Teek: The Children of Prometheus by S. Andrew Swann

Author:S. Andrew Swann [Swann, S. Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: S. Andrew Swann
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Macy pulled the Taurus off the freeway at the next exit they came to.

“We got to change the plates on this car.”

Allison sat, numbed. All she could think of was the car flipping over. That hadn’t been what she’d been trying to do. She wasn’t sure anymore what she’d been trying to do. What if it had hit their own car, or the policeman, or it rolled into traffic? What if the cop had a partner, or a prisoner in back of the car?

She was chilled by what she’d almost done.

“Allie!”

“What?”

Macy looked scared. “Don’t leave me like that, girl. Not in the middle of all this. You got to help me change the plates.”

Allison nodded, weakly. If they weren’t fugitives beforehand, they certainly were now— as soon as that state trooper got word back. Their names, descriptions, the car they were driving—

And all Allison really wanted to do was talk to her mother, see her father, understand why…

“Here we go,” Macy said. They’d pulled into some town called Hancock, and Macy had found a Long John Silver’s parking lot on its periphery. “That white Saturn, it just pulled in.”

Macy pulled into the space next to it, on the far side from the restaurant. She got out and looked around. “Come on,” she said back into the car.

Allison stepped out of the car and realized that she still clutched Babs. When do I start sucking my thumb? She left Babs on the passenger seat of the Taurus.

She walked around and saw that the Saturn had Georgia plates.

“Are there any tools in this thing?” Macy asked, popping the trunk in the Taurus.

Allison stood look-out, while Macy found a first-aid kit that had a pair of blunt kindergarten-type scissors. Somehow Macy managed to use them as a screwdriver to work the plates free.

Allison was glad that Macy hadn’t asked her to teek the plates free. She had difficulty concentrating right now. Her mind needed a rest.

Her life needed a rest.

She wanted everything to be over with, one way or another. Everything felt as if it was crumbling, first her school, then her past, then her family…

Now it felt as if she was fraying at the edges herself. The person who had stolen two-hundred dollars and had rolled a Maryland State Highway Patrol car wasn’t the Allison she knew. Allison the telekinetic, Allison the fugitive, these were people she didn’t know, people she didn’t think she liked.

The process of swapping the plates proceeded in fits and starts. They had to hide what they were doing whenever a car entered the parking lot. The repeated panic as they stopped and started was almost as fatiguing as her teek.

When they were done, Macy resumed their drive south, away from US-48.

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