The Arctic Code by Matthew J. Kirby

Author:Matthew J. Kirby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

14

ELEANOR BLINKED AND SQUINTED, BUT THE HARDER SHE strained to see them, the more the figures eluded her, until she finally had to admit they were gone, and might never have been there in the first place, a projection of her own imagination onto the void. She wanted to believe that was the explanation, rather than ghost wolves, but couldn’t convince herself of it enough to fall asleep. She lay there in her bed, in her narrow room, inside a sphere as inconsequential as a marble tossed into a snowbank.

She kept replaying the night’s previous conversations in her mind, treating each piece of information as the part of a larger whole, studying each of them, rotating each of them, trying to fit them all together. Before long, she felt that she had assembled them into something that made at least a little sense.

The best theory that she could come up with was that her mother had recently discovered an energy source, a telluric energy source, and the G.E.T. had come in with their crazy Arctic station and basically taken over. Eleanor’s mom and Dr. Powers had then gone out onto the ice sheet, perhaps to do more research, and something had happened. What it was Eleanor didn’t know, but what she did know was that whatever her mother found, she had decided to send it to Eleanor to keep it secret and safe. Then she and Dr. Powers had vanished.

Assuming that was all true, Eleanor still needed more information. There were too many gaps and unanswered questions, like the meaning of those files her mom had sent, and that number code. Could they hold the key to finding Mom, as the G.E.T. seemed to think? If so, Eleanor’s best chance at finding some of those answers might be her mother’s laptop. If she could just get a look at it.

It had been a few hours since she’d gone to bed. The rest of Polaris Station would likely be asleep. If she had any chance of getting a look at the computer unobserved, it was now. She could sneak over to the command module, dig around through the laptop, and put it back before anyone noticed.

Eleanor climbed out of bed and opened the door to her room. The pod had apparently gone into some kind of power save. It was cold enough in the common areas for her breath to become a wisp, and most of the lights were out, rendering the station a dark and frightening maze.

She went barefoot to the tunnel connecting her pod to the command module and paused outside it. A hatch had closed over it, sealing it off. Eleanor found a handle and turned it with a bit of difficulty. The hatch opened with a clunk. Inside, the tunnel to the next pod had become a black cave, and even though she knew what lay on the other side, she hesitated before climbing in. After she’d gone a few feet, she heard the hatch swing shut behind her automatically, sealing her in darkness.

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