Revision 7: DNA by Terry Persun

Author:Terry Persun [Persun, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

MAVRA WAS WRONG about the FBI. They were able to find her. And they managed to climb up the mountain in the middle of the night, as well. She didn’t know which of the FBI agents she had met, other than Rogers, had traipsed up through the woods, probably the younger ones. Neil wasn’t with them. She hoped that he figured out her lead. She had said it often enough.

She sat on a damp, uncomfortable stuffed chair with her legs tucked under her. Inside, the cabin smelled musty from being closed up. Spider webs stretched across each of the corners and on the legs of most of the furniture, what few pieces there were. The robots had lit a few candles, which threw a series of wavy shadows over the room.

She realized that even if Neil got the hint about the warehouse she had offered, would he figure out which warehouse? She had no idea where it might be. All she knew was that Leonardo had mentioned they were going there. She nodded to herself. Neil would figure it out. She was sure of it.

At the moment, her concern was aimed at what the FBI might do now that they found her. If they attempted to charge into the cabin, she was as good as dead.

Gatsby had seen them on his way to the cabin and alerted Jesus the second he arrived. The phone call Jesus made to Neil confirmed the situation. Then when Jesus talked directly with Rogers, she heard the whole conversation. Rogers told Jesus that the FBI would not advance. Jesus agreed to that scenario for the moment.

As Jesus talked with Rogers his mouth moved as though the words came from it, but the phone was held to his chest, which is where his microphone and speaker must have been located, which only added to the weirdness of the situation.

Mavra stared at the phone at first then raised her eyes to watch Jesus’s face. Until then, she had tried hard not to look any of them full in the face. In fact, she refused to address them in any way for fear that they would take it as an act of aggression. Because of that, she had become unaware of how totally strange and inhuman they were. Their clothes created the nuance that they were human, but everything else about them was a bit off.

As Jesus talked on the phone, his facial movements just weren’t right, and the candlelight made the peculiar downright unsettling. Under their shirts, their bodies appeared to be solid, not fleshy or moveable. That matched with her experience while being carried by Leonardo as well. They each wore an oversized sweatshirt and Mavra imagined that only their hands looked real. The rest of their arms and bodies could easily be plastic or rubber.

She would have been more frightened if the situation wasn’t so bizarre. The robots had become a curiosity. She pulled a candy bar from a pocket where she had stuffed all the goodies Gatsby stole from the vending machine.

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