Return by Corrie Brundage

Author:Corrie Brundage [Brundage, Corrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Easton Studio Press, LLC
Published: 2017-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Alyssa

The nerds at the Facility were jostling our cages onto a train like we were some kind of inanimate cargo. I growled a little at each researcher that came close to my iron hovel. The fury was alive and kicking inside me, but I knew enough to keep it under control. They’d hit me with more sedation if they thought I was a threat, and Jack had made it clear to all us half-morphs we would be allies to Originals. They wanted us to fight alongside them once the Travelers arrived, and Jack was raring to go. Most of the fury I felt was directed at the aliens, too. They’d done something to our DNA, the fiber of our beings, to make us into these monsters. And while the power surging through my body was intoxicating, I knew I wouldn’t want to be in this form for the rest of my life. Those damn Travelers had gone and screwed around with my body, and it felt like, well, misogyny. I’d always battled sexism in my first life, and for some reason I saw this as an attack on my personhood as a woman in this new body. I knew that wasn’t the case; male clones were now half-morphs too. But still, the rage I felt didn’t need a logical explanation. I just wanted my life back, even though that life had been difficult, to say the least. Compared to this cage, the Eros District was looking pretty good.

The nerds had gotten ahold of some machinery that was lifting our cages and packing them onto another machine that resembled stuff I’d seen on construction sites in my original life. Every time I’d walk past construction workers at their sites they’d whistle after me and make comments about my legs. That made me even angrier, remembering that bullshit, and I growled again, the low rumble resonating against the steel bars of my cage. One of the researchers was standing nearby and hustled over to check my monitor. And here came the sedation, but not before I saw Jack align the tendons of his body in such a way that clearly conveyed the message I needed to better control myself. I didn’t mind that he’d sort of assumed the position of the leader of the half-morphs, because I trusted him more than anyone else on this planet. My admiration for him was still present even in this misshapen body. I cringed at the thought that he was seeing me looking like a monster. I shifted my gaze away from him and down at the floor of my cage as the sleepiness overcame me, and didn’t really notice when we were loaded on the train. There was a docking platform just outside the Facility, so we didn’t have to be paraded through the city. I sensed the population of Origin had diminished greatly and recalled a researcher commenting on how people had begun a mass exodus out to the camps in the forest. They must be assembling Originals out there, like some kind of army, I mused.

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