Ryan Quinn and the Rebel's Escape by Ron McGee

Author:Ron McGee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

NO WAY OUT

CHAPTER

31

MOUNT BANA,

ANDAKAR

Lan never intended to become a rebel.

Two years ago, she was just a normal schoolgirl. Well, maybe not normal exactly. Lan’s life in Andakar was more comfortable than most kids. She knew that now.

Lan’s father was a lawyer with the Ministry of Justice, which meant the family was part of the government’s inner circle. That came with a lot of perks: a nice house, plenty to eat, and people to help with the cooking and cleaning. She had good friends and went to a school that was only for the children of Andakar’s government workers. If it weren’t for her father, Lan would never have even questioned how easy they had it.

But Lan’s dad didn’t allow her to simply accept the comfortable life they led. He worked inside the system, but insisted it was only so that he could help change it. He represented the citizens of Andakar in the government’s courts where they didn’t stand a chance of being treated fairly. Lan’s father would fight for them even though he knew it was usually pointless. Occasionally, he would win some small victory. On those rare days, he would be filled with passion, insisting that change would come to Andakar, but that it moved as slowly as the sluggish Chin Yon River.

Back then, Lan was impatient with her father’s lectures. She was fourteen—she was interested in her friends and music and boys. What happened outside her comfortable world didn’t seem to matter that much.

But everything changed after the car crash.

A freak accident, they told her. Both her parents killed instantly. She could barely function. Nothing made sense.

And then her uncle showed up. Aung Win was her father’s brother, but the two had grown distant. Lan had not even seen him in over a year. She had always been a little afraid of her uncle. He watched everything with suspicion and disapproval. She didn’t know much about him, really. Only that he was high up in the government and had no other family. He disagreed strongly with her father’s belief that the people of Andakar should be given more freedom and real justice. The brothers argued about it whenever they were together.

When Aung Win told her that she would be coming to live with him in Panai, she didn’t understand at first. She wouldn’t leave her friends, her school, everything she’d ever known. Her uncle tried to be comforting, but she could tell he was annoyed by her protests. In the end, she had no choice. It had already been decided. There was nothing she could do about it.

Lan soon learned that her uncle was a general with Andakar’s feared secret police, the Army Services Intelligence agency. Her new home was a penthouse on the top floor of the Kali Thawar Hotel. The old hotel was now ASI headquarters, its lower floors housing the strategic command center. The suites on the upper floors had been modernized and now provided luxurious apartments for the ASI’s top officers.

From the beginning, Lan and Aung Win had problems.

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