The Sowing by Makansi K

Author:Makansi, K. [Makansi, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Layla Dog Press
Published: 2013-12-15T07:00:00+00:00

19 - REMY

Fall 91, Sector Annum 105, 02h45

Gregorian Calendar: December 20

I awake from a sleep that at last brought some semblance of peace. I look around groggily to try to find whatever disturbance stirred me from my rest. My left leg has fallen entirely asleep—ah, that must be it. I shift my thigh slightly against the cold, hard floor and thump my leg a few times, rousing it from numbness. The pins and needles set in and I grit my teeth, waiting for them to fade. When they finally do, I lean my head against Soren’s shoulder.

“Remy,” he croaks. “Are you awake?”

“Yeah,” I whisper back. He is silent for a moment. I wonder what time it is. I lost all sense of time when I passed out on the mission and then woke up on a gurney in a doctor’s office, strapped to the bed. It could have been two hours or two days since I was sitting across that desk from Philip, and I wouldn’t know the difference.

“Why didn’t they ask us about the you-know-what? I can’t stop thinking about that.”

“Maybe Eli was wrong. Maybe Corine doesn’t have it. Maybe nobody in the Sector knows about it.”

“But then why would she have ordered Hawthorne killed?” I ponder this.

“He didn’t know Eli had downloaded a copy, right? So maybe he kept it hidden—just like my granddad did. Maybe she couldn’t find it,” I respond.

Soren forgets to spit back his usual derisive expression. I guess being held hostage, starved, and tortured does something to bring people together.

“It doesn’t make sense,” he says finally. “Corine’s too smart to let something she desperately wants slip her notice just because Hawthorne hid it well. I don’t buy it. I think it’s Philip and Aulion who are in the dark. They don’t know about it.”

“But why would Corine hide something that important from Philip?”

Soren is silent.

“He’s not just the chancellor—he’s her husband, too.”

After a few minutes, he takes a deep breath. “I don’t know.”

We sit in silence for a while, the mystery and confusion mingling with the sleep deprivation and hunger to create a chaos in my mind. The bleak, white walls of the room are starting to press in on my brain, and I notice that the room is starting to smell rank and foul. I wish they’d let us wash. I notice the goosebumps on my skin. It’s cold, and I wonder how long they’ll keep us in here. How long before they’ll feed us.

“Remy,” Soren croaks again. “Do you think they’re coming for us?”

“Corine and Philip?” I close my eyes. Yes. But that’s not the question—the question is what they’re going to do with us.

“No, Eli. Rhinehouse. Your parents.”

“Well they’re sure as shit not going to let us rot in here.” If there’s one thing I know about Eli, he’ll go through hell to get us back. He’ll fly in here with Firestone and blow the roof off the building if that’s what it comes to, the Director and all her plans be damned.

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