Winter by Jessica Florence

Author:Jessica Florence [Florence, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Gwendolyn

“I can’t believe you just build these complex robots in one night. You’re a fucking genius,” Arthur exclaimed as we walked along the bank of the Hatcher River.

“It comes easy to me. There is already stuff like this made, though. I just added my own thing to it.” Even though comments like his come my way often, I still didn’t know what to do with them. To me, making robots was fun. I liked coming up with ideas and figuring out how to make it work. My power of metal manipulation made it easier. I didn’t need a lot of tools or equipment to make my ideas into reality.

“You made a freaking fish cam. Gwendolyn, that’s amazing.”

I just gave him a simple smile as my thanks. I watched on the remote screen as my little robot fish swam up the river, looking for anything suspicious.

So far, we’d found most of the life in the water was dead. Only a few live fish were swimming around instead of the normal schools. Something was killing the life in the water, and the plants on the banks were showing brown in their foliage.

“Poor fish.” I felt bad for them. Whatever was happening, it wasn’t their fault.

“I think I see something ahead. Like a building.”

I looked up to where he was pointing and could just barely make out what he was seeing. Maybe it was a building. We’d been walking for an hour and a half—about time we ran into something. But it was odd to have a random building in the woods.

The closer we got, the more I could make out. It wasn’t just a building. It was a large, warehouse-sized building directly over the river and allowing the water to flow through. Somehow, I doubted that was approved by the EPA.

“Let’s check it out,” Arthur said, a little quieter this time. In case there were people around, maybe?

“I don’t think so. I mean, we have no clue what’s in there.”

“That’s why we need to check it out, see if we can figure out what the deal is.” He made a valid point, but there were a lot of unknown variables here.

But I followed him on, still pushing my robot fish forward to get a look inside the building. We stopped walking and stayed behind a tree close to a six-foot fence that surrounded the open property.

There were two men at the security gate about twenty yards away from us.

What was going on here?

Looking back down at my fish, I knew I needed it to be a little stealthier for this mission inside the building. On the screen I saw an opening where a small section of the river flowed through the building. The color of the water changed to a dark brown as I neared the opening. It was hard to see with the camera, almost as if someone had dumped coffee in the water.

“What the hell?” Arthur was now looking at the screen with me. It was odd for sure.

My little fish made it through the opening, and I shifted it to look up to what was above the water.

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