Awakening by Karen Sandler

Author:Karen Sandler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781600609831
Publisher: Tu Books
Published: 2013-03-03T06:00:00+00:00

Kayla let the thought into her mind before she could stop it. That would mean I could create a child with Devak someday.

It was stupid to even think. She wasn’t sure she even wanted a baby, ever. Not considering how GENs were treated by trueborns. And certainly not now when she was so young.

Even if she took the step of being restored like Mishalla and became a lowborn and there was a way to have her body fixed so she could bear a child, there was the little problem of Devak being a high-status trueborn. A trueborn who wanted nothing to do with her.

Maybe with time, she might find someone else, but . . . that train of thought was too much right now. Better to focus on Mishalla’s mission.

“Did you know about this?” she asked Devak.

“No,” he said. “Pitamah never said anything. Although something else makes sense now.”

“What’s that?” Kayla asked.

“Pitamah saw Hala at GAMA headquarters a couple weeks ago, just as we were leaving. If Hala has figured out a way to give GENs the ability to reproduce, he must be working on it at Akhilesh’s lab.”

“Zul doesn’t know,” Mishalla said. “Hala said it’s only in the very experimental stages and it may not even pan out. Even if it does happen it will take a few years, time for me and Eoghan to be ready for a child of our own.”

“You’re willing to take the chance?” Kayla asked. “Hala would probably have to put you back in the tank, Mishalla. He could do things to you, make changes you can’t control.”

“I know that,” she said. “But it’s worth the risk to me. To be able to bring a child into the world with my own body, a child that’s mine and Eoghan’s. I love the fosters, but they’re so easily taken away from me.”

“But why make you work for the Kinship in exchange?” Kayla asked. “Why not just fix you when the treatment is ready?”

“Because completing the mission is the first step,” Mishalla said. “A GEN girl who volunteered to try the uterine restoration had a bad side effect and panicked partway through the experiment. Before they realized what was happening to her, she escaped from the lab. Even worse, she may have caught Scratch after she ran away.”

Kayla zeroed in on that word volunteered. Why would a volunteer run away? Kayla didn’t believe that for an instant. “How long ago was that? With Scratch, she’d have to be dead or dying by now.”

“Hala said the Brigade has seen her recently and she looked well,” Mishalla said. “So it’s possible she never had Scratch at all.”

Kayla’s suspicion sharpened even more. “What’s so important about this one girl?”

Now Mishalla’s eyes lit with excitement. “They were growing a womb inside her. It had failed in the other GEN volunteers, but in her it was working, Kayla. The girl is few years older than us, but they were getting close to being able to reprogram her body enough to make her fertile.

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