The Girl Who Dared to Think 5: The Girl Who Dared to Lead by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight
Published: 2018-01-30T18:30:00+00:00

17

I clapped my hands over my ears. The noise seemed to dig its way into my brain, which felt like it was being split in half. “WHAT IS THAT?” I shouted, barely able to hear the sound of my own voice over the piercing noise.

I looked at Leo, my gaze questioning, and saw that he was shouting something up toward the ceiling. I followed his gaze to the monitors hanging from it and saw more purple flashes cutting through the yellow code on the screens there. The sight of it triggered a very brief memory from the legacy net of a darkened sky being split with the sharp, white jolt of lightning, and the comparison was not inaccurate. It was like lightning was spreading across the screen, cutting the code there to pieces.

My friends were all shouting, but I couldn’t make out anything they were saying over the sound. The purple storm onscreen swelled, and I realized that it had to be Jang-Mi—the color of the lightning was the same color the sentinel’s eyes had been when she was talking with Tian. It was her, and she was already going crazy. My gaze dropped to the hard drive on the desk, and I realized I had to stop her before it got any worse.

I pulled one hand away from my ear, my eyes squeezing into slits as the buffer between my ear and the noise disappeared and the stabbing pain intensified, and reached for the drive that housed her, determined to rip the cables out and stomp on the damn thing. But Leo caught my arm.

I pulled against him, knowing that he was trying to save her, but he shook me and then squatted down, getting in my face. He immediately pointed to his ear and then ran the finger over his throat, and I realized he was telling me to mute the speakers.

I was the only one who could; Cornelius couldn’t hear us asking him to do it, so I had to use the neural transmitter. I just hoped Leo’s firewall around him was holding, and that he still had control over the room.

Cornelius, kill every speaker in my quarters, I thought, not wanting to waste a second asking if he was all right. I figured I would know if he was in a moment, depending on whether this worked or not.

A second too long later, the speakers shut off. The sudden silence was almost as alarming as the noise, but that was probably because I could practically hear my ear canals throbbing from the auditory assault, which made me wonder if I was deaf.

There is a hostile program in my terminal, Cornelius suddenly said, and his voice was like a shout in my ears, causing me to cry out in pain. A sound that was also too loud. Should I—

SHUT UP! I thought. I wasn’t sure if I could project anger into a thought, but Scipio help me, I tried to make the order the most imperative thing I could.

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