Destroyed by Madeline Dyer

Author:Madeline Dyer [Dyer, Madeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ineja Press

We sleep. I don’t know why we sleep. But we do. In the shelter. The spirits—they must have something to do with it. They make us sleep, and, when we wake, all of us together, it is calm. The storm has gone.

“Is this really safe? This town?” Corin asks, rubbing his eyes.

I nod slowly before I realize I’m nodding.

It doesn’t look much like a town. Not an Enhanced town. Most of it is in ruins. Stones scattered, walls fallen, wooden paneling broken. I look around for the bison, but I know he’s gone now.

“It has to have been abandoned for a long time,” one of the reindeer herders says. “Just left to go to ruin.”

“And now it’s even more ruined,” Quinn says, wrinkling her nose. Her face is tear-stained, and her eyes are bloodshot. She sees me looking and scowls, turns away.

I look at the others. Esther’s face is screwed tight with pain. Still no baby.

I rub the back of my head, look for Taras. It takes me a moment to find him. He’s sitting up, grimacing. He looks even older, like he’s impossibly old now.

I cross over to him. His eyes look red, but when he sees me, they darken.

“Viktoriya’s dead. I can feel it.”

Dead.

Next to him, Marina stills until she’s like a statue, frozen. I stare at Taras, at the dimness in his eyes, like someone’s placed a film over them.

“No, she’s not.” I shake my head, as if it will make it true. But she has to still be alive, doesn’t she? “We will find her. Come on, we need to start searching. If we split up again, we can cover more ground quickly.”

The others start to stand up, apart from Esther and Taras. Corin moves to my side.

“Hey, do we still exist before?” Elf asks. “A week ago… That’s when we were with the Stone Seers. Is that all happening now too?”

Taras turns his head. His right hand is against his leg, and I watch as it shakes. “There may be two of each of us in this world at this current point.”

My eyes widen. “We’re still with the Stone Seers? They’re still alive?” I haven’t killed them. Not yet. My head spins, feels horrible. I wipe my sweaty palms on my jeans.

Siora looks at me, and she touches the base of her neck. No, not her neck. Jewelry of some sort. I can see the beads. Black beads. “You can’t change that though.” She glances at Quinn. “Our mother knows a lot about time-manipulation Seer powers, and she warned that the past must not be changed or interfered with, even when timelines are folding. She said if you see yourself, your first self would act differently and the future would change, potentially rewriting your current existence. The past has to stay the same. You have to carry on as if time isn’t folding.”

“Of course,” Taras says. He stands up, with help from Elf and Marina. “Time is a fragile thing. It may be that any

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