Weavers by Kate Avery Ellison

Author:Kate Avery Ellison
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: EllisonBooks
Published: 2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

“ECHLOS,” I BREATHED.

Gabe stopped and swung to look at me. He seemed surprised that I hadn’t known. “Yes,” he said. “Here, they call this place the Labs. Echlos is the name of the organization who built it, but it is the same place where they keep the gates, the place you took me that night.”

Dazed, I stared at the sight before me. The structure looked so different beneath this warm blue sky, free from snow or debris or crumbling vines. New, clean, sparkling. Beautiful. Part of the river had been diverted to flow across the front of the building, and it fell in a ribbon of silver between two bridges that led to the doors. All around us, ferns and rushes shivered in the breeze.

“Come on,” Gabe said, reaching out for my arm, but he stopped before he touched me and let his hand fall. He stepped forward toward the buildings, and I followed him along the paved white path that snaked up the hill, a path that would crumble away in the 500 years between my time and this one. My stomach fell as we reached the shadow of the doors, a place that was now just a hole in my own time. They gleamed silver in the sunlight.

They swished open with a musical tone, and the wind blew my hair back. I resisted the urge to gasp. We stepped inside, and again I was struck by how familiar and yet how strange it all was. The hallway I recognized from before stretched ahead of us, but now it was free from dust and grime. The floors shone. The ceiling burned bright as a captured sun. The air smelled faintly of something sharp and metallic.

We descended a flight of steps, the same flight of steps I’d descended with Adam only months previous. On the wall, I saw the painted letters. ECHLOS. I breathed out. I reached up and touched them lightly with my fingertips. Shivers crawled over my skin, and I knew if I shut my eyes, I’d see the memory of the dimly lit cavern and Adam’s dark eyes meeting mine.

“Come on,” Gabe said softly, jogging me back to the present. We continued to the bottom of the stairs and down a long hall.

“Garrett?”

We both turned at the voice that had called Gabe’s other name. A thin man in a white robe stood at the end of the hall, eyeing us curiously. He had silver-white hair that brushed the edges of his shoulders and a long, narrow chin. When he frowned at us, his mouth puckered.

“Hello, Doctor Borde,” Gabe said. His tone was respectful, cautious.

A shiver went through me from my scalp to my toes. Doctor Borde. The man Jonn had asked me to get a piece of paper to.

“Do you have those deliveries I’ve been expecting?” the man asked. “I’ve been waiting for half an hour.”

“Yes, sir.” Gabe produced a sheaf of papers and passed them to the man. The doctor took them and examined them briefly before raising his head to regard me.

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