The Eve by Keary Taylor

Author:Keary Taylor [Taylor, Keary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Publisher: Keary Taylor Book, INC
Published: 2013-11-11T08:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

I didn’t say anything about my new discovery the next day. As Avian would have so nicely put it, I was still processing that information. Instead, Bill, West, and I kept watch again, not saying much of anything all day. No intruders came.

Dr. Evans helped Avian take care of Creed from afar, making sure the ingredients that went down her feeding tube were right, that they’d give her the best chance of surviving. They started gathering the supplies they would need to get her back to New Eden. And they gave her the last dosage of TorBane.

On our fifth day at NovaTor we were all stir crazy to get moving. This was our final day. We were giving TorBane twenty-four hours to settle into Creed’s system. Her vitals were good. She was still fragile and underdeveloped, but Dr. Evans said she was comparable to what a one month premature baby would be like instead of one that was over three months.

While Bill continued to watch for unwanted visitors, West and I started packing the solar van.

“These are the supplies we’ll need to finish off the transmitter,” Dr. Evans said, handing a box off to me. “Careful with them.”

I imagined if he had more flesh and hair on him, he might have raised an eyebrow at me and given me a “look.” Just like West often did.

I nodded and turned toward the stairs. West followed, oxygen tanks under his arms.

“We’re supposed to leave in the morning,” I said, my voice echoing off the walls.

“Yeah,” West said. His voice sounded dead.

“I’ll understand if you stay,” I said as I stepped out into the main floor. “If you have to go look for her.”

“Where am I supposed to even start?” West said, his voice harsh, even though I knew it wasn’t me he was mad at, for once. “I don’t know what I expected. I didn’t really think she’d be waiting here, but I…”

“I know,” I said as we walked into the garage. I pulled the back door to the solar tank open. “I think I kind of thought the same thing.”

West set the oxygen tanks in the fourth row of seats, the one Morgan had occupied on the way out. “I don’t know what I’m going to do,” he said, leaning against the vehicle and crossing his arms over his chest. “I don’t think I can decide that until we’re heading out tomorrow morning.”

I nodded, closing the back doors again. I leaned against the van and stuffed my hands into my pockets. “Your grandfather says this transmitter won’t kill off the first generation of TorBane. That the coding works different, or something. If this really works, you’ll be able to spend as much time as you like looking for her after it goes off. There won’t be any danger of getting attacked by the Bane. You can take this,” I said, knocking my knuckles against the side of the solar tank. “And drive for as long as you’ve got sun to power it.

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