Skin Trials: Book One by S.Y. Humphrey

Author:S.Y. Humphrey [Humphrey, S.Y.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

11

The Forgotten

“How long will this ride be?” Seren asked on their way out.

“Why, Princess? You got somewhere important to be? Some place you want us to drop you off? With the mental guys in Tier Four so they can toot your whistle?” Aurora shot.

Growing impatient with her mockery, Seren shot her a look. “Do you ever just be quiet?”

“Could you ever come over here and make me?”

“Maybe! I’m not tied up now!” Seren finally snapped, readying herself.

Before Aurora could jump up, N.G. hopped forward quickly to throw out his arms between them. He remained crouched, staring at both of them until they sat back.

“You’re nothing! Nobody! Not half as important as you think you are! Just a halfbreed who got lucky!”

Seren huffed, “And you’re jealous. Because you didn’t. You would give up your life in a heartbeat to live my life for one day. So keep your judgment.”

They both sat back against the jumping trailer walls, eying one another and fuming.

“Why is Pike always the one who drives?” Seren asked.

“He’s the one with the commercial drivers license. He’s a Tier Two average worker.”

“Is he the only one of you that has ever scanned in with the new government?” Seren asked.

He paused, and she could tell he was weighing if he should trust her to disclose that. “Yes.”

“So what do you do? How do you live without any VScan credit?”

“I teach English and a little bit of the other subjects in some of these communities. In exchange for meals and housing, and any extra valuables they give me to barter with.”

That explained the clean nails and hands.

“How do you know Pike and her?” Seren asked.

“Pike is my little brother. This one here,” he said, pointing at Aurora, “is with Max’s crew, from Honduras, where they lost their villages to your Lieutenant Scarborough,” he explained.

“All of you— sworn enemies— coming together only to take down the United States, the country that protects you,” Seren said.

“The United States has already been taken down. We’re trying to get it back,” he replied. “So let me ask you a question now. You really think you can go back to Stephen Jernigan in a few days, and pretend like he hasn’t lied to you?”

She thought about it, bouncing with the big tires that rolled over a ragged road. “I don’t know that you’ve told me the truth, and whether you or anybody else likes it, that’s my home. He’s my father. And Mariel Jernigan is my mother.”

“And forget this ever happened?” he asked.

“I don’t think that’s possible, but boy, would I love to,” she answered. “Why do you do this? Why don’t you take up the ways of those children back there and make a home to settle in? Why is this scientist so important to you?”

He shot her a look. “This scientist is also important to you. He’s the reason you have your life you’re so desperate to return to.”

Seren thought of the body lying on a dirt floor, withering away in that hole, flashed in her mind.

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