Brink's End Book Two by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Odette C. Bell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Harvey

They were on the run. They’d be on the run until they finally found a way off this world. But where exactly would they go?

Harvey hated this place. You knew that. In his head, he’d pretty much written it off. He’d stopped referring to this planet as the place he’d been born. It’d just been a piece of his past, like a single unimportant page ripped from a history book. But he was back here. And this was still his world.

He started to recognize where he was. He’d been to this city. He’d lived here for two years.

It was unrecognizable because someone had leveled it then leveled it again.

What does it even mean to lay claim to a place? If you don’t own it, if it’s something as large as a city, then surely you can’t possess it?

So how do you lay claim to it? Through a sense of connection? What even is that? Because it’s not like you can be connected to the actual city. Once you leave it, you’re not even touching it. So it’s your memories, right? And what’s the point of connecting to something that’s already been destroyed?

He knew he wasn’t making sense, but bear with him. Harvey had memories of a different city. Because this place had been changed, had been razed to the ground. Everything that had once been recognizable was gone. Yet somehow it was still the same city. And even though Harvey had never been able to appreciate this, there was still a part of him that called out to it.

Because apparently he’d never been quite as coldhearted as he’d assumed.

And maybe Rae knew that.

They’d run to a much lower part of the city, though he’d already told you it had pretty much been leveled after that worm had essentially gone nuclear. Speaking of it, who was to say there weren’t more worms just like that winding their way underneath the unrecognizable city streets?

Tatiana must be here. Or at least one of her underlings.

Or one of the Underside.

They must be running their experiments.

No, it was worse than that, wasn’t it? They must’ve been running their experiments for years. Harvey really doubted you could just deploy life-altering technology and change that worm, for example, into a giant fiend in the space of a few seconds.

“Why this planet then, Tatiana?” Harvey questioned aloud.

Rae was paying close attention to him. “What does your planet have to do with mine? Or do you think that she is taking every single war-torn planet across the universe and running her experiments on them?”

It was easy as hell for Harvey to shake his head. That particular assertion was simply impossible. “The Guardians would’ve found out. Tatiana must’ve been doing something to this planet for years. I really doubt she just deployed the life altering-tech here recently. I imagine,” Harvey knew this was just a guess, but he was going to make it anyway, “she’s been here for years. Maybe two, maybe five – it’s hard to say.”

“So what is the connection between our two worlds?”

Harvey opened his mouth.

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