The Vanished by Sarah Dalton

Author:Sarah Dalton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781481863391
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

25

“What about us?” I blurted out.

Dr Woods stared me down with cold eyes. “What about you?”

“We’re a powerful unit. We can work together to help you,” I said.

“Mina, I don’t think––” Dad started.

“––Hear me out,” I interrupted. I turned back to the Council, talking mainly to Mary and Sergeant Kinsella, the two people on the Council who had the most sense. “You know about our powers but do you know how we fit together? Do you know that we are connected?”

General Lloyd leaned forward in his chair. “In what way?”

“Well, I can move things. I’m touch. Hiro hears thoughts. He’s hearing. Mike smells emotion. He’s smell. Daniel sees the future. He’s sight. Kitty tracks by taste.” I paused and looked at the confused faces of the Council. “Don’t you see? We’re connected by senses. Don’t you understand how powerful that makes us as a unit? Daniel sees Hamish coming through his vision – that makes us prepared for the attack. When they are close Kitty will taste them arriving and Mike and Hiro will be able to tell us what the army are thinking and feeling. Before they even attack us we will know how many there are, what they plan to do and how they feel about it.” I stopped and looked around triumphantly.

General Lloyd leaned back and turned to his ally, the doctor. They shared a look. “And what about you?”

“What?” I asked General Lloyd.

“What do you bring to this little group?” He waggled his hand in our direction.

“I can throw them around. I can flip cars and tanks, disarm them, lift people in the air.”

“So you’re the fighter,” he said, sounding impressed.

Mary snorted. “Ach, Mina, this is impossible. I dunnae care what ye can dae and what ye can’t, ye still a bunch o’kids. I’m not havin’ ye get hurt.”

“But, Mary, you saw how I helped the Scavengers get out of Area 14,” I protested.

“Yes, and I saw ye get grazed by a bullet. Fer God’s sake yer fifteen years old, lass.” She leaned back in her chair in exasperation. “The lad’s a bairn.” She pointed at Hiro.

“Now, wait a minute, Mary. They may be children, but they are genetically modified,” General Lloyd said.

“We might not be.” I narrowed my eyes. I didn’t like his tone. It was almost suggesting that we could be sacrificed on the basis of not being fully human. “We might just be more evolved than you.”

Mike laughed.

“This is utter nonsense,” Dad snapped. “Mary is correct here. You are too young and undertrained to deal with anything like this. There is an army out there more than capable of dealing with the attack.”

“But we could save lives,” I said.

“You could lose yours,” Sergeant Kinsella interrupted. “Then where would the world be? Without its sensory warriors.”

“I say let them do it,” Arthur Pittmore leaned so far back on the sofa that the springs creaked. “If they are genetically modified then the world can create new monsters. If in fact they need to.”

Dr Woods had

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