Deep Magic - Second Collection by VA

Author:VA [VA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amberlin
Published: 2018-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

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“Did you hear what Bodi discovered?” my dad half shouted as he came into the kitchen.

My spoon clattered to the table. “What?”

“I just spoke with his father. The quake opened a new chamber, and Bodi, brave bugger, went in and discovered the most complex lifeform we’ve found yet . . . are you all right?”

I was already walking to the bathroom. “I feel sick,” I said, and that was not a lie.

After jettisoning my breakfast, I went to Bodi’s family’s unit. His mother greeted me at the door.

“Hi, Mrs. Watson. I need to speak to Bodi.”

“Seems everyone does today,” she said, a proud smile stretching across her face. “He’s with the biologists, showing them his discovery.”

I ran to the cavern of the hanging trees. The biologists had worked quickly—they’d already printed and assembled a ladder to the hole in the wall. I climbed it, and when I looked inside the tunnel, I could see straight through the path they’d cleared. At the end, wearing a respirator, was a biologist setting up an airlock. And with him, Bodi.

The moment he saw me, he turned and disappeared into the cavern.

“Bodi!” I ran through the tunnel after him.

The biologist blocked my way. “Sorry, miss, but we’re sealing off this chamber.”

“What about him!”

“Bodi Watson? He made the find.”

“I made the find with him!”

He patted my head. “Nice try, miss.”

I slapped his hand away. “Really! I know what they look like—they’re upside-down trees, and they glow, and—”

The man laughed. “By now everyone knows what they look like. Sorry, miss, but I really need you to step back so we can seal it off. The hydrogen sulfide level is high in here, and we don’t want to contaminate things any further.”

This was not how things were supposed to be. Everything was upside down. Upside down. From then on, whenever I said those two words, some of their letters would jump around to make another.

Wounded.

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