The Reckoning by Noelle Marisa

Author:Noelle, Marisa [Noelle, Marisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult
Amazon: B08QH79Y8K
Goodreads: 55880219
Publisher: Marisa Noelle
Published: 2021-05-06T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Silver

The dim lighting in my mother’s room matches my gloomy mood perfectly. There’s nowhere for me to go and nothing for me to do. Everyone is mad at me. Okay, well, maybe not everyone, but I want to wallow in self-pity for a while. I need to hide away with my thoughts. It’s my process. Give me a few days to collect myself, pick myself up and try again. And, dear God, Dad better be back with this mysterious lady or I might retreat into a magical land of my own creation and look for my mother that way.

Lyla seems to understand. Perhaps she can talk some sense into her brother. I want to talk to Paige, to apologize for my abrupt departure the other day. I hate thinking of her mad at me. But after a day of sneezing and coughing, the worried doctors put her in isolation. Sometimes I walk by her room and watch her sleeping. One time she wakes and I blow on the window and scrawl the words I’m sorry. Her eyelids fall closed. I’m not sure she sees the message. Another time I catch a blue light seeping under the doorway and into the hallway. The baby.

Uneasy about the pulsing blue light, I remember my last dream. The crops were no longer dying, but the yellow eyes remained. Staring at me from a dark sky. Animals gathered around Earl’s snowy mountain. Scuttling, whinnying, bucking, and writhing. They crawled and skittered over one another. They growled and bit. More and more gathered under a full moon. Then they marched as a unit, away from the mountain, across the land. A black wave formed at their backs, pushing them on, destroying everything in its wake. Underneath it all was a thread of blue light. Like the baby’s.

The animals are monsters of the worst kinds of genetic chimeras. The black wave is made of insects and…something else. I can’t define it. I have no idea what the dream means. I can’t make any sense of it.

Keeping it quiet eats away at me. But I can’t bring myself to voice my fears. Not until I know more, if it really is a threat. Erica said Eli mentioned the yellow eyes. Maybe he can help.

Thinking of him eases the tension coiled in my shoulders. My thoughts continue down a more inappropriate path. Unnervingly inappropriate. I don’t want these feelings, but I don’t know how to stop them. But no one has ever understood me so completely. I can’t walk away from that.

Leaving the hospital, I make my way to Eli’s cabin. My head is a mess with Matt and my mom and Paige and the yellow eyes. He will understand. He’ll make it better.

Strolling along the moonlit path to Eli’s cabin, I dangle my fingers in the healed wheat as I walk. The smell of freshly plowed earth hangs in the air and the moon illuminates rows and rows of healthy crops. Crickets chirp and fall silent as I approach.

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