Project Dandelion: Retribution by Heather Carson

Author:Heather Carson [Carson, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The air was ten times hotter than it was that morning and it coated her skin in a sticky sweat. The sun was high overhead, reflecting off the metal gangway that led to the pier. Katrina was the first to step onto the solid structure and she quickly scanned the area to take in her surroundings. Four massive ships were anchored at different points across the harbor. Seagulls squawked overhead. Steel packing crates stamped with “property of the U.S. government” logos lined the back of the parking lot. In the lot were waiting vans with their engines running.

Katrina reached back to make sure Mia was behind her as the guards shuffled them into one of the vans with blacked out windows. Before they shut the door, Katrina saw the label for Pier 7 where the ship was docked. It was all so fast the she was forced to take in the world as fragmented images, but she could paint a clear picture. They were on some sort of Navy base in Hawaii, but she didn’t want to be here anyway. The ships were too big. She’d need to find a recreational harbor.

The van lurched forward as the four girls and four more struggled to find positions on the hot metal floor in the back.

“I thought this was supposed to be paradise,” Becca grumbled. “Couldn’t they afford a better ride?”

Mia yanked on the door handle but it was locked from the outside. “What do we do?” she whispered as she scooted across the floor to sit between Katrina and Marissa.

Katrina shook her head. “Just close your eyes and count how long it takes to get to wherever we are going. The island isn’t that big. We’ll be there soon enough.”

Three left turns and one right, eight minutes from where they started. The van picked up speed as it went straight for ten minutes on an open road. Two minutes later the van slowed and turned right. The roads got a little rough and the girls bounced around in the back until the road smoothed out again. A minute later they went up an incline. Katrina pressed her feet against the floor to stop herself from sliding into the back door. Just for laughs, she reached up to pull the handle again, but it didn’t budge.

At the top of the hill the van slowed to a steady rumble and she debated on kicking the blacked-out windows out. Less than a minute later, the van came to a stop. Twenty-two minutes at the speed they were going, meant about fifteen miles from the base. A small smile turned Katrina’s lip. Fifteen miles was nothing.

“Out you go, comrades.” A guard stood at the side with a baton in his hand. “This is where you stop.”

Katrina blinked in the sun and shaded her eyes as she turned to discover paradise. The vegetation was leveled flat for acres in either direction. They were in some sort of valley with small hills surrounding them. The edge of the leveled field was roped off with a chain link fence.

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