The Insurrection by Chris Babu

Author:Chris Babu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: N/A
Publisher: Permuted
Published: 2019-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

As miserable and selfish as Drayden felt leaving Sidney behind, he was confident Professor Worth and Catrice could find a way to rescue her. They would likely need to explore nearby residences for helpful equipment. Luckily, no one lived this far north and, with the exception of the period immediately following the Confluence, the area had remained relatively untouched.

Drayden had a job to do and needed to do it before the insurrection started. After that, the city might be on lockdown. It also had to be a solitary endeavor, because his friends would not approve. This unplanned delay was his only chance.

“Sid!” Drayden called out one last time. “You’re going to be okay. We’re going to get you over. Just stay out of sight on the other side of the street. I’ll see you in a jiffy.”

She responded with a thumbs-up.

“I don’t understand, Drayden,” Professor Worth said, furrowing his brow. “This doesn’t make sense. We should stay together. You’re inserting a variable into our plan with a high degree of volatility around it.”

Drayden clearly couldn’t tell them the truth. “I need to get my brother and I have to deliver this information about the exiles to Kim. It’ll be too hard to move undetected if there’s a group of us. Trust me, I’ll be fine. And you guys all have to work together to help Sidney. Once you have her, I’ll meet you at Mr. Kale’s house in the Dorms. Charlie knows where it is.” He did, in fact, want to retrieve Wesley and report to Kim, so it wasn’t a flagrant lie. Nor was it the full story.

He unslung his rifle and handed it to Charlie. “Move cautiously out there and tuck your weapons away. Whatever you do, make sure you don’t get captured. The regular old Guardians in the Dorms aren’t quite the Special Forces guys in the Palace. You can evade them.”

“I don’t like this, Drayden,” Catrice protested. “I have a bad feeling about it.”

He hugged her. “Thank you, I appreciate your concern. I do. I…I have to go.” He bro-hugged Charlie and Professor Worth.

The professor held him by the shoulders. “Be careful, son.”

Drayden raced down the ladder, carrying his flashlight and wearing his pistol on his hip. Navigating the streets was so much easier alone. Since the ones in the Dorms were a perfect grid, he could see miles in every direction at each intersection. The overabundance of abandoned buildings made the potential need for an urgent hiding place a negligible matter.

Drayden worked his way to the Fiftieth Street subway station on the One Line, which was a track he knew from the Initiation. Inside, he felt safe, ironically, considering how dangerous the Initiation had been.

Like on his trip up to the Dorms with Charlie, he sought to avoid certain stations. The first was at Times Square Forty-Second Street, home of the skyscraping rock wall. He’d fallen off it the first time, and he wasn’t about to seek redemption.

The further south he went, the riskier heading up to street level became, because he was traveling through increasingly populated areas.

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