Take Flight (Generation Icarus Book 2) by J L Pawley

Author:J L Pawley [Pawley, J L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nineteenth House Publishing
Published: 2024-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

16

RAVEN

I wished the Not-Me would go away.

I’d lost count of how many days I had been back in the Facility. Ten? Twenty? The Team didn’t use me every day now. They had the Flight. They were distracted by their new Test Subjects. Just like I was One and Owl was Two, the Team had given the Flight numbers. I couldn’t tell who they were talking about.

The Team had some other new things in the Facility too. There was something called the Tunnel, and something called the Incubator. I didn’t know what those words meant, and every time the Team mentioned them, I worried.

But there was nothing I could do, except sit in my cell or in the Ob, and watch Not-Me watching Me.

At first, it made me scared. And I felt all prickly all over. “Creeped out”, Falcon said once. I didn’t know what he meant then.

Sometimes, after some experiments, Not-Me would make the Team give me medicine to stop the pain. I wished I could read the strange faces she made when no one else was looking. Maybe it meant she liked me.

But not enough to stop them Testing at all.

If she wouldn’t help, I wanted her to go away, instead of making me … hope. That was the word.

Today, I was in the Ob. Not-Me was watching from the back of the room. Two people from the Team stood in front of the glass and pressed buttons. They didn’t seem very interested in me, so I wondered if I was just in the Ob to be kept out of the way. That happened before when the Team were making changes to the Lab, before they made the cells.

For a long time, I stood in a corner, and waited. The two Team members sat down, talking very fast. I realized they were working on a Report, and I stopped worrying so much. I knew a Report was telling people something, but writing the words down. The Team hated Reports. They said it took too much time away from Testing.

I liked Reports.

After a while, I stopped looking through my eyes, and looked at the pictures in my head instead. Today, I wanted to remember flying in the desert for the first time.

Then I heard the emergency beep.

“Code Red,” the talking station yelled. “It’s the Incubator! All hands in the Oh Are, now!”

The two Team scientists ran out of the Ob.

The alarm stopped, and the quiet was more scary than the noise. I knew a Code Red was something very, very Bad.

I was alone again. The floor lights had turned red for the emergency, and I shivered, remembering other Code Reds.

But I wasn’t alone.

Not-Me moved from the shadow at the back of the room, and walked to the see-through wall. Slowly, she put her hand on the glass.

“Hello, Raven,” she said.

I stepped back. How did she know ‘Raven’?

She smiled, but it didn’t seem right. “My name is Lin JingYing.”

My wings folded in close to me. I didn’t … trust her.

“I know he doesn’t think so, but you really are beautiful.

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