The Quest for the Kid by Adrienne Kress

Author:Adrienne Kress
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Of all the plans Sebastian had experienced on this journey; of all the plans made in mere moments and made on his own and made in a group; of all the plans that had involved playing in a K-pop band, and ejecting himself out of a plane, and sneaking into societies and freeing animals and climbing through volcanoes and so on; of all the plans he had experienced of late, none seemed quite as bizarre as the current one: going to the opera.

Opera didn’t intimidate Sebastian. His parents enjoyed it, and he’d heard many played for him at home. So it didn’t seem strange to him that going to the opera was a thing that people did. What seemed strange was how normal it was. There was no sneaking involved, no having to pretend to be an underage stunt-car driver, no climbing mountains. No. Instead the Kid had done a little investigating, and it turned out that the evening they arrived in town, there was going to be a performance of one of the operas Doris was working on.

The group didn’t really even need to see the opera at all. They could wait until it was over to speak with Doris. But Benedict had suggested that getting some seats might be nice. After all, they would have to spend the waiting time doing something, since their flight would arrive in the late afternoon, and Evie thought waiting in the audience and seeing the performance sounded cool. And so they all would head to the opera together as if on a lovely family outing. As if Sebastian wasn’t a bundle of nerves. As if, had the rental car guy not appeared when he had, he hadn’t been about to suggest to Evie that he go home and let her do the rest of the adventuring without him. Even though he was exhausted. Even though he didn’t think he could do any more.

Why was he still here? Why did he keep going?

He really hated this. He hated not understanding his brain anymore. He hated always feeling ill at ease. He hated all of it.

So why didn’t he just go home?

Because he’d hate that more?

He had no idea.

It was all too much, and he realized that he should go to sleep, let his brain think without him present, and maybe when he woke up, all his problems would be solved.

So with his usual efficiency, Sebastian leaned his head against the cool airplane window, instinctively pulled Orson in close, and fell asleep.

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