The Last Star by Rick Yancey

Author:Rick Yancey [Yancey, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance
ISBN: 9780399162435
Amazon: B00S75OL5K
Goodreads: 16131489
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: 2016-05-24T05:00:00+00:00

47

THERE’S BEEN A SHITLOAD of huh? moments since the Others came, but this one has gotta be the huh-est of them all.

After the first go-around, I figure I must be missing something, so I ask Ringer to explain herself again, slower this time, with a little more detail and a lot more evidence.

“They aren’t here,” she says. “I’m not even sure they’re there.” With a nod toward the basement ceiling—and the unseen sky beyond.

“How could they not be there?” Ben wonders. There he goes again, deferring to her like the mealymouthiest courtier in Queen Ringer’s court. I’m starting to wonder about Ben’s ability to judge character. Since this war began, he’s been shot twice—both times by the person who claimed to be on his side.

“The mothership could be completely automated,” Ringer explains. “Obviously some form of sentient life built it, but the builders themselves could be light-years from here—or nowhere.”

“Nowhere?” Ben echoes.

“Dead. Extinct.”

“Sure, why not?” I’m fiddling with the bolt catch of my M16. Ben might still trust her after she lied about Teacup and where she was and what happened while she was there, plus her delivering an assassin to our doorstep, plus being shot by her, twice; I’m not so gobsmacked by her feminine charm, which, by the way, you could fit on the head of a pin and still leave room for angels to dance. “A couple thousand years ago, their probes find us. They watch. They wait. At some point they figure out we’re no good for the Earth or ourselves, so they build the mothership and load it down with bombs and drones and viral plague and proceed to wipe out ninety-nine point nine percent of the population with the help of human thralls who’ve been brainwashed since birth . . . because that’s our medicine, that’s what good for us—”

“Cassie,” Ben says. “Take a breath.”

“That’s one scenario,” Ringer says calmly. “Actually, it’s the best-case scenario.”

I shake my head and look over at Sam and Megan huddled under a big blanket in the corner. Incredibly, both have fallen asleep, their heads pressed together, Bear tucked beneath their chins, in a tableau that would be cute beyond words if it wasn’t so heartbreakingly symbolic of something. Well, of everything.

“Just like your Silencer theory,” I snap at her. “A computer program downloaded into fetuses that boots up when the kid hits puberty. A scenario.”

“No, that’s a fact. Vosch confirmed it.”

“Right. The maniac who orchestrated the murder of seven billion people. Well, sure, if he said it, then it must be true.”

“Why else would he want Walker so badly?”

“Oh, I don’t know. Maybe because Evan betrayed his entire civilization and is the one person on the planet who can stop them?”

Ringer is looking at me like I’m something disgusting she found growing on her toothbrush. “If that’s all there is to it, your boyfriend would be dead right now.”

“He could be dead right now. It kills me how you claim to know so much despite the fact that you don’t know much at all.

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