The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow

Author:Alechia Dow
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Inkyard Press
Published: 2019-12-18T16:36:36+00:00

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Ellie is silent for the next hour until she falls asleep. During that time, M0Rr1S re-creates the formula exactly as before on a program set up within his mind. He recalculates the atoms used and their placement, so that he can upload it to Distribution Services—labmade Ilori trained specifically to use their charges, their abilities, to form physical copies of the vaccine expediently. They wait with the same ingredient list M0Rr1S gave them the first time, in centers across the world, ready to create. M0Rr1S shifts on the kitchen stool to steal a quick glance at Ellie while she rests.

He serves a purpose, as all Ilori do. To create the vaccine. But he serves another purpose, too; to implant the chips and write a code, his masterpiece, that will trigger a shift in the consciousness when it’s broadcast across Earth through the Il-0CoM frequency. Plans upon plans that required an incredible level of evasiveness, especially inside Il-0CoM.

Glind, M0Rr1S’s mother, not only trained and prepared him to read his fellow Ilori minds, but to avoid detection. It takes focus and a level of energy that, if used for too long, can drain his entire charge. Until recently, he played his role without arousing suspicion, never needing to mask his actions. He created the vaccines under surveillance. He did everything required of him. He was the picture of loyalty and compliance...until he landed in New York and then saved Ellie. Now he has a chance to rectify a problem that occurred the moment he left his quadrant.

The vaccines he created were not the ones being distributed to centers across the world. He was not aware that the doctor in New York had changed his formula until they took him to the police station two days ago.

There, M0Rr1S learned that, after he’d left, the Ilori doctor had fixed one minor glitch for all outgoing distributions of the vaccine from the center. He had asked whether the consciousness of the human was still in there. His slip had made things difficult. He’d known it was a mistake as soon as he’d asked, but he’d hoped it had been overlooked. It was naive of him to believe it could have been. Optimism had no place in his plans.

The humans already vaccinated still carried the glitch, but the new vaccines were...a problem. So, M0Rr1S had to lie about why he saved Ellie. Why he did not take his pod to the carriership above as planned. He had to guard himself through surface prying, through four separate interrogations, through fatigue and cold. He made himself believe his own lies. And when they cleared him, he connected on a private channel with AvR0la, one Glind had helped him create to avoid detection from true Ilori and Il-0CoM.

M0Rr1S very briefly checked in on Ellie’s family, all fine and hidden in permanent housing, then had AvR0la contact cohorts to destroy distribution centers, making it appear as if the human resistance was fighting back. The plan worked. The doctor

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