Ida by Alison Evans

Author:Alison Evans [Evans, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, queer, YA, young adult, genderqueer, SCIENCE FICTION, speculative
ISBN: 9781760404390
Publisher: Echo Publishing
Published: 2016-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

The space Damaris inhabits is cold, freezing cold. If she could breathe in here, she knows her breath would be fog. She wades about in the non-matter, her arms are free to move them as she likes.

She waits and waits and eventually she knows where she has to go. It is not warmth, she has not felt the warmth in a long time. It is cold, so far from home.

She appears in front of Adrastos’s desk. He jumps, papers scatter everywhere and he leaps from his chair. His terror is rapidly replaced by annoyance.

‘Damaris,’ he snaps. ‘What the hell do you think you’re doing?’

‘The other Idas know.’

‘Idas?’ he repeats. ‘What?’

‘The girl I’m tracking. Ida! Her other selves know.’

‘Well, some of them would have to.’ He picks up the papers that have scattered. His nail polish has changed to a dark, forest green that matches his tie.

‘This one was far off from the one that I’m trying to find. Adrastos, she’d been kicked out before. She knew who I was, too.’

‘What? What did you tell her?’ he frowns and stops replacing his scattered belongings onto his desk. He smoothes out his hair. ‘You didn’t tell her who you were?’

‘Of course I didn’t,’ Damaris says, unable to resist rolling her eyes.

‘How did the right one get away?’

‘I …’ Damaris looks away from Adrastos for a split second. ‘I scared her off.’

Adrastos looks at her. ‘You what? Damaris, I could forgive a rookie for that.’

‘I haven’t done this in a long time,’ Damaris says. ‘And she’s so flighty, she skips more than five times a day. She’s so used to it she doesn’t even have to try. She barely even has to blink and she’s replaced herself somewhere else.’

Adrastos sits still for a moment, then motions for Damaris to sit opposite him. She doesn’t.

‘I can’t do anything about it,’ Adrastos says. ‘I want to help, but I can’t. We have to get this done.’

‘It’s almost impossible to find the right one!’ Damaris says. ‘How am I supposed to do this without help?’

‘You did find her, though.’

‘But again?’ She runs a hand through her hair, it needs a wash.

‘You’re the best hope we have of finding her.’

She sighs and knows he is right. ‘I’ll be back.’ She gives him no time to respond.

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