Outcasts of the Worlds by Lucas Paynter

Author:Lucas Paynter [Paynter, Lucas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 2014-07-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven: Useless Persons

Flynn wasted no time crafting lies regarding who they were or where they were from. In truth, there were none readily at hand, the visible differences between the girl’s vibrantly blue skin and their fairer tones too great to plug with a few cunning words. The fact stood that neither side seemed comfortable approaching the issue. An awkward silence and a shuffling of feet passed between the lot—save Mack, who looked at the others as if wondering what was so strange about all this.

But it was strange.

It was strange to Flynn, to look at this girl and see her as something so alien, knowing she saw him the same way too. It was as strange for her, though something deep in her magenta eyes told him that she recognized an innate humanity in them all, even knowing just the same that they stood apart.

“Sooo … okay then,” the blue girl turned to the ascending path. “Good luck.” She refastened her scarf tightly around her face and went on, as though the encounter had never happened.

“Aren’t we—?” Jean asked Flynn, confused and gesturing in the direction the girl had gone.

“We are.” He nodded. Their rescuer had only gained a little ground when they set off in the same direction as she. The thin layer of snow crunched under their feet, and the girl ahead stopped and turned back.

“Are you following me?” she asked, suddenly intimidated.

“Far from it,” Chari told her. “Rather, your destination is en route to ours.” Uncertain, she looked to Flynn, “Or is it counterwise?”

“I’m headed to Kana,” the blue girl replied. “It’s a mining city, roughly a day’s travel from—well, where I started. Where did you come from, and … where are you going?”

“Well—!” Mack began. Jean, thinking fast, covered his mouth before we’re visitors, from the planet Earth! or some variation thereof could escape. Their situation sounded absurd enough without hearing it described like that.

“We’ve come from far away,” Flynn told the girl, “and we’re just passing through. To another place, as far from here.”

Left with that, the girl contemplated and nodded, seeming to understand. “I’ll thank you then, for not patronizing me with some obvious fib.” Though most of her face was covered, the shifting of her cheeks, the look of her eyes—all told that she was smiling. Reaching out, she placed her hand on his upper arm, rubbing it for warmth. “I’m Zaja. Zaja DeSarah.”

Imitating her gesture, Flynn introduced himself and the others in kind. With names and a few more words exchanged, Zaja became more at ease, pulling her scarf down and showing a gray-toothed grin. The ease she displayed faded as she looked to the long road ahead. The tunnel’s vanishing point was a great distance away, and though Flynn could not see the path’s end, he knew the route departing Oma was somewhere beyond it.

“If we’re headed the same way,” Zaja suggested, “then we should get moving now. We might reach Kana before it gets dark.”

“You afraid of the dark?” Jean mocked.

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