The Fall of Io by Wesley Chu

Author:Wesley Chu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: rise of io, aliens, Science Fiction, adventure, spies
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2019-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Io sat Ella up a few minutes later. The girl was in a deep slumber. Io had been sorting through her emotions and knew they were in trouble. Ella was not physically tired. Stamina was one of her strengths. She was emotionally drained; seeing Nabin had sapped much of her energy.

Ella loved him. More than she realized. Io might not know humans well, but she could tell he loved her too. He held enormous sway over Ella. It had taken all of Io’s subtle and not-so-subtle prodding to split them apart in the first place. She couldn’t afford to go up against him again. Sooner or later, Ella was going to choose him over her.

Io knew that love was simply a series of chemical reactions in the brain; she had seen it firsthand in dozens if not hundreds of mammals. However, that didn’t mean it made humans any less foolish for following these emotions. Most of the greatest senseless acts in history were done in the name of love.

Io knew better than to allow that to happen. While she had come to an understanding with Ella and actually considered the girl her partner, or at the very least her ally, Io was still looking out for Io. And if it was to her benefit to keep Ella and Nabin apart, then that was what she intended to do.

The question was, how far could she push the girl? If it were up to her, they would be on a flight out of Tokyo tonight, fleeing to a rural area with few humans and even less Quasing conflict. Io had never been truly comfortable staying in heavily-populated centers in neutral countries.

That was why all of their passports were from several third-world countries. Io had almost succeeded getting Ella to go to Tanzania the first time around, her preferred outcome. The girl just couldn’t bear being so far away from people. The compromise had been Tokyo, a city so densely populated that it would be just as difficult to find someone there as in the middle of a rainforest. An urban jungle was the next best thing. At least that was what Io had reasoned. Apparently she had been wrong.

The question now was, how had Nabin located them? What else did he know? What was Roen Tan, a very important and influential human, doing with him? His presence obviously made it important Prophus business, especially if he was being supported by a full team of agents. The Prophus wanted something from them, but what? It had to be from Io; what could they possibly want with a street kid like Ella?

Io set herself to find out. She moved the girl over to the table and powered up the laptop. A few keystrokes and authentications later, she was back in the Prophus network. The first thing she did was tap into the missive about the safe house under construction. Everything looked by-the-book in the report. However, Ella did make a very good point; that was an awfully strange safe house, far too nice.

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