Three Fates Entwined (The Defectives Book 0) by Campbell Jamie

Author:Campbell, Jamie [Campbell, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: Wren

Only a few newspapers still printed on paper. Someone had thrown this one away. President Stone’s face peered out at me from the front page.

She had just approved the application to build another laboratory in Aria. That would bring the total up to fourteen. Why did they need so many? The city was already plagued with them, one more would crowd the landscape and result in more Defective Clones.

There seemed to be no logic to her madness.

I was created from her, I shared the exact same genes as the president. In theory, I should have been able to put some reason into her plans but I just couldn’t. We may have shared genes but we certainly didn’t share the same mind.

“Hey, what are you doing? Get out of here,” a skinny shopkeeper called out to me. “I don’t want the likes of you standing outside my stall.”

He started approaching as he continued to scream at me. I dropped the newspaper and ran, not wanting anyone to look twice at my famous face.

I sprinted for as long as my gimp foot would let me, which was about three blocks. It was enough to get me out of the shopkeeper’s line of sight so he wouldn’t come after me. His actions were nothing unusual, nobody welcomed Defectives. I just wondered what had given me away.

My stomach growled loudly as my heartrate slowed down again. I needed some food but it wouldn’t help returning to the village. The few pieces we stored in our hut were there for Rocky. I wasn’t going to take his food.

I wandered through the back alleyways until I found some trashcans. The garbage behind restaurants and cafes were always good for something to eat. Whatever I could scrounge from the refuse wouldn’t taste good but it would sustain my body for a few hours more.

Toward the bottom of a can was half a bread roll. It had lipstick marks on it and it was about a week old but I didn’t care. I pulled off small pieces and popped them in my mouth.

The newspaper article had said Stone would be attending a college opening today. The university had burned down about a year ago and they rebuilt it on the same site. Today was its grand reopening, a ceremony fit for a president.

Without thinking much about it, I ended up walking to the college. People spilled out from the grounds, everyone keen to catch a glimpse of our leader. It was easy to see what kind of people attended the college.

There wasn’t a speck of dirt amongst them.

They were all rich.

Nobody in Aria went to college unless they came from the Hills district. Some families from other districts saved for their whole lives to gather the tuition for their children, but they were never accepted. Stone wouldn’t want the masses educated – that was when they were most dangerous.

I hung back underneath a tree and focused my gaze on President Portia Stone. She looked better in her newspaper picture, the living version had sunken cheeks and eyes that never trusted anyone.

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