United by S L Harpel

Author:S L Harpel [Harpel, S L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

It was a quiet and short trip through the weaving hallways and up to Ursula’s office. Ruby was there too along with a few others. Ursula sat down at the small table, shuffling through some papers she quickly stuffed away.

It piqued my interest. I knew only one reason to put something on paper: it was to have just a single copy of it. The fact that she quickly hid it away upon my entrance told me she didn’t want me to see it either.

“Alright, now that we are all finally here,” Ursula said, coming to a stand and letting her gaze float across me for just a second.

She didn’t have any malice in her tone, but then, she wasn’t the kind of person to wait around for someone else. I mumbled a half felt, barely spoken apology as I made my way up and took a seat at the table.

It was almost completely void of any others in their proper place. Those standing around the room knew better than to take a chair not proffered to them either.

“You know what this is about?” Ruby whispered, leaning down to me as I took my seat.

I just gave a shrug and a shake of my head. She looked more than anticipating the news but almost nervous about it. Looking at the other faces around the room I found most of them shared her unease or worse, had a terrified look of knowledge that they couldn’t bear to share.

“I know these last few days have just been one hit after another,” Ursula said with a slow huff. “I can’t promise things are going to get any better before they get worse. I do have some hope for us. I just recently received word from Jake. They left the far north settlement earlier this morning.”

“Having to take new precautions, their trip will be fairly slow and won't be arriving till tonight. As soon as we get word of their arrival I want every single member of leadership up in the room. I am told that the information they have is vital.”

“Any word as to what it pertains to?” Jorge chimed up in his seat next to me.

Normally I would have chatted happily with him before this meeting started. But even if I had been allotted the time to do so, I don’t think I could have mustered the strength.

“He said it wasn’t safe to say, even over the video com,” Ursula said, furrowing her brow in frustration.

I knew she was impatient to know if their trip actually paid off. I was getting the feeling that the stakes were getting higher than even I knew as of yet. It was probably best that Jake didn’t give information even on a video com. I was sure that if DJ was put to the task of intercepting such a thing, he would have found a way to do so. There was no reason to suspect our father wouldn’t also find someone to do the same for him.

“That’s why it is extremely important that we all assemble immediately once they arrive.

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