Healer by Kay L. Moody

Author:Kay L. Moody
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic dystopian, dystopian ya, young adult dystopian novels, dystopian stories, teen dystopian novels, dystopian fantasy, young adult science fiction, dystopian future, ya adventure books, ya books with strong female leads, futuristic science fiction, female protagonist, dystopian young adult books, young adult sci fi, ya dystopian novels
Publisher: Marten Press
Published: 2019-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-THREE

ABE SCROLLED THROUGH THE NAIROBI POLICE directory while Husani and Keiko bickered over possible locations for the taggers’ base. The directory only listed one Safiya with an O last name. That had to be her.

He stared at his hologram screen, ready to call. He blinked and stood up instead. “I’m going to the other room,” he announced. “You two are distracting me.”

“Keiko’s hair is distracting me,” Husani said. “It’s too shiny; it’s making me lose focus.”

Keiko flashed her teeth at him. “Don’t be stupid, Husani. This is important. Do you have any idea what my mother could be doing to Imara right now?”

Abe curled his hand into a fist as he slammed the door behind him. That was one thought he didn’t want running rampant through his mind. He called Safiya and raised his eyebrows when she answered right away.

Before he could open his mouth, she was already speaking. She glanced over her shoulder and said, “They deleted the file, but I have a backup at...” Her head rounded back, and she saw Abe’s face for the first time. “Who are you?” she demanded.

“Uh,” he asked, “Why did you answer without looking at my picture?”

She grunted and looked over her shoulder again. “I was expecting a call from someone else. It doesn’t matter. I have to go.”

Before she could turn off her ring, she ducked, and two gray blurs flew over her head. It took a moment before he realized they were bullets.

Safiya’s face popped back into view, and she aimed a gun before shooting it twice. She seemed to have completely forgotten about the phone call.

“I’m Imara’s boyfriend. Imara Kalu,” he said, trying to divert her attention back where he wanted it.

The police woman narrowed her eyes and jumped up to smash a fist across a man’s face. Abe noted, with no time to interpret the information, that the man wore the exact same police uniform as Safiya. “Congratulations,” she said. “As you can see I’m a little busy.” She ignored her hologram screen completely as she threw another fist at the man.

Abe thought it strange she hadn’t ended the call already, but with her mind on the fight, she probably didn’t have a spare moment to turn off her ring. Once Safiya was a safe distance from the uniformed man, Abe said, “Imara’s been kidnapped.”

A broken drone hurtled over the woman’s head, and a cold fear started crawling up his arms. What if she couldn’t help them?

Safiya grabbed a nearby ladder. As she climbed, she said, “Kidnapped? Do those Kalu girls have a thing for being kidnapped, or what?”

“She’s in trouble. I know she’s been helping you. We hoped you could get the Kenyan police to rescue her and maybe help us with some other issues while you’re here. We have a lot of corruption in our police force right now.”

She snorted at that. “There’s the understatement of the century.” She dodged another bullet and pulled herself to the top of a roof. “Unfortunately, my own police department is facing corruption as well.

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