Rogue Touch by Woodward Christine

Author:Woodward, Christine [Woodward, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-Classifiable / Unassigned
ISBN: 9781401304997
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2013-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

To me Utah looked like another planet, with hoodoos and red clay, and towering rock formations everywhere. Even more than in Colorado, I felt like finally I was not just driving but traveling. Seeing the world. I’d never even imagined anything like this place in my whole life.

Touch had got very quiet. He just sat staring out the passenger window, his chin in his palm. I kept pointing out different rocks and colors and mountains in the distance, saying how pretty everything was. But he would just say, “Hmm,” or nod, like he wasn’t impressed at all. Or else like he had too much on his mind to appreciate even this scenery.

As for myself, I felt strangely cheerful. My shoulder didn’t hurt near as much as I expected it to, and it had stopped bleeding. That morning, Touch and I had both dug into Joe Wheeler’s clothing, so we looked a damn sight more normal than usual. Touch wore blue jeans and a plaid shirt under a thick wool sweater, plus a down vest. I had to stick to my leather jeans, but I wore one of Joe’s T-shirts and the jean jacket I’d taken, along with my white tea gloves, and a wool cap over a ponytail, making my hair a whole lot less conspicuous. As I drove and Touch stayed quiet, I thought on two different plans that fell into two different categories: Immediate and Planet Earth was one category; Future and Planet Touch was the other.

As for Immediate and Planet Earth, there were two big concerns: get me away from the law and get Touch to a place where he wouldn’t freeze to death come winter. So I was thinking Mexico. We were pretty much headed in that direction anyhow. I figured we didn’t need particular identification, because as far as I was concerned, we wouldn’t be coming back. Not ever. Of course this meant leaving behind everything in the world I’d ever known. Come to find out, this did not trouble me in the slightest.

When I thought about Future and Planet Touch, I found myself getting downright giddy. Because what news he’d given me last night! Not only was there a person just like me where he came from, there was a whole host of freakazoids that weren’t treated like freakazoids at all! They got to be part of the general population and work for Arcadia. They even had a special school! I loved that there was a world where such a thing existed—peace and simplicity and enough of everything for everyone—and that I could maybe be a part of it, not wicked and evil, like Aunt Carrie always said I’d turn out.

Touch hadn’t said it outright, what he planned on doing. Sometimes, when he talked about his son for instance, I’d get the impression that Touch planned on going home eventually. Other times it seemed like he wouldn’t go back, not ever. But now that I knew about what I’d be on his planet, “larger than life,” all I wanted to do was go.

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