Quanta Reset by Lola Dodge

Author:Lola Dodge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Monster, LLC

Chapter Sixteen

ALTAIR

The journey tested my instincts. And my willpower.

I trusted Eva’s arrangements. Cipher had provided us with new digital identities, we had tech to scramble facial recognition scanners, and Eva’s network of spies helped us get from transpo to transpo on our way to Penghu.

Everything was neat and handled.

But Quanta and I were wanted. We could be exposed at any moment, and every league we traveled took us that much farther from the lab and Eva’s help.

Each time we switched cars or took a pod, I resisted the urge to turn back, but Quanta kept moving determinedly ahead. I couldn’t bring myself to argue with her.

No matter how wrong this felt.

I looked her over yet again while we stood waiting for the ferry to Penghu. She vibrated with tension as she stared out at the waves. “Are you seeing something?”

“Nothing specific. Yet.” She rubbed her temples. A headache?

“Hold on a little longer.” The serum had seemed to be helping her, but it had been a long and mostly sleepless trip. I needed to get my mobile lab going and contact Eva as soon as we found a place to stay. We could keep tweaking the formula.

“I can make it.” Quanta brought her focus back to me. “It’s cake now that we’re out of the crowds.”

“Cake?”

She shrugged. “It’s easier, anyway.”

Her words did nothing to ease my mind.

When the ferry finally docked, a few passengers hurried off without looking our way. Their shoulders were hunched, and all of them carried what I suspected were their entire life’s possessions in duffels and sacks.

We were heading in while everyone else fled.

“One more reset?” Quanta asked.

“Yes.” We settled onto a bench on the deck and Quanta gripped my hand.

For a split second, my vision doubled and two desolate seascapes blurred in front of me. A shiver rolled down my spine, but the sensation passed sooner than expected. “That was the fastest yet.”

“I’ve got this part down.” Quanta kept hold of my hand, but wouldn’t meet my gaze. “The rest…”

“You can relax. We’re almost there, and if anything happens, we have this point to return to.” I kept my voice firm, but I wondered if I was lying. She looked well enough right now, but I was worried about the accumulated strain. After weeks of poor sleep and being haunted by her timeghosts, winding back time might be more than she could handle.

We couldn’t put ourselves in any unnecessarily risky situations. Beyond being here.

Just breathing was a risk in this hostile territory.

Her tone dripped accusation. “You’re not relaxing.”

“Not anytime soon.” We had the coordinates for the skate park, but it obviously wasn’t a place the clone regularly visited. At best, we’d find another lead that we’d have to hunt down. It seemed like the setup for a wild goose chase, but at least it would keep Quanta focused on a problem she could solve.

Part of me hoped we found nothing.

She grumbled. “I’ll find something.”

I stiffened. Did you read that in my thoughts?

“I don’t think so…” She leaned into my shoulder.

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