TERRA (The Elements Series Book 2) by Tracy Korn

Author:Tracy Korn [Korn, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science fiction, action, Cyberpunk, Young adult, adventure, dystopian
Publisher: Animus Ferrum Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-08-26T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

Fireproof

Jax and Arco look at me expectantly, and I realize I've just said Azeris's name out loud.

"I saw him…just now. It was like he was looking into a screen or something, and I think he saw me too," I say, every word helping to convince me it actually happened.

"You saw what?" Tieg asks from across the room, which cues everyone else's attention.

"Azeris. It was just for a second. He was going to say something, and then the image just fell apart. I need to find Liddick," I say, moving toward the door. Arco holds out an arm, blocking my path, and I turn to him impatiently.

"Jazz, did you forget about the port-carnate splice he put in your head without you knowing? About how Azeris probably helped him with that?"

"I didn't say I forgave him, but I have to find out if he got the rest of whatever that message was supposed to be. Wasn't this treatment supposed to enhance our neural channel, or…channels," I add tentatively. "Maybe I only got part of what he saw because I haven't had it yet."

"Jazz…"

"Arco, come with or stay here, but I need to go," I insist, then turn to Zoe. "Did Dell say something about training?"

"I'll show you," Zoe answers, suddenly seeming anxious as she blows a strand of copper flyaway hair that has escaped her little ponytail, then rubs her freckled nose with the back of her hand. "We'll pass the entry to Center Hall on the way to the training circle if anyone wants to leave off there instead," she adds over her shoulder to Arco, then hooks her arm in mine, guiding me through the fissure and into the corridor.

We walk for several minutes before I recognize the opening to the small cave that leads up into Center Hall, but no one opts to go through. The torchlit corridor slopes downward, past the opening to the Swim, past the Origin Wall room and the Pinch where those stupid, gooey blue bats live, and past the hot spring room with the strange, mossy walls. Then I recognize the dark gray, porous rock showing in places and the smooth, glassy black rock from this morning when we went to the grain field.

"Are we going back out there? To the Bale stalks?" I ask Zoe, and she shakes her head.

"No. Under it."

***

We pass through a large cave with more torchlit walls, but these look too straight to be naturally occurring in the rock face. When I look more closely, I can see grooves and scuffs cut near the corners. Ada, Ty, and the young Badlander boy with the little blue bat from earlier are feeding Bale berries into a flat, stone grinder on the other side of them. It looks like two old clock gears, but neither of them are moving. Calliope, the Badlander girl who fixed Dell's tooth when we first arrived, looks like she's trying to repair it as the same two Vishan girls who giggled when they gave Ty

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