Truth Changer by Kay L. Moody

Author:Kay L. Moody
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ya fantasy, dystopian fantasy, strong female lead, glass dome, young adult fantasy, romantic fantasy, teen fantasy
Publisher: Marten Press
Published: 2019-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

ABE STARED AT HIS CONTROLS AS he flew his jet over Africa. The controls didn’t indicate anything was wrong, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off.

“Can you stop whistling for a second?” he asked.

Darius rolled his eyes. Instead of whistling, he switched to tapping the dashboard in front of him. “How much longer until we get there? All this plane travel makes me antsy.”

Abe had the strong desire to flick Darius, but instead chose to do a quick, in-flight diagnostic instead. “We’ve only been flying for twelve minutes. It used to take hours to go this distance.”

Darius tapped the dashboard harder. “Yeah, and I would have complained about it back then too.”

“Keiko,” Abe said suddenly.

He felt bad interrupting her while she was on a phone call with Husani, but he needed her hacking skills.

She popped her head into the cockpit. “I know you think it’s safer for me in Nairobi, but I’m still going to help you guys do stuff once we get there. You have to stop treating me like a child.”

Abe waved a hand through the air. “That’s not what I was going to say. Look at this diagnostic. Does anything look weird to you?”

“Oh,” Keiko said with a victorious grin. She glanced over to her hologram screen, which showed Husani grinning even harder than her. She swept up to the dashboard and said to Husani, “See, we’re not even in Kenya and they already need my help.”

Husani snickered. “That’s my girl, showing everybody up without even trying.”

Keiko tapped a few controls on the dashboard before she shrugged. “I don’t know what the readings for the air outside are supposed to be like, so I don’t know if I can help you there.”

“They’re all in the acceptable range,” Abe said. “They just seem too uniform, if you know what I mean.”

“Did you know this jet is not pure steel,” Darius said with a hand cupped over his ear. “It actually has a lot of impurities, and I’m guessing whoever sold it to you failed to disclose that.”

Keiko rolled her eyes, “And you’re basing that information on what exactly?”

Darius sat up in his chair with a look that suggested he’d been waiting for this moment. “I have elemental hearing.” He pointed his nose a little higher in the air. “I’ll be hila wasomi by the end of next summer.”

Keiko groaned. “Did we really have to take this guy? I’ve known him for less than an hour and I’m already about to lose my mind.”

Husani snickered from the hologram screen.

Abe ignored them all. “See, right here. Don’t these readings look too perfect to you? They’re all within range, but there’s usually more variance. You don’t think there’s a program or something messing with the readings, do you?”

Keiko started to shrug until the controls showed a little blip. Abe was ready to dismiss her and send her back to the cab, but when Keiko saw that blip, she lunged forward and put her hands on the controls.

“What is it?” he asked.

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