TRANSIENT: Book One: The addictive unputdownable read that's gripping readers by K.M. Hill

Author:K.M. Hill [Hill , K.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-25T05:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Nine

A third ‘shady’ silhouette popped up on the screen. Each of the three had a name under it, and the third name was Halldor.

“And finally Halldor, from Iceland. Are you there, Halldor?”

“I’m here.”

The accent was Nordic, though Rae would not have been able to tell what country Halldor was from if she didn’t know already. His voice was more high-pitched than she’d imagined. For some reason, she’d thought Halldor would have a deep voice and Benny a high voice, but in fact it was exactly the reverse.

“Okay, welcome everyone. Let’s start with Rae, since you’re here with us in the studio. First, would you say you’re the ringleader of this little group?”

Ringleader? It was a weird question, Rae thought. She chuckled nervously “We’re just friends.”

“And you met online, you say?”

“That’s right.”

“And is there one place that you all like to hang out?”

“What do you mean?”

“Like on social media or some kind of website?”

Rae promised Apollo she wouldn’t get specific about that. But she didn’t want to lie. “We hang out in different places.”

It wasn’t exactly a lie, because the forum had a bunch of rooms to it, and there was a chatroom, but for all Rae knew they belonged to the same server and certainly the same system, so it wasn’t actually that truthful and she didn’t feel like she was fooling anyone.

I’m a terrible liar.

But Samantha seemed to take that at face value, and moved on. “So you’re all transients, but not just that - seems you’re all scheduled to die on the very same day.”

Everyone chimed in with agreement. That was one of the things they all wanted to stress today, how the cryptograph was full of odd coincidences and things that just didn’t make sense when you started to think about them closely, or talk them over.

“That’s quite a coincidence, isn’t it?” Samantha commented.

“We all thought it was really curious at first, that we would all die on the same day,” said Danielle, “but now it’s okay, almost cool.”

“Yeah,” Halldor agreed. “It’s what brought us together and now we’re friends, so even though it’s weird, it’s okay.”

Samantha nodded, picking up the point. “Almost a blessing then, wouldn’t you say, Rae?”

“As much as early death can be a blessing.” That sounded too harsh she realized, but then pressed on. “But it really got us thinking about the test. How is it possible that we would all die on the same day? Maybe there’s some connection between us, something we haven’t seen yet.”

“But lots of people die every day,” Samantha pointed out.

“Yes, but we’re all Transient and besides us, we also know of many others scheduled to die on the same day too. And maybe a lot more we don’t know about.”

“And you find that odd?” Samantha asked.

“Don’t you?”

The news lady paused, then jumped into the silence. “No, not particularly. You’re from all around the world. How many people from all around the world are going to die today, for example? More than a few hundred I’m sure, given the latest population count.

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