The Star Thief by Jamie Grey

Author:Jamie Grey [Grey, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

Finn and Renna snuck down the dune toward the building. As they got closer, the building seemed to tower over them, at least two stories high. It was a lot bigger than it had looked from a distance, and the closer they got, the more the strange material threw her off.

She rubbed at the prickling skin on her arms. “Do you feel that?”

Finn pulled his gun from its holster. “What the hell is it?”

“Some kind of force field. I think they’re blocking all communication in and out of the place. Probably why my implant isn’t working.” But there was something else there, too, just below the low hum. Something simmering at the edges of her mind.

They crept toward the building. Finn scanned the area, his gun at the ready, while Renna studied the structure in front of her. She scooped up a handful of cold sand and let some of it stream between her fingers. Then she threw the fistful at the side of the building.

Nothing happened. The sand slid off the strange material as if it was perfectly smooth. Not even a grain left behind.

“What do you think it is?” Finn asked, peering at the wall.

“I wish I knew. I’ve never seen anything like it before.” Whoever had built this facility had gone to a lot of trouble and expense to create this material. But why?

“We’re not going to figure out what’s going on by standing here. Are you ready?”

Renna moved closer to the building, trying to ignore the energy that cobwebbed against her skin. She pulled the particle destabilizer from her pack. The globe was smaller than her fist, and the silver metal seemed to move and shiver the closer it got to the building. She gripped it and twisted the top and the bottom away from each other, pulling it apart to reveal a core of glowing elemental antimatter.

“Here goes nothing.” She pressed it against the strange metal wall. Surges of electricity ran up and down her arm, and she forced herself not to jerk away.

“What’s wrong? Are you all right?” Finn moved closer, but she stopped him with the shake of her head.

Slowly, the point at which the device touched the wall started to glow blue, the light moving in circles from the center outward, growing larger by the moment.

“What is it doing?” Finn asked, peering over her shoulder.

“It’s agitating the molecules. Aldani said it could take up to three minutes to burn through, depending on the material.”

Finn’s lips tightened, but he simply nodded and glanced back toward the hill where Keva and Doyle were hiding.

The strange blue ring was almost as big as a plate now, and the energy shimmered just enough that she caught a glimpse of the facility beyond. “I think it’s working,” she said, leaning forward.

Finn’s presence was warm against her back as he moved to stare at the wall. His MYTH uniform was covered in a fine dusting of the sand, dulling the navy fabric. Her own clothes were probably covered in it, too.

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