The Line Book One: Carrier by Anne Tibbets

Author:Anne Tibbets [Tibbets, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2014-06-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The ride to the warehouse was awkward. But it was over soon enough.

We found Tym in the same spot where we’d left him, in the dark cave of hard drives, wearing the same clothes. Although, he’d apparently found his glasses because they were no longer perched on top of his backward cap, but at the end of his bulbous nose.

“Nice hair,” Tym said to me. He flung himself into his rolling chair and sent boxes of text in motion with his hands against the wall of screens. “It suits you.”

“Thanks.”

I stayed in the back of the room as Doc peered over Tym’s shoulder. He handed Tym a wafer-thin flash drive. He took it and plugged it into a tall, metal rectangular tower of drawers, which was parked on one end of a table. After a few minutes of working, he skidded across the room on his chair, plugged another tablet into a cube hard drive next to the tower and went back to flail some more at the screens.

“A chef, huh?” Tym asked.

I nodded. “Yep.”

He continued to stare at the screens, tossing text and what appeared to be a series of certificates into another window in the bottom left. He read through the information carefully.

“Why is she a widow?” Tym asked aloud.

Doc cleared his throat. “So Auberge doesn’t question it after she reveals she’s pregnant.”

Tym nodded then tossed some more screens around. “Okay. Naya, your late husband was Edward DeVille, age twenty-five. Here’s his death certificate. You were married last year and lived in East. You’ll have to memorize all this for the interview when your application processes through the Institution for the apprenticeship program. I’m dumping all the information into this drive so you can study it back at Doc’s place.”

“All right.”

“To make things simple, we’ve made you an orphan,” he continued. “You were raised in a children’s home in North. It’ll be easy to place you there, since there are so many unclaimed children. You’ll easily slip through the cracks. After you turned eighteen, you were unemployed, then married. I don’t want to overwhelm you with too much. Okay so far?”

My head started to hurt. Could I pull this off? Doc had said he had a friend on the Institution board, but I was still concerned I’d blow it and bring down Auberge on all of us.

Tym seemed to be reading my thoughts. “Don’t worry. You’ll be fine.” He turned in his chair and addressed Doc. “By my calculations, the worm, including the information with her new identity attached, should take twelve minutes to upload.”

Doc frowned. “That’s too long.”

“Can’t be helped.” Tym turned and winked at me. “I’m a genius, but even I have my limits.”

I nodded at him without expression. The weight of my situation was getting heavy, and I fought the urge to sit on the floor.

How was I supposed to do this?

Back at the clinic, Doc had said that the other girls they’d tried to help had made a single mistake, and that was why they’d disappeared.

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