Hades Rising by Aden Polydoros

Author:Aden Polydoros [Polydoros, Aden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Goodreads: 40530685
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Published: 2018-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Case Notes 6: Subject Nine of Subset A

When Nine returned to Subset A’s female barracks, Two was nowhere in sight. Trembling with anxious excitement, she went to the mess hall. She hoped that she would find him eating lunch at one of the tables, not handcuffed to the punishment pole for sneaking into the girls’ barracks.

After milling around the mess hall for five minutes, she decided that he wasn’t there. Maybe he had been taken to the sickbay or was resting in his own barracks.

When she ducked her head through the infirmary’s door, the only person she encountered was her bunkmate, Subject Seven of Subset A, groaning on one of the cots.

“Nine, what are you doing here?” Seven asked, regarding her through bleary eyes. Sweat plastered her squirrely brown hair to the sides of her face.

“Are you okay?”

“I’ll live,” the other girl said in a throaty mumble, wrapping her arms around her belly.

“Hey, did you see if Two was brought in here?”

“Two?” Seven blinked. “No, I don’t think so. Is he okay? Did something happen?”

An idea suddenly occurred to her. Seven was a mil like Two and played on his team during wargames. She would have also seen the videos that he had talked about.

“He’s fine, but can I ask you a question?” Nine asked.

“Okay,” Seven said, sitting up with some difficulty.

“Can you tell me about the movies you guys watch?”

A flicker of surprise touched the other girl’s face, but then her expression quickly evolved into one of caution. “I’m not allowed to talk about those outside of class. Why do you ask? Did he say something about them?”

“No, it’s just that I’m worried about him. He’s changed lately. He’s gotten kind of quiet, you know?”

Seven didn’t answer, just grabbed a fistful of tissues from the box next to her and coughed into them. Through her curtain of sweaty hair, her hazel eyes flickered past Nine to the open door.

“These videos, are they—”

“They’re training videos,” Seven said thickly, blowing her runny nose into the tissues. She sniffled a bit and rubbed her irritated eyes with the back of her hand. “Just training videos to show us how to be soldiers. Don’t worry about Two. He’ll make a good leader. I think he’s still upset about D-12’s death, and that’s why he’s been acting weird, but he’ll get through it.”

Nine bit her lip, contemplating whether she should tell Seven that she was leaving soon or grill her for more information.

That could wait. Right now, she needed to find Two so she could tell him the good news. It didn’t matter about the videos, because if everything went as planned, he would leave with her, too. She had already asked Senator Hawthorne if Two might be able to come along, and while his answer had been vague—“we’ll see” and then a curious glance toward the Leader—she was certain she could convince her new family to take him in.

While she hadn’t been told how exactly she would be integrated into the Hawthorne household, she had watched movies about orphans and foster-children in her American society class.

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