The Academy: Book 3 by Leito Chad

Author:Leito, Chad [Leito, Chad]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

19

Stridor’s Insight

Asa and Stridor followed the David wearing a ninja costume across the lawn. Carlton backed away from them as they passed, frightened. He did not bark again.

Asa felt the mud sucking at his feet. He felt as though he were in a daze. He had been looking forward to this moment since the end of last semester, when the machine that imitated his father told him to seek out the Davids.

This meeting could be incredibly instrumental in helping us with the war against the Multipliers. I came here hoping that Noah could merely help us find Robert King—if we can make an ally of this David that would be more beneficial than any information we could gain.

Asa tried to remember all he had learned about Davids. They’re smart. Or, to be more specific, some people think that they’re smart. My father did. He thought that their intellectual abilities surpassed those of humans. Because Robert King keeps a pet David, it seems that he does, too. There are some, however, who disagree with the viewpoint that Davids are incredibly smart—such as Conway.

As Asa stepped up the creaking stairs, he felt giddy. He was looking forward to getting to make his own decision about the creatures.

He had had a few encounters with Davids before, but not enough to get a good impression of them. During the previous semester, he had found some of them tied up with their throats cut behind Mount Two. Though he hadn’t been able to talk with these, he had learned that they wore clothes. One of them had been wearing a tiara and lipstick. This showed that they had a human-like desire to be beautiful, as well as a human-like ability to find pretty things and use them to alter their appearance. Then Asa had come in contact with the Davids in the Arctic Forest in front of Fishie Mountain while on a run with his Winggame teammates. Those things (Asa was still having trouble with what to call them in his mind; they were chimps, but they were also mutated to be more human-like. He was following a David that was smarter than himself, and had done very human-like things such as put on clothes, live in a house, and had the ability to talk) had looked more like gorillas than chimps, and had given Asa a picture of his father. Then, there was Jaime, Robert King’s intelligent pet that spoke by using a strange machine-collar he wore around his neck.

As Asa thought about all of these examples, he looked at the form of the thing that was wearing the ninja costume. He’s walking on two legs, Asa thought. His eyebrows creased. He felt curious and anxious as he realized this. All of the other Davids that I’ve seen walk on four legs—or they at least are knuckle-walkers. Does this mean that Noah is not a David? Asa didn’t think so. No human is four and a half feet tall with hands as large as Stridor’s.

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