The Power of Six - Pittacus Lore by Pittacus Lore

Author:Pittacus Lore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Power of Six; Pittacus Lore; power; six; Pittacus; Lore

"I had to hide it," I whisper. "We're almost there, I promise."

I unlock the padlock and it falls from the oak door's handle, and soon I'm following a floating Adelina up the stone stairway that circles around the north tower leading to the belfry. I can hear Legacy faintly meowing from the top.

I open the door to the belfry and set Adelina gently down next to the Chest. She props her left arm up on the Chest lid and leans her head against it; I can see she has just about lost her battle with the pills, and I'm angry with myself now for tricking her. Legacy climbs into her lap and licks her right hand. "How is there a cat in here?" she mumbles.

"Don't ask. Listen, Adelina, you're almost completely asleep, and I need you to open the Chest with me before you are, okay?"

"I don't think I have ..."

"Have what?" I ask.

"Have it in me right now, Marina." Her eyes are closed.

"Yes, you do."

"Put your hand on the Chest's lock. Put my hand on the

other side."

I press my palm against the side of the lock and it feels warm. I use telekinesis to pull her right hand away from Legacy's tongue and onto the other side of the lock. She interlocks her fingers with mine. A second passes. The lock snaps open.

"Uh, guys? Something is, uh, something's totally happening back here." The seven orbs that hover in front of my chest in the backseat of the SUV are speeding up, and I can no longer control them. It gets so bright that I have to cover my eyes.

"Hey, hey! Dude, cut it out!" Sam barks. "I'm trying to drive up here."

"I don't know what's going on!"

"Pullover!" Six yells.

Sam rips the vehicle onto the shoulder of the road and slams on the brakes, stone and gravel crunching and pinging us. The six planets and one sun dim in brightness, and the planets start to whip around the sun at such a rate that it's hard to focus on any single one. With each orbit the planets are absorbed into the sun until it's the size of a basketball. The new globe rotates as though on an axis, and then it produces a flash of light so bright that I'm momentarily blinded. It slowly dims, and sections of its surface raise and recede until what's left behind is a perfect replica of Earth itself, all seven continents, all seven seas.

"Is that... ?" Sam asks. "That looks like Earth."

The planet spins near my head, and on its third or fourth

rotation I see a small pinprick of pulsing light.

"Do you guys see that little light?" I ask. "Look at Europe."

"Oh, yeah," Sam says. He waits for another rotation and then squints. "I would say that's in what? Spain or Portugal? Can someone reach the laptop? Hurry."

With my eyes still on the globe and the tiny pulsing light, I crash my hand around behind me until I find the laptop. I hand it to Six, who hands it Sam.

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