The Significant by Anderson Kyra

Author:Anderson, Kyra [Anderson, Kyra]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-06-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Kailynn fell asleep again only one hour before the sun rose. Isa had fallen asleep earlier, but Kailynn remained awake, looking over her face, worried about the distant and cold look she had seen on the Golden Elite.

She slept uneasily and woke after sleeping only two hours.

Isa was not in the bed.

Kailynn leapt out of bed and darted into the bathroom. Isa was showering, but she was sitting against the wall under the spray, her head down, her knees tucked into her chest.

Kailynn opened the shower door and walked in, hissing at the scorching temperature. Trying to ignore it, she kneeled next to Isa and pulled some wet hair out of her face. Isa turned her head. Her eyes were still cold and dark, but she was moving at a normal pace, which eased Kailynn’s mind a little.

She sat next to the Elite and took her hand, entwining their fingers.

They sat in silence for what felt like an eternity.

“I’m sure you have a lot of questions…” Isa finally murmured.

“I do.”

“Maki…” Isa trailed off.

“He was trying to shut down Venus,” Kailyn completed. “I thought you said it wasn’t possible, but it sounds like he made something that could let you do it.”

“Just the power supply,” Isa said, her eyes distant. “That means we could get power to the cities and shorten the time to reprogram the planet, but only if she were shut down entirely.”

“And that’s not possible?”

“…anything is possible,” she whispered. Kailynn looked at Isa in surprise, trying to discern the Elite’s tone.

“You wanted to shut her down when you were in school?” Kailynn asked. Isa nodded slowly.

“The numbers proved that it was the best thing for the planet,” Isa said, her voice monotone and even. “Statistics show that the longer she is in power, the bigger the social gap becomes.” The Golden Elite sighed heavily. “They make one hundred Elites every six years,” she explained. “For the first generations of Elites, it was not uncommon for a Syndicate to remain in power for over a decade. That meant that two generations of Elites were made and not chosen to participate in the Syndicate. And, of the generations where there was a Syndicate turnover, only fifteen Elites were chosen, leaving eighty-five Elites without Syndicate work.”

Isa turned to look at Kailynn seriously.

“These Elites outside of the Syndicate take the highest-paying jobs in society. If an Elite and a human were interviewed for the same job, and Elite would always get the position. They work harder, they are smarter and learn faster, they have no emotions, and they don’t exhaust the same as a human. For this reason, the humans moved around the planet in an attempt to get out of the job market where Elites dominated, but the Elites started moving around the planet as well, because Elites don’t get fired or replaced the same way humans do.”

“But Dr. Busen is a human, isn’t he?”

“His father was an Elite,” Isa said. “He had connections that allowed him to study and be employed in Elite Specialty Studies.

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