OtherEarth by Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller

Author:Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2018-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

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I get to the end of the tunnel and step outside into the icy air. It takes me a moment to realize I’m the only one here. Probo and Ita are nowhere to be seen. I’m about to complain that our guards have abandoned us when Kat reaches out for my arm and drags me back inside the cave. I see she has a finger pressed to her lips. Crouched down low, Fons shuffles past us and examines the footprints in the snow outside. When he stands up, he points at me. “Come,” he says softly. Kat and I both start to follow him. “You stay here,” Fons orders her.

“Screw you,” Kat says. “I go where he goes. You think ’cause I’m female I can’t take care of myself?”

“Of course not,” Fons says as though nothing she just said made any sense. “I chose him because he’s the annoying one. If anything happens, I’d rather he died.”

“Yeah well, I’m not gonna let that happen either.” Kat pulls her hood up and disappears from view. Before I lose sight of her, she looks almost amused.

I bend down and take a moment to study the footprints in the snow. Probo and Ita took off to the right. They seemed to be moving fast, but if they were running away they chose the most difficult route. The path they took is all uphill. If I had to guess, I’d say they were running toward something.

Fons takes the lead as the three of us head in the same direction as the missing Children. Soon, I hear male voices in the distance.

“You get a great trophy, and I get third-degree burns. How the hell is that fair?”

“Quit bitching. I told you to turn down the sensitivity on the haptic response gloves. Those things can scald the hell out of you.”

“Yeah, but what’s the point of doing this if you can’t feel the hot blood? By the way, d’you see how that thing turned bright red when I grabbed it?”

“What’d I say? The real fighters are still out in the wild. All those ones back in Karamojo are just the ones that gave up.”

I can see them now. Two burly men dressed in arctic camo. They’ve both got assault rifles. Where are they getting this stuff? Nothing like that was available when I got to choose my weapon.

My vision blurs and my brain is boiling as the rage fills me. My mind no longer functioning, I race forward across the ice, my dagger in hand. I’m on the two avatars before they even know I’m coming. I slit the first one’s throat with a single slice. The avatar flashes, and I immediately slam my dagger between its ribs. He must have lost one life already, because the second time he flashes, he disappears. His friend has had just enough time to jump to his feet. He has a gun aimed at my temple when one of Kat’s arrows gets him right between the eyes.

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