The Remedy Files: Illusion by Lauren Eckhardt

Author:Lauren Eckhardt [Eckhardt, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-07T06:00:00+00:00

PART II

CHAPTER 18

My eyes flutter open. Orange, yellow and red circles swirl all around. A cast of light is filtering through the dark sky. Everything is blurry. I can’t make out any of the shapes. There is a loud ringing sound in my ears. It amplifies in noise, fades, and repeats the cycle over and over again. I cover them in desperation to try to block out the clamor but am only successful in slightly muffling it.

From the corner of my eye, I can see the blinking of my wrist monitor. I pull one hand off my ear to look at it. That’s where the noise is coming from. The light is yellow. I need Remedy immediately.

My knees are to my chest and I can feel a cold, flat surface beneath me. I stretch out my legs and my feet bang on a hard wall as a momentous sharp pain shoots throughout my body. “Owww!” I try to yell out but my throat is purely raw as though sandpaper was relentlessly scrubbed against it. I let out a whimper instead and pull my knees back in.

My head is… throbbing. That has to be the right term. This is just how Gavin described it. I feel like there is a blacksmith in my head pounding away at a sheet of metal.

Wait—feel. I feel…

I jump up to my feet. “Owwww!” Bending at the waist, I try to lean over in time as vomit falls from my mouth to the ground. Quick movements are not a wise decision right now. Every single part of me aches. I straighten up again, wiping my mouth with my arm, despite my body screaming at me to curl back up on the ground. I take a step to the right- bang! My toe hits a flat vertical surface and immediately heat surges through my body and I think the vomit is rising again. What may have been a minor bump feels as though I kicked the side of a steel train as the pain shoots up through my knee, making each nerve vibrate in reaction.

I reach out my hands and feel another cold surface- similar to what I was just laying on. Using my hands only as a guide, I feel my way in a circle, then once again just to make sure I did not miss anything. All around me are flat surfaces. It’s like I’m in a box.

I blink several times and rub my eyes with my hands, desperately trying to see anything at all. As the shapes in the distance begin to come into focus, I recognize that I’m in the middle of Road D. Up ahead slightly to my left is the Levels 5-9 Home and to my right is the Levels 14-17 Home. I turn around and see the maintenance building to one side and one of the steel sheds to the other side. The only light is coming from the Lightstones and no one is around. It must be Sleeping Hours right now.

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