Undiscovered by Jessica Brody

Author:Jessica Brody [Brody, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2014-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

14: Cut

I woke up in my bed feeling groggy. My vision was shrouded in an unsettling white mist. I sat up and took inventory of my memories. I fought to remember how I’d gotten there, what had happened the night before. And slowly, reassuringly, everything came back to me.

The failed escape plan. Seraphina’s face as they took her. My conversation with Rio. Even the needle piercing my skin, putting me to sleep.

They didn’t take it.

They didn’t take anything.

Although just the fact that I thought to check my own brain was proof enough. If they’d recoded my memories, I wouldn’t have had any inclination to verify that they were intact.

But still, I found it strange.

Why not recode me? Rio clearly didn’t want me to have anything to do with his little science experiment. He filled my system with the same poison they used on their other memory victims—I was fairly sure that’s what the needle prick was—but then they left my mind intact. They clearly only used it to sedate me so they could bring me here.

Perhaps to instill some kind of fear in me? To let me know that they could take whatever they wanted? That they had the ability to manipulate me, too, just like they do with everyone else on this godforsaken compound?

Just like they clearly did to Sera last night after she was taken away?

I heard what Dr. Rio said to Director Raze. Full restoration.

The reality sank into my heart like a heavy stone.

They would erase me.

She would not remember me. Or the escape. Or anything.

I would have to start all over…again.

I attempted to reassure myself that it didn’t matter. That I’d done it numerous times before. That no matter what they took from her, she would always remember me somehow. In some deep part of her soul. I simply needed to reawaken that part.

I simply needed to remind her.

Still, it wasn’t ideal. It was never ideal. It would never be ideal as long as she was here. As long as she was a prisoner of this place.

For so many years, I considered myself the prisoner. I griped and fought and rebelled against the invisible chains that kept me here, just because I had a mother who valued science over anything else. And a father who couldn’t deal with her choices.

But Seraphina was the real victim. Worse than any of the rabbits or nanocams or vaporous gases I could ever release into the wild.

And I was now more convinced than ever that I had to set her free.

That I wouldn’t stop until she was safely away from here.

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