The Survivors (Book 10): The Academy by Hystad Nathan

Author:Hystad, Nathan [Hystad, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alien Invasion
Publisher: Woodbridge Press
Published: 2019-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

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Jules set her tray on an empty table on the edge of the lunchroom. Students had been kinder to her since she’d been responsible for a field trip to the surface of a new world, but that was short-lived. It wasn’t that they were mean; instead they were only… distant. She didn’t even bother saying hello to most of them as they passed in the halls, because the lack of response was heartbreaking.

She poked at the food on her plate with a fork and wished Patty was there beside her. The other girl always made friends quickly and easily, and by proxy, Jules had had people surrounding her. It had felt like she was in a group of friends, but the truth became evident the moment her real best friend was no longer attending the Academy. She was once again alone.

Rumi was the only one who gave her the time of day, but he was only in half of her classes, and he usually ate lunch at a different hour than her. It was fine, she told herself. She didn’t need any of them. Once she was grown up and a full Gatekeeper, she’d have a partner, and they would be as close as siblings. She’d be a hero, and the entire Alliance would want to speak with her and be friends, like they did with Papa.

She ate a few bites of the food, finding it tasteless, and saw Dean walk into the lunchroom. He was with a few of his classmates, and his gaze found hers briefly before he let it settle on a table across the room from her. He led his group there, and Jules felt the last of her composure snap.

Jules had to stop being so depressed. She closed her eyes and let her powers drift over the barrier. She knew her eyes were glowing green, but she kept them pressed shut as she used the abilities to calm herself, to focus on something, anything but the pain of being so lonely.

A seething hatred for everything around them filled her, and for a moment, she thought it was her own loathing. It wasn’t. She was picking up someone else’s thoughts, like a radio picking up a distant message.

It was powerful, but she couldn’t look up. Doing so would give away her eyes, and she would be even further ostracized. Jules tried to hone in on the unyielding emotion seeping from the person, but couldn’t tell if it came from a man or a woman, human or otherwise.

The message was clear: the Academy must be destroyed.

The feeling released almost as suddenly as it entered her mind, and she pressed the powers away, snapping them shut with a groan. She ran for the main exit, trying to see who had vacated the lunchroom. There were too many of them.

Jules rushed to a group of students and stood by the lockers, watching them go by. There were three humans, two girls and one boy, along with a Keppe, Bhlat, and Molariun.

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