Undying by Kaufman Amie & Spooner Meagan

Author:Kaufman, Amie & Spooner, Meagan [Kaufman, Amie & Spooner, Meagan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781484755563
Google: x-2ztQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1484755561
Goodreads: 26839798
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Published: 2019-01-22T07:00:00+00:00

WE FIND A PLACE TO SIT ON THE TRAIN, CLUSTERED IN A SET OF four seats around a small table. As Neal digs through his backpack and hands out little cakes from a packet that says Madeleines on it, I can’t help turning over in my hand the device that I’m sure Dex left behind. It’s small, about the size of my palm, with the display on one side and a hard shell of some unknown alloy on the other. My fingertips trace the symbol for the Undying embossed there: a circle with a long tail arcing behind it.

Neal interrupts my thoughts. “You really think he left it for us to track him on purpose? It couldn’t be something he and Atlanta use to keep track of each other, and it was an accident?”

Mia makes a noise indicating just how likely she thinks that is, but I don’t look up at her. I can’t just now. The things she said are ricocheting around my mind like bullets hunting for a target. I need a chance to think. I need a moment alone. But I’m not going to get one—at least I hope not, because right now Neal and Mia are all I have.

“There’s more to Dex than we know,” I say. “Whatever their plan is, he has doubts. Perhaps he had them to begin with, or perhaps we’re just not what he expected.”

“My good looks probably did come as a surprise,” Neal says modestly, around a mouthful of food. “People rarely expect me to be this clever and this handsome.”

“He’s voiced doubts before,” I insist. “And there have been other moments.”

“The tattoo?” Mia asks, disbelieving. “It was a galaxy tattoo. Most galaxies are spiral shaped.”

I shake my head. “He was trying to draw attention to it. And we know someone within the Undying tried to use the Nautilus to warn us not to go near the ship in the first place.”

“Well, it couldn’t have been Dex,” she retorts. “He’s our age. Or he looks like it. Either way, he wasn’t carving reliefs in a temple fifty thousand years ago. Nothing lives that long.”

“It could be some kind of symbol of resistance,” I suggest. But even I know it’s a stretch. We don’t have any real evidence for that.

“The moment in the shuttle, though,” she says. “That, I have trouble explaining. I could have sworn he made us.”

“He did,” I agree. “Some parts, I’m not sure about. I’m still wondering if he helped me out, when I was bluffing us onto the shuttle. He asked if we trained with the Cortes squadron, and I didn’t know if he was trying to catch me out, or he thought that might explain why he and Atlanta wouldn’t recognize me. But he might have been trying to show me the way out with a leading question. There’s an explanation for that, but there’s no explanation for him seeing us and keeping it a secret from Atlanta, unless his loyalties are divided.”

“What I can’t understand,” Neal says, “is what those two are.

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