Redeemer by Katie Clark

Author:Katie Clark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian Fiction
ISBN: 9781611164152
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Published: 2014-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

19

Tense whispers wake me the next morning. The men huddle at the windows, looking down at whatever has them riled up.

I scramble from my place and hurry to join them. The sun is just peeking over the horizon, and Isabel is nowhere to be seen—but that’s not unusual. She takes a few minutes for herself every morning.

At the window, I look down to see what the men are gaping at. Far below us, on the ground level, Isabel stands with three other figures.

“Who are they?” The words slip out before I can stop them.

Everyone looks to me, but no one answers. Finally, Keegan takes pity. “We don’t know. Your friend Isabel had already gone out when we spotted them coming toward the building. Isabel intercepted them and they’ve been down there ever since.”

If some random stragglers can find us than anyone can find us. This isn’t good. I watch them and a few things stand out to me. “They’re Middles!”

Guard Rok nods fiercely. “It looks like they must have come out of the city, but with the drains being monitored, we’re not sure how they got out.”

But they did get out. This is good; it means Keegan can most likely get back in. I check his face to see if he’s realized this, but he seems unconcerned with being stuck outside the city. Movement below draws our gazes down. Isabel is bringing the newcomers inside.

“Ignorant Lesser!” Les hisses.

“Ignorant? You are the ignorant one. Isabel was born Greater.”

That shuts him up fast.

None of us waits for her to reach the eighteenth floor with the visitors. We end up meeting at floor ten in the stairwell.

“Who are you?” Guard Rok demands.

Three Middles glance at each other—two guys and a girl. One of the boys steps forward. “We heard about rebels in the area and we wanted to join the resistance.”

“There is no resistance,” Les says quickly. “Go home.”

The boy shakes his head and looks to Keegan. “We’re in the same dorm. We’re training for government. We heard about the message Lilith Winters gave you, so we followed you. We saw you being chased by the guards, so Mitty snuck out through a hole in the fences near her house. She saw you come here, then she came back to get us.”

It was exactly how Lilith feared it would be. News of her involvement was spreading fast. She would rat us out in a heartbeat—she’d warned me many times. My eyes meet Keegan’s, but no emotion shows. Is he worried about Lilith? Does he care about her?

The boy on campus said she was his girl.

My stomach flip flops and I turn the emotion off.

“What kind of resistance do you think you’d be joining?” I ask. Everyone in my groups looks to me like I’ve lost my mind. Everyone except Fischer.

But we are a resistance. What else are we doing here?

The boy’s hopeless face changes, and he steps toward me. “We’re ready to fight the Greaters. There are a lot of us. In training they’ve started changing our lessons.

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