Yesterday Again by Barry Lyga & Barry Lyga

Author:Barry Lyga & Barry Lyga
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-545-52032-4
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

“It was after I started touching the bom …” Mike hesitated, then continued, sounding out the word as Mairi nodded along with him, “… the zombies that I noticed my powers were becoming … becoming …”

“Weaker?” Mairi supplied.

“I was going to say ‘unstronger,’ but I think your word is better.”

My word is a word, Mairi thought.

“I don’t know what to do now,” Mike admitted. “I couldn’t save anyone. I don’t know if I can save you.”

“That’s all right,” Mairi said. “We’ll save each other, okay?” She smiled reassuringly at Mike, even though the last thing she felt like doing right now was smiling.

He smiled back. “Yes. Very excellent. We’ll save each other. That will be very nice.”

“Unless we can figure out what’s going on,” Mairi said, “we might be here awhile. Until the Army comes. Or until your powers come back.”

Mike brightened. “Do you think that will happen?”

“It could. Who knows?”

Mike paced the lighthouse. “We need to know.”

“Know what?”

“How strong I still am.”

“Well, sure, that would be helpful, but —”

CLANG!

Mairi jumped; Mike had delivered a karate blow to the post bolted into the floor that held the massive lighthouse lantern. The entire lamp structure vibrated.

“Mike!”

He did it again, and this time the post bent just a bit. Mairi scrambled out of the way as the lamp structure tilted crazily toward her.

“Stop it, Mike!”

Mike pulled away from the lamp. “I needed to know.”

“I didn’t know you were still strong enough for that!” Mairi limped over to where Mike stood. The post was crimped and dented. It would have been hugely impressive if Mairi didn’t know for a fact that Mike should have been able to punch through it with one shot. “I didn’t think you could still do that.”

And then she noticed that his knuckles were bleeding.

Mike stared at it as though he’d never seen his own blood before. And Mairi thought that maybe he hadn’t. Unwrapping her scarf, she offered it to him.

He flexed his fingers, testing his hand. “It’s not broken. I will be KO’d.”

“It’s actually ‘okay,’” Mairi finally told him.

Mike nodded grimly. “Yes. Of course. I knew that one already. Stupid of me to forget it.”

“Don’t worry about it. Here” — still holding out the scarf — “For the bleeding.”

He took the scarf and wound it around his hand carefully. “This is strange,” he said.

“You’ve never been really hurt before,” Mairi said. “At least not since you got your powers and your amnesia. You should —”

“That’s not what I mean.” He pointed to the lamp, which still flashed despite the abuse he’d dished out to it. “It keeps doing the same thing, over and over.”

“Right. It’s flashing.”

“But I mean …” Mike sounded puzzled. Well, more puzzled than usual. “It’s not always flashing the same way.”

She realized Mike was right — the light would stop for a moment, then start up again. She watched it, almost hypnotized by it, and realized that what had appeared to be random was actually a pattern. There were two kinds of bursts — long ones and short ones — and they were repeating….

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