Chameleon (The Domino Project Book 1) by Hanna K.T

Author:Hanna, K.T. [Hanna, K.T.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Young Adult, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
ISBN: 9781514777688
Publisher: Amaranthine Press
Published: 2015-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

They pull to a stop just outside UC 22. The vehicle hovers just high enough for Sai to see into the bowels of the city if she looks through her field binoculars. Children play in the brown, sludgy water that trickles from the pipes overhead. The fading chill in the morning air makes the scene resonate pitifully. Memories threaten to assault her, but Sai gulps down the misery and sets her jaw.

The crumbling remnants of what were once the same type of high-towered concrete apartments her family occupied are barely enough to provide crude shelter from the worst of the elements.

She’d heard about the scandal. The builders cut corners when rebuilding after the meteors struck in 2172, wiping most of the habitable coastal settlements out, shattering cities between them, and destroying the ozone and much of the atmosphere.

They rebuilt along the Mid-American strip despite Oklahoma City being a danger zone. When the cost ate into the profits as they reached the outskirts, many of the builders cut corners and used compounds of lesser durability in the outlying blocks of every city.

Watching the children play in the refuse, clutching threadbare garments to their too-thin frames, their hollow cheeks and sunken eyes easily visible, Sai’s gut clenches and threatens to make her lose her breakfast.

“Has it always been like this?” she asks quietly.

“Has what been like what? There are a lot of things around us. Your thoughts aren’t decipherable at the moment.” He speaks fast, moving around the cockpit as he sets things up.

“The cities, the outskirts... Has it always been this decrepit?”

Dom glances out of the windows and back at the camera screens. “Ah,” he says softly, “You mean that.”

“Yeah.” Sai chokes the word out bitterly. “That.”

“Not always, but for a very long time. The end of the Psionic Wars left a lot of people without anything.”

“Then I guess I was one of the lucky ones...” She watches the scene for a while longer and closes her eyes to take a deep breath. Feeling sorry for herself and others isn’t going to help anything. They have several hours of preparation ahead of them before she has to kill the man trying to ruin the lives of millions of people within GNW.

If the dossier is correct, Franklin Jarvs is a character. Older, with an inherent affinity for metal, he’s been working on a type of grenade that will react with the adrium used throughout the city and cause it to explode on impact—with devastating range. He isn’t quite done with his invention, but it’s only a matter of time.

“Why the hell me?” Sai mutters to herself before turning around abruptly and glaring at Dom. “That’s a damn good question. You’re made to be the perfect assassin. Why aren’t we using you for this?”

Dom blinks at her and shimmers for a moment, allowing his real self to be visible in all its chameleon glory. He stops before Sai gets a headache. “You want me to try to kill someone who’s traveling around promoting a compound which reacts with adrium?”

Sai blushes and looks away.

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