Rebels: City of Indra by Kendall Jenner

Author:Kendall Jenner [Jenner, Kendall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

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Two Weeks Following Apprenticeship

Lex

A girl. She’s air, I can tell, but some sort of weird fringe group, with the way her hair’s tangled and her dress recalls some Rock Bottom scav. She doesn’t even have shoes.

This doesn’t seem important when you consider the white creature behind her—a horse, but not an Archive kind, even though it kind of is that, too. Except this one’s real as this memory, massive and the purest white I could ever image. Not synth-white. Pure white.

You can get anything in the Upper Levels, I guess. This way of life I’m still trying to process.

Every time Kane or the airgirl speak, all I get is buzzzzzzz, the audiofeed’s all jacked, but I suspect Cassina wants it this way.

Something bad is going to happen. I know it. But I can’t tear my eyes away.

The girl pretends to ignore Kane. She brushes the horse and I see her playing games, just like Cassina does. It’s so transparently obvious.

Kane puts his hand to his lips. A yawn? I can’t be sure.

The girl turns back to him. She’s got an expression like she’s doing him a favor. Lowering herself to offer a few words. Just like an airgirl.

But then she attacks him, right as he’s backing away. He’s not himself. I have to help him. My reflexes kick in and I bash against the enforcement wall and am reminded I’m just an observer.

By then I see they’re kissing. Kane and the girl are kissing, and I feel foolish for rushing in. My training got the better of me. My emotions did, too.

I don’t know why, but I’m even angrier than if she’d have punched him.

Kane’s words pop into my head. My first kiss with someone I care about.

I look at the girl. She must be the second. He knew this assignment was coming. He’s known about this for a long time. Was she on his mind when he was with me? Am I on his mind when he’s with her?

He breaks the kiss. Yells at her. Probably for throwing herself on him.

That’s when she spits on him.

Forget not caring for airgirl. Hate is a better word.

She’s yelling now. Ferocious. Not so great with rejection, I guess.

Now she’s pulling back her arm. . . .

Everything goes dim. I figure some glitch is going to boot me out, but then there’s a flash and the girl’s holding Kane in her outstretched arms. Like he isn’t worthy of her touch. Looks down at him with disgust.

His eyes are closed, his body lifeless. And that’s when PCF officers surround Kane and start kicking his already broken body. They don’t touch her. I can’t either. Not right now, but she’s out there somewhere. Are they just going to pummel him until he’s dead?

Someone is holding the girl back. Her father? He’s not PCF, that’s for sure. He’s fancy, more put together than her. She tries to run toward Kane, but the guy has her good. She struggles against him, wanting back in on the action.

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