Evolution by B. T. Wright & Jonathan Dudycha

Author:B. T. Wright & Jonathan Dudycha [Wright, B. T. & Dudycha, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781079704419
Published: 2019-08-11T22:00:00+00:00

22

Emily could feel some sort of vibration affecting her body. But it was dark—zero light whatsoever. Where was she? Where could she have gone that was completely pitch black?

Emily felt the vibration again. A low rumble beneath her arms. Why only beneath her arms?

“Where am I? What’s going on?”

Emily wondered if she’d heard that correctly. It was extremely muffled. It sounded like a woman’s voice but like it was coming from the bottom of a well. Then the vibrating returned, only this time it was even stronger.

“Help me!”

Emily’s eyes shot open and she raised her head. She stared at Karen, the infected woman—alien—that she had injected with Beritrix some time ago. Karen was thrashing inside of her restraints. Emily had fallen asleep with her head resting on her hands at the foot of Karen’s gurney.

Then it registered that no one else was in the room, but she swore she had heard a woman’s voice.

Karen’s voice?

Emily jumped to her feet just as Karen shouted “help me, please!” and hovered over her. Emily was in shock, or maybe she was still dreaming. Nothing about what she was experiencing made sense. Karen’s skin wasn’t nearly as gray as it had been, and the black of her eyes had gone covering her eyeballs entirely to only the outer edges of the white sclera. It had to be a dream.

“Don’t just stand there staring at me! Get me out of here!” Karen shouted.

Out of instinct, or just complete fear, Emily took a step back. “How—How are you able to talk?”

“What am I doing here? Who are you?” Tears were building in Karen’s eyes. She looked . . . human.

Emily had no idea what to do. Her mind wanted to ask questions, but her body was paralyzed. Was this because of the Beritrix?

“Why aren’t you unstrapping me from this bed? What is wrong with you?”

Karen truly had no idea what was going on.

“You—You don’t remember? You really don’t know how you got here?”

Karen looked around the room as a tear fell from her eye. She took a deep breath. “What the hell is going on? Who is that man?”

Karen was referring to John Two, who as of yet was still lying on his bed staring blankly at the ceiling.

“Karen, I am Doctor Emily Fraser. If you take just a second and calm down, I promise I can explain everything. Okay?”

“Undo these straps.”

“I can’t do that. Not yet.”

“Undo the straps!” Karen shouted as she thrashed around, desperately trying to get free.

Emily couldn’t believe what she was seeing. This woman was an entirely different being now than she was—Emily checked her watch—three hours ago. Karen was lucid, she was communicating, but she didn’t seem to know anything about how she got there and why.

“Please, Karen, just let me explain.”

Karen fought against her restraints one last time before sighing a breath of surrender. “Just tell me what’s going on.”

“What is the last thing you remember?” Emily said.

“I—I was getting ready to check out at the grocery store. What happened? Did I have a heart-attack or something?”

“No .

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