Ultraviolet by Yvonne Navarro

Author:Yvonne Navarro [NAVARRO, YVONNE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC015000
ISBN: 9780446554770
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

The night sky was an ink-soaked blanket of stars and brilliantly colored explosions. She didn’t know what they were celebrating in the city’s interior tonight, but they had fireworks—the display went on and on and on, coating the interior of the truck’s roomy cab with flashes of scarlet, green, yellow, and blue, more colors than Violet could name. It was inexplicable, really, the way she couldn’t stop herself from watching, the way her gaze was drawn to the fire in the sky in much the same way as her ancestors, the ancient ones shared by her kind and humans alike, had probably been mesmerized by the red and orange flames of their first cooking fires. They—

Something inched into Violet’s consciousness before she could complete the thought, a sound that was out of place. She’d left the passenger door open to catch the breeze, and when she turned her head she saw Six look up at her from the open side. For a second, she wasn’t sure what to say, then she patted the seat. “Come on and sit.” When he obeyed, she told him, “Just don’t move. Or . . . talk.” A silly thing to say, really—most children were chatterboxes, but this kid hardly ever spoke a word.

Right now it was no different. He sat next to her and stared out the windshield, leaning forward slightly and placing his hands delicately on the dashboard so he could have a better view of the overhead show. Violet could see the colorful little explosions mirrored on the surface of his eyes, watch as his gaze flicked from side to side across the windshield as he tried to keep up with each new fireworks display. He was, she realized, seeing this for the first time; while somewhere in her consciousness she had known that, the epiphany was that she herself was doing the same . . . through him.

Finally, even though he hadn’t asked, she felt compelled to explain. “Humans,” she said. “Celebrating something.” When she realized what she’d said, Violet couldn’t stop the bittersweet feelings that spiked inside her, little memories that brought nothing but sharp, spiked pain. She had been human once, but the war had taken that away. The ArchMinistry wanted the world to think it was the virus’s fault, but that wasn’t true. Humans were prone to plenty of viruses, and hardly any of the other illnesses segregated its victims the way this one did. The ones that had? Eradicated. The key part was that the diseases had been eradicated, not their victims. The truth now was that the sickness part didn’t matter. Even the death part was only a piece of the whole pie. Sickness and death—those things could be easily tolerated, carefully treated, even contained. What couldn’t be allowed to continue was the strength, the speed, all the things inherent to H.P.V. that made its victims better than humans. It was all about power, not preservation. There was nothing blatant about the ArchMinistry’s extermination of vampires. It was all subjective, much like killing in the name of religion.

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