooks.com
Published: 2014-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Fifteen Minutes Ago Would Have Been Better

–TANNER–

My entire world changed in two days. Apparently, my sister and Kai are some kind of elite covert ops team. Marcus tries to fill me in on what’s been happening while I was sleeping. The Ordinaries in the room don’t appear to like having me included in their planning. It’s only Marcus and me—with Alli and Elly, staying so close to me it’s almost like I have an extra couple of arms.

Despite the awkward resistance of the Ordinaries, a makeshift war council has been assembled. The J’s and Ordinaries are working for us, trying to put together a network and monitoring system while keeping us informed of the Shifter movements. I ask Marcus where the others are, and he tells me they are setting up a secondary command center.

Kyle and Solé are mostly working together on making sense of her visions, preparing what they can for our upcoming battles. Clay has been too busy piloting to really be much help leading. That’s left Marcus mostly with only Cooper, a strong leader among the Shifter Young; Greg, a strong leader among the Tyros; and Alice, popular with the Sixers, to lead alongside the rebel leaders.

Our council isn’t exactly productive.

I kneel down, look at the two girls, and tell them, “I haven’t eaten in days. I’m so starved. Could you help me out?”

They both nod and smile. They look at each other before running out of the room. I don’t know what they eat here, but it’s gotta be better than nothing.

I stand up, lean close to Marcus and whisper, “I have to talk to you.”

“So talk,” he replies. “We have much to do.”

“In private,” I say.

He eyes me and quietly says, “Your sister already filled me in on what happened. I’m sorry, Tanner, but we have to work with the information we have.”

I’m shocked he is so matter-of-fact. “You don’t understand.”

“No, you don’t understand!” he shouts back. “This is not a game! People are out there dying! What we are doing here, in this room, at this moment, determines who lives and who dies. Don’t you get that?”

I shrink under his stare. As I look around the room, I realize that Marcus is right. For the people in this room, we are talking about their family and friends. “Okay,” I tell him. “You’re right.” I’ll talk about it later though. There was something off about the way Devon responded, even if no one else saw it. I will figure it out. She can’t be a traitor, can she?

I ask him to show me what they have. There are several areas circled in red. He tells me that those are heavy casualty sites—almost entirely Ordinaries, most of which are the innocent mine workers, not our rebel allies. There are lots of them. This is worse than I thought. I point out the black markings and ask, “And these?” He tells me they are rebel strongholds. I look up optimistically and say, “That’s good, right?”

Miles speaks up.

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