Rebellion (2020 Edition) by Stephanie Diaz

Author:Stephanie Diaz [Diaz, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stonesong Digital
Published: 2020-05-21T06:00:00+00:00

16

The camp seems oddly quiet tonight. People aren’t even whispering; they’re sleeping, or staring at the walls with uncertain looks on their faces. In the Surface camp, if we’d heard that someone set off explosives in the quarantine facility, we would’ve cheered.

I can only assume the submission serum is the reason no one here seems to care. Their eyes don’t seem muddled or lifeless, like the eyes of most of the subdued I’ve seen, but there’s clearly something different about them. Maybe the effects are taking longer to set in, because there’s something different about the injections they were given.

In the shadows, I lean against the wall hugging my knees to my chest. It’s been hours since the explosion. I couldn’t stay near the building to watch the rescue teams, because of Sam, so I don’t know if they’re still trying to get people out. I don’t know where Hector or Evie or Arthur is. Hopefully not trapped in the facility—hopefully they’re somewhere in one of these crowded rooms. I haven’t exactly been looking for them. Chances are they were given the injection, so they’re probably silent like all the rest of these people. But Skylar’s right—there must be a few people in the camp, at least, whose bodies have rejected the serum. There must even be a few who didn’t get the shot at all, since the bomb went off in the middle of the inspections. If they aren’t subdued like all the others, they must be aware that something is wrong. Maybe they would believe me if I told them what I know. But how can I pick them out from all the rest?

If only Logan were here. Maybe he’d be subdued like everyone else, but at least he’d be with me. Most of the time, things make more sense with him around.

When we first arrived at the KIMO facility, he hardly left my side. We’d been apart for so long since I left for the Core—even when we were reunited, it was in the midst of a fight we almost didn’t survive—and both of us were afraid of losing each other again.

The first night in the compound, we’d been assigned separate bunk rooms, and I resigned myself to the fact that we’d have to spend our nights apart. But Logan had a different idea. He told me to wait until everyone else in my room was asleep, slip out of bed, and meet him in one of the training rooms. When I found him, he’d set up a makeshift bed with blankets on the floor mat, in a corner.

“I figured it’s still better than where we used to sleep, back in the camp,” Logan said with a sheepish smile.

“It’s perfect,” I said, dropping onto the mat and pulling one of the blankets over me. “Even if people can see us on the security cameras.”

“It’s dark. Anyway, I doubt the techs pay much attention during the night.”

“Hopefully not.”

Logan slid an arm around my waist. “I missed you,” he said softly.

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