Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

Author:Jennifer Bosworth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781446453483
Publisher: RHCP Digital
Published: 2012-05-01T20:47:07+00:00

23

I WAS ABOUT to be murdered by gravity, but time slowed enough for me to feel a world of regret for the things I had done wrong, all the bad choices I’d made, the people I’d hurt.

Maybe it was better this way. Easier for everyone if I disappeared into darkness. At least then I wouldn’t do the terrible thing Jeremy claimed I was going to do.

My heart and my stomach stayed where they were as the rest of my body began the plummet.

“Mia!”

Katrina grabbed me and yanked me back from the brink of the chasm. She was a lot stronger than she looked. She threw me like I was stuffed with cotton, and I ended up on my butt on a pile of rubble five feet away.

I tried to catch my breath, but my heart seemed to explode every time it beat, eating up all my oxygen.

Katrina was breathing hard, as well. “You’ve got to watch where you’re going! Some of these rifts go down for hundreds of feet! You could have gotten yourself killed!”

“Yeah. Yeah, okay. Thanks. Really.” I stood to brush the powdering of cement and glass dust off my pants. I couldn’t look at Katrina as I said again, “Thank you.”

“Just … try to be more careful from now on, okay? We can’t afford to lose you.” She reached down to help me up.

Don’t go to the Waste, Jeremy said in my mind, while the image of me falling, falling, falling into the chasm rode past on a carousel.

Together, Katrina and I approached the edge of the chasm and peered down into its black, fathomless depths. Katrina picked up a fist-sized piece of broken concrete and dropped it into the crack. We listened. And listened.

We didn’t hear it hit the bottom.

My legs were shaky as we navigated our way around the chasm and started up Fifth Street again. Both of us kept our eyes glued to the ground until I asked once more where we were going. Where the Rove had taken up residence for the night.

Katrina pointed. My eyes followed the path of her finger.

She was pointing at the Tower.

Of course she was.

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