Shattered (Scorched Series) by Mari Mancusi

Author:Mari Mancusi [Mari Mancusi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2014-06-26T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

“Do you feel them? Are they close?”

Scarlet closed her eyes, trying to pull up another image of Emmy in her mind as Rashida and the other Potentials had taught her. She’d led them this far, to some cute little touristy town in southeast Colorado, but she hadn’t been able to narrow it down to more than just this generalized area. So the rest of the Potentials had set up camp in an abandoned housing development on the outskirts of town earlier that day, and now she and Rashida were combing the streets for some sign of Emmy.

“I don’t know,” she confessed, scrubbing her face with her hands. She was exhausted and a little sick from the long trip they’d taken in the fume-filled school bus stolen from a junkyard. Now, even the prospect of seeing Emmy again was starting to pale with the worry of how far away from home she really was. The only real place she’d ever traveled to before now was to see her grandmother on the reservation. And that didn’t really count.

Why had she agreed to come along? What had possessed her to join up with this strange team of so-called Potentials and their quest for the missing dragon? To walk away from her mother, her friends, her school, and her job—without telling anyone where she was going?

All her life, Scarlet had been the responsible one. The one who picked up the pieces when those she loved fell apart. She wasn’t the type of girl who just ran away. So why had she done it now?

She tried to tell herself it was out of concern for Emmy. She’d already screwed up so badly—this was a chance to make good, to get her the vaccine she needed. But as the day wore on, even that noble idea had started to feel…itchy. Like it wasn’t quite right. More troubling: every time she tried to think back to the moment when she’d agreed to join the group, her head began to hurt and she couldn’t quite focus on the memory. As if it were dancing in the back of her brain, just out of reach.

Had they messed with her mind somehow? Tricked her into thinking it was all her idea? That was impossible, of course. But try as she might, she couldn’t push the idea away, and as the sun began to set over the horizon, her troubling thoughts only multiplied.

Suddenly her mind prickled, as if fairies were dancing across the neurons. She stopped in her tracks and cocked her head, trying to understand the strange sensation. Then, without warning, a windy trail of golden sparks seemed to roll out before her, glittering temptingly.

“What the hell…?” she murmured.

Rashida caught her expression. “Do you feel something?” she asked. Then she closed her own eyes, breathing in deep. A moment later she opened them. “I think it might be Caleb,” she exclaimed. “He’s giving off some crazy energy signals and he’s not that far away either.”

Caleb. Scarlet’s heart involuntarily skipped a beat.

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