Vanishing Rain (Blue Spectrum Chronicles Book 2) by L.L. Crane

Author:L.L. Crane [Crane, L.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2015-09-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Necklaces

I couldn’t sleep since I was still too wound up. I stared at Troll, lounging against the wall with his eyes closed. I could take the fingers, tear something off of my clothes and make some sort of a necklace out of the fingers….leave him and make it to the Asters on my own, maybe take the pup with me. But the pup still didn’t look like she was in too good of shape. I guessed that I could leave her, but that thought felt like leaving my family and friends. Just another horrible good-bye.

I studied Troll, a trigonometry equation I couldn’t quite figure out. He was barely more than a boy himself. I wondered what had caused him to want to be an Exile. Or at least try to be…what made him leave his home. Was he a thief? A murderer? My mind spun several different scenarios as to why Troll was in the abandoned subway tunnel. I would never have left the comforts of home if I wasn’t pregnant, if I knew I could keep the baby without endangering its life.

I leaned my back against the subway wall, mimicking Troll, the coldness seeping into my back. I was tired to the bone, but I dared not sleep. What if another mutant came? Troll said that he didn’t know if many were left, but one was definitely enough for me. I stared at the dead mutant, sprawled out before me. It was really sad, a human like animal splayed out on the floor, leaking its insides out all over the place. It was the first real death I had ever seen, and I was mesmerized at how easily its heart quit beating, how the life just flew out of it in an instant. Pan asked me if I could kill a human. Staring at the mutant, I wasn’t so sure of myself anymore.

I reached into my pack. I wasn’t hungry what with the huge beast spread out before us, but I thought of the baby inside of me. I hadn’t eaten since early morning when Pan and Garment and Blush stuffed me with so much food I thought I would bust.

Carefully, I dug out one of the sealed packages of rations. I opened the silver lining and pulled out the compact nutrition bar that was nestled inside. Before I could even take a bite, a voice interrupted, cascading toward me in hollow tunnel sounds.

“Not even going to share?” It was Troll. He had one eye open and the other closed. He looked silly, hunched down against the wall like that. I let out a little giggle, then suddenly felt guilty for not even offering some of my food to him. He had shared the alligator jerky with me.

“Sure,” I answered. “I thought you were asleep.” I broke off a chunk of the nutrition bar and handed it to him. He quickly snatched it with his grubby fingers, stuffing it into his mouth, like a half-starved urchin.

He didn’t bother closing his mouth as he chewed, talking at the same time.

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