Rivers of Fire (Atherton, Book 2) by Patrick Carman

Author:Patrick Carman [Carman, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science fiction, Fiction, General, Action & Adventure - General, Children's Books, Children's & young adult fiction & true stories, YA), Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Friendship, Family, Ages 9-12 Fiction, Children: Grades 4-6, Social Issues, Science fiction (Children's, Orphans, Orphans & Foster Homes, Social classes, Earthquakes, Science Fiction; Fantasy; Magic, Science fiction; American
ISBN: 9780316166737
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

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And yet he had not been able to avoid them. There were too many. The numbers, Mead's Head come to life in the form of Dr. Kincaid, the bite from the Crat--all these things were starting to break Lord Phineus wide open, revealing another man.

"Why don't you look at the ceiling, Dr. Harding?"

"Stop talking to me!" said Lord Phineus. "Atherton is mine and mine alone. You can't have it back!"

"Oh, but I can, and I will," vowed Dr. Kincaid. And then he began reading the numbers on the ceiling out loud, first in a whisper and then a dull voice, and finally, he was yelling the numbers with all his might.

"54329.21395.44350.88604!56123!43986!"

"Dr. Kincaid, that's enough!" cried Vincent, afraid of pushing too hard and destroying Dr. Harding, along with everything else on Atherton. "He's not unbreakable. He's still a man."

Lord Phineus had sagged closer and closer to the floor as each number cut deeper through the black fog surrounding his mind. The fog had cleared little by little at the sound of every number, revealing trap door after trap door opening into knowledge he'd hidden away.

But Vincent was right, Dr. Kincaid had to stop, for some of those doors held dense pockets of information that even a brilliant mind could barely contain. Dr. Harding's reentry into the world was happening much too fast, and it threatened to kill the already weakened man who lay slumped on the floor in front of Dr. Kincaid.

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