Anomaly by Scott Prussing

Author:Scott Prussing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic, young adult, postapocalyptic, new adult, blue fire, prussing
Publisher: Scott Prussing

CHAPTER 19

THIRTEEN PAIRS OF EYES scanned the ocean as the lifeboat glided slowly eastward. Only the four men rowing the skiff did not peer intently across the gently rolling sea—they concentrated on dipping the oars into the water as smoothly and quietly as possible.

No one looked harder than Radar. Searching the surface of the blue-green water desperately for some sign of her best friend, she wished that her Power enabled her to detect the other Miracles as easily as she detected the appearance of an Anomaly. Her eyes were no better than anyone else’s, though—heck, she hadn’t even seen Leah fall overboard. She silently cursed herself for her failure. Had she been more alert, she could have done something to try to rescue Leah.

The tears that welled up in her eyes from time to time didn’t help, either. So far, she had managed to keep them from overflowing and running down her cheeks, but as her heart grew heavier with every passing minute, she didn’t know how much longer she would be able to hold them back.

So far, they had plucked only one survivor from the sea, a Navy Seal they found clinging to a broken section of mast. From what they could tell, one of the inflatable boats had also rescued someone. But that was it, just two rescues, and they were coming near the edge of the now widespread debris field. Worse, the sun hovered pretty low in the western sky behind them. Radar guessed they had maybe an hour of daylight left. The thought brought more tears to her eyes.

Colonel Gallway rested his hand upon her shoulder.

“Don’t give up hope,” he told her. “From the moment she was born, Leah and I have had a very special connection. I don’t know why, but I think if she were dead, I would somehow know it.”

Radar looked up into the colonel’s face. He seemed sincere—she saw no sign that he was just hoping against hope, or merely trying to comfort her. She could well believe that Leah and her dad shared a special connection—after all, Leah was the true Miracle, the first child born after ten years of human barrenness. Besides, Radar herself had a pretty strong connection to both her parents.

She wiped the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand.

“I hope you’re right.” She turned away from Colonel Gallway and went back to scanning the ocean for some sign of her friend.

Despite the careful search by the three boats, they found no more survivors in the water. The sun was now a shimmering red orb floating on the edge of the ocean. Darkness would soon make any further search a near impossibility, and they had passed the end of the debris field some time back. Colonel Gallway knew the best thing he could do now was get everyone safely to land.

Reluctantly, he signaled to the two dinghies and gave the order to his oarsmen. They immediately began pulling harder on the oars, more than doubling the boat’s speed as it headed east toward the coast, now visible as dark bulge on the horizon.

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