Rising Zero by Viola Grace

Author:Viola Grace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: flying, superhero, power, empire, hero, rising, drake

Chapter Eight

The earthquake had done an incredible amount of damage. People were gathered to see their emperor, and some of them were unhappy.

She stood next to him and slightly behind, watching the crowd. When she was playing, she had seen crowds with this mix. Some had come to make requests, and others had come to make noise. She had a scar on the left side of her head from being struck with some kind of cocktail glass and was wary of the latter.

She kept her face passive and pleasant as Darmon spoke with local leaders and made plans for more assistance to be delivered, as well as additional medical personnel and equipment. He was calm, he was kind, but he was thorough.

He beckoned to her and said, “The woman there is a teacher, and she is dealing with the children who have been displaced without parents. Go, listen to her, and find out what she needs.”

She paused.

“Don’t worry, Dylia. I will find you.” He took her hand and kissed it.

Dylia nodded and turned toward the older woman who was wearing formal business clothing. She walked over to the woman and inclined her head. “What you tell me, he will hear.”

The woman looked her up and down then nodded. “Thank you.”

They left the meeting tent and walked through streets that were covered with fractures, and entire swaths of soil had risen in waves.

The situation had been ongoing for a week, and the survivors had been found, and the dead identified and prepared for burial.

“That is where we are storing the dead until the families can make plans for burial. Over there is the hospital assembly for the injured and burned. We will be going to the creche that has been set up for the children who have no parents left.”

“Is that absolute? That there is no one to take them, I mean.”

“We have gone through the survivor rolls; all the family members who survived can’t take them.”

“So, you want the emperor to figure something out.”

“That would be ideal.”

She nodded and walked with the woman for a few minutes. “What is your name?”

“Nanda Ormiak. I work at the local school.”

“Ormiak?” Dylia was surprised.

“Yes. I know it isn’t a common name, but it is an old one.”

Dylia smile slightly. “I have heard it before. There is a researcher in the capital by that name.”

“Ah, yes. He would be my brother. He is a little mad, but after his first wife passed, I never heard from him again, so I have been unsure as to what happened to him after she died.” Nanda’s eyes focused on her, and a slow look of recognition crossed her face. “Do you know him?”

“We have met.” Dylia sighed. “He’s my father. I always wondered if my brother wasn’t my full brother, and you have answered that. When my brother was six, my father married Aluar Janoth. She died when I was ten.”

Dylia squeaked in surprise as she was hugged strongly. “I have a niece!”

She carefully hugged the woman back.

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