Wake of Deception by Sasha DeVore

Author:Sasha DeVore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ancient aliens, alien invasion stories, new age fiction, young heroes, teen main character, new sci-fi books, dystopian books
Publisher: Red Pendulum Press
Published: 2016-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

In the District

Hanu got out of bed somewhere on the other side of the midnight hour. He had been going back and forth in his mind, trying to find reason enough to turn from everything and never look back. He couldn’t quite do that now. And he still really didn’t see himself just ferrying people to the Underground like Paula and the others. That was still too passive. He thought about what Reggie said about people from the City of Fire – that they had a fire burning within them – that they couldn’t help but fight the system. Hanu didn’t think Reggie knew what he was talking about. Hanu had a real fire in his gut, and it wouldn’t allow him to just sit back in his cozy bed while people were out there dying.

That’s why he was running away. Hanu planned it all out while everyone else was downstairs for dinner. Ester had been in bed for the last couple hours, snoring gently, but he had to wait until Paula fell asleep. After everyone else had climbed the stairs for bed, she stayed up securing the tunnels and enabling the alarms. Then she sat at her desk at the bottom of the stairs, sending her messages. Hanu could hear her tapping the little lever and then minutes later, receiving a message back in little beeps. She spent about an hour or so doing this while Hanu impatiently waited.

Now she was retired to her room and enough time had passed for her to have fallen asleep, so Hanu slipped out of his bed and down the stairs.

First, he opened the pantry. He took four jars of peaches and a loaf of bread, and put it in the bag that Harris had sent them with. He would eat one jar on the way to the Bathtub Resort and stash the rest in the tunnel for the return journey. If all went as planned, he would need the extra food for Akesh and anyone else he could save along the way.

Then he found the knife in the desk drawer. He would use it as a tool, or perhaps to defend himself with. He stashed it in his back pocket, along with the flashlight he’d been using to read the Tome late at night. He snuck to the pool and bottled some water, then drank a few handfuls. He knew he would need to be hydrated for the walk ahead.

Now the tricky part. Hanu had seen Paula disengage the alarm on a couple occasions, but he never had reason to pay real attention. He was pretty certain he could do it, though. The day they got their food and supplies delivered, he remembered looking at the pattern and thinking the passcode was too easy. She had just run a finger up one side of the pad and down the other. Then she hit the green button, which said ‘send’.

Hanu opened the cover of the box and traced the pattern to jog his memory.

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