Aporia by Bisi Leyton

Author:Bisi Leyton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Horror, Young Adult, Zombies
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Published: 2013-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Jason Webb was a half-human, half-Famila man in his mid-twenties who had disappeared from the Isle of Smythe when Didan and his cohorts arrived.

Wisteria had been told that the empirics had taken Jason prisoner, and he was still rotting somewhere in a bridewell. “How is this possible?”

“All of you--inside now,” he ordered without acknowledging her.

“Okay.” Ollie dragged herself to her feet and slowly ambled down the path.

Wisteria rose and examined the man more closely.

Ignoring her, he trailed Ollie to the fence. Upon getting there, he unlocked the gate and led the girls through. When they were on the other side, he radioed someone and soon an electric car appeared to take the girls home.

“We could’ve walked,” Wisteria commented. She wasn’t so certain now if he was her old friend. Surely by now he would’ve acknowledged her.

“Consider this a courtesy. After all, you are ladies and I’m a gentleman.” He opened the door for Ollie.

“Thanks Jason,” Ollie replied.

It was him!

After Ollie was gone, he turned back to Wisteria. “Wisteria, I’m sorry about the cold shoulder earlier. I didn’t want Ollie to get interested in what we were talking about. You wouldn’t believe the ears on that kid.”

She hugged her friend tightly. “What are you doing here?” Wisteria finally let him go. “I thought Didan had you.”

“He did, for a while, but I had the dark glass, so I used it to escape here. I barely made it here alive.”

Dark glass was the substance from which thresholds were made. The Family used thresholds as doorways to travel between realms. Somehow, Jason had created a type of dark glass that allowed him to open up thresholds in any glass surface. This was an artifact that Felip had managed to take from him.

“And they just let you in here?” Wisteria asked.

“They let you in, right? So, why not me?” Jason pointed out. “I used to work with RZC and I’m a tinkerer, which is what they need if they want the biel core to last another twenty years.”

A biel core was a black orb The Family used to generate power.

“They’re using Family artifacts?”

“Yep, the biel core is the only thing I know of that is powerful, clean, and small enough to generate the volume of energy this town consumes.”

That explained why there was so much energy to waste on unimportant things, like electric scooters and TVs for kids. “Why do they have The Family’s artifacts?”

“I don’t know, but it’s pretty obvious they were prepared; much better prepared than we were.” He gestured around.

It seemed like the perfect place to wait out the end of the world.

“You will not believe the kinds of things that used to go on here,” Jason shared. “They have almost got a real cure for Nero. Your father says in a few months, they will be there.”

“That’s great!” She knew it. Her father wasn’t the monster her mother said he was. “He’s going to save everyone.”

“I wouldn’t go that far.” Jason seemed uncomfortable. “There’s a lot about your father you don’t understand, but it isn’t my place to say.

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