The Secret - Book One of the Marcus II Series by Somerville Bonnie

Author:Somerville, Bonnie [Somerville, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Chicagirl Publications
Published: 2012-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

In the evening Rachael and Kaley sat by the fire holding hands and leaning against each other. The reflection of the flames jumped and danced in their eyes. After dinner the older folk went back to their porches or their neighbors porches to talk and tell stories of times long past. The younger crowd sat by the fire taking great delight in scaring the daylights out of the teenagers. It was an age old tradition on Marcus II. Viva knew that Jaaza would be there tonight so she strongly urged Steph to join her. Jaaza sat next to Rachael talking quietly.

When Steph arrived with Viva, Jaaza tried to get up to leave but her cousin Rachael grabbed her arm and held it. Rachael turned to Kaley and asked her to tell a story. Steph and Viva took their seats at the edge of the group. Most of the stories that had been told around the fire had been told hundreds of times but Kaley grew up in the far north, a place many of the young people had never been. Rachael knew that Kaley was full of blarney as her Aunt Kitty would say. She had a gift for telling tall tales. “Kaley tell us about the Wildman of the North Woods.” Rachael urged. “I don’t know Rach. It might scare the younger folks.” Kaley replied mock seriously. This was obviously an often used and well-rehearsed set up line. Shouts of “please” and “tell us the story” rang out.

Steph frowned wondering what this was all about but when she looked at Jaaza she saw that she had a large grin on her face, clearly delighted. “Ok well it’s an ancient story that goes back to the beginning when Moira and Conrad and the rest first came to Marcus II. Conrad was a bit, well let’s call him eccentric. He was a brilliant biologist and geneticist and as you know he had the project with the Pendek. Well he moved his laboratory to the Far North Settlement. He didn’t want to have the Pendek become too accustomed to people as they were going to be released some day and he didn’t want them to become a nuisance to the settlers.” Kaley took a dramatic pause and took a drink of her Ajja wine. The teenagers were transfixed with their eyes wide. “So he took his family and a few other scientists and moved up to where the river meets the sea.” Kaley took a deep breath.

“He set up his laboratory and went about his research. Well they were there several months then weird things started happening. I know this is true because I was told by relatives who were direct descendants of the other scientists that were there.” Kaley took another long pause, looking in each young persons’ eyes. “There was one hut that no one was allowed to go into, Conrad’s private lab. No one was allowed in there… not even his old friend Moira! He would go there in the morning and be in there for hours on end, sometimes days would pass before anyone would see him.

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