Starless Night by Stephanie Flint & Isaac Flint

Author:Stephanie Flint & Isaac Flint
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dystopian, rebellion, conspiracy, superhero, telepathy, mind control, young adult dystopia, dystopian thriller, dystopian adventure, powers, superpowers, elemental, government control, elemental plant magic, monsters, dystopia, utopia, adventure, action, betrayal, power struggle
Publisher: Infinitas Publishing
Published: 2021-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY

The next couple of days dragged on, with me attempting to make a solitary morning run to the kitchen in an attempt to find coffee, only to have a sleepy Lily grab the tail of my shirt and yank me back into bed. I was fairly certain she mumbled, “Too early,” but it was hard to tell with her face half-buried in her pillow.

She didn’t get much more sleep, though, because Mom surprised us with breakfast at zero six hundred hours. Since the various shielding projects were ramping up with the knowledge we’d gained from St. Petersburg, she needed to be in a meeting by zero seven hundred... and Little Beastie needed someone to stay with during the day, so as not to make a mess of Mom’s notes.

That job fell to me and whoever was watching me, primarily Lily. It would have been nice if we were hanging out because we wanted to, not because she had been ordered to, but she had plenty of private eye shows to keep us occupied and had no problem following me into the garden. Having her there might have been for the better, because after the first afternoon of gardening with the shield and attempting to remove blackberries without my powers, the brain seed had attempted to bury the bear in the compost during a particularly grumpy but otherwise harmless episode. Apparently, I was too inefficient for my own good.

But Lily dug up the bear while I was in the shower, cleaned off most of the stains, and flung it at me when I griped at her later that night, that the only reason she had been assigned to watch me instead of helping Jordaan out with something more useful, was that Lily’s skills as a private eye had proved useless to their investigation.

Her aim was far better than the brain seed expected, as the bear struck me in the face. The brain seed version of me had shrieked and scrambled away, pressed into the corner between the wall and the bed while cursing the bear’s existence.

Then the seed went quiet.

I was me again.

I’d stared at Lily, confused as she burst out laughing, in part because Little Beastie was giving me the nastiest glare for waking her slumber.

Lily promised to hold on to the bear keychain in case she needed to use it as a repellant again. The brain seed left me alone for the rest of the night, apart from an indignant sense that it would find a more permanent way to remove the bear the first chance it got.

I had no problem telling Jack about the bear incident later, which got a much-needed laugh from him. He surprised me the next afternoon with a plush white teddy bear.

The brain seed was not amused.

Seemed like it almost hated this one more... and refused to speak on the matter.

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