The Amorphan Effect: A Coming of Age Science Fiction Adventure by Brungardt K. E

Author:Brungardt, K. E.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

I hid my trembling hands in my lap and waited for my heart rate to slow down. I didn’t know if the others were as shaken as I was, but I knew that officer was bad news. What could he possibly want to ask about? My shooting range time? My meeting with the queen? What was his interest in Zoe? Was he really going to interview us, all of us, or just us two women?

I had a day of classes to get through and I didn’t want another distraction, to be honest, but there it was. It was going to be the elephant in the room all day.

B’le’ru said in a soft voice, “I’ll escort you all to your classroom now. Please don’t worry about this; I’ll find out more and be present for any possible interviews. For now, there’s nothing to worry about.”

“Easy for you to say,” I muttered under my breath but Zoe heard me and I’m sure B’le’ru did, too.

Zoe said, “I have no idea what that was all about; I’m sure I’ve done nothing wrong.” She gave me a squinty-eyed look. “What about you, Jessi? Have you done something wrong?”

“You know, Zoe, he was way more interested in you than me. Why do you suppose that is?” I glared back as we moved toward the door as a group.

Thought you wanted to amend things with her.

I blew a mental raspberry. Yeah, yeah, I did. I do. She doesn’t make it easy.

Despite all the difficulties between us, I wanted to find a way to talk to her, maybe to mend things between us, I just didn’t know how yet. The only thing we had in common was being female. Well, that and we were both the first Exchanger females going to Amorpha. Okay, the third thing is we both loved dancing. Ack, the fourth thing is we both had a crush on Keaton. Dang it, she and I had taken Cat Fighting together for a while as children so that’s the fifth thing in common. Frack it all, we did have a lot of things in common but the friction between us made girl talk almost impossible.

We were soon to be isolated Humans on an alien world and I wanted to at least part ways as non-enemies. I hoped she did, too, if I could only figure out how to get past her dislike of me.

I couldn’t get out of my head how the surly officer had stared at her with avarice in his eyes. I wondered if the scientists were interested in her, also, and maybe the officer had been going to take her—and me, as an afterthought—to them. That made my stomach queasy to think about, just like when I remembered how Devon looked when he’d died.

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