Skylight (Arcadium, #2) by Sarah Gray

Author:Sarah Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: adventure, zombies, journey, young adult, teen, australia, ya, virus, melbourne

The female showers are right next to the male ones. I can hear the water running behind the door on the left, and maybe Trouble humming a tune. I push through the door on the right, and thankfully the room is empty.

It’s surprisingly well equipped with all kinds of mismatched towels piled on a shelf. All the used ones are in big laundry trolley, which I peer into, because I don’t think I’ll ever trust that anyplace is safe again, and it’s big enough for an infected to hide in. The three showers are converted toilet stalls, minus the toilets and plus a network of hoses held with clamps against the black tiled wall. There’s a central drain in the middle of the floor and it’s the water’s only escape route so the floor is glistening and soaked. The air smells damp but there’s no mould growing anywhere. I grab a towel, peel my sweaty clothes off and hang them on the back of a stall door.

The water is warm and pleasant on my skin. I let my hair down and soak it slowly, rolling my neck from side to side, breathing in the quiet. I don’t really care what the next week or two brings. I want revenge, but how can you bring down a place like this, where people are surviving. How can you kill something like an invisible virus? How can I possibly make any difference to the world? I’m almost more frustrated in the fact that I thought I was capable of avenging Liss. Sometimes I burn with rage and sometimes I’m just heavy and suffocated, like I could just lie down and never get up again. The feelings come in waves, ever changing.

I finish up smelling like warm vanilla soap and extract of mint shampoo. I towel dry my hair slowly in the locked stall, watching the shampoo bubbles float away under the door. This would be the most perfect time for a bunch of infected to raid the centre and for me to be caught completely unawares in the bathroom.

I dress in my new clothes and look at my reflection in the sink mirror.

I don’t look at myself in terms of how pretty I look or how plain I might feel anymore. I look at how strong my eyes are. I check that I’m still hiding the horror of killing infected human beings well enough. My surface is just a surface; it’s what’s underneath that I worry about now. I search my face for the humanity I’m afraid I’ll lose after being beaten down so much, but I don’t know what it looks like.

A woman enters the shower room suddenly. I jump, totally startled.

Jessie smiles sharply, like she’s surprised too.

“Sorry,” she says. “Just came to make sure there was enough soap in here.”

“It’s okay,” I say.

After Jessie checks the soap pumps in the shower stalls, she comes out rubbing one of her eyes.

“Stupid contacts,” she says, pulling a bottle of eye drops from her holster and administering a few drops.

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