Warchild: The Collected Edition (The Warchild Box Set) by Ernie Lindsey

Author:Ernie Lindsey [Lindsey, Ernie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JCL Publishing
Published: 2014-09-09T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Judas

Finn and I wait off to the side of a large congregation. Word had spread like juicy gossip through The Center, the way it used to do back in my encampment, and now every man, woman, and child, soldier and volunteer alike, stand in the southeast corner of the warehouse.

They give us expectant glances and chatter in hushed voices. I can’t tell if they’re excited or scared. Perhaps a little bit of both. Mother and Father are close by, giving me warm, reassuring smiles, but they’re not allowed to come closer until Hale has said what he needs to say to us.

The leader of the Rebel Coalition shoves his way through the crowd with Mosley at his side, looking determined.

He’s added a RPV army jacket to his attire, but all the official pins and badges of recognition have been replaced by a small emblem of a single fist held up, resting on a blue background with orange trim.

This badge rests over his left breast, and when he stops in front of us, he beats his chest twice on top of it.

Hale says, “So.”

Finn holds his chin up and replies, “So.”

Hale snarls slightly. “I can’t say that I enjoy the fact that you two are here. Kinders, of all things. I think the whole country rejoiced when they thought all of you bastards had died out, yet here you are. So young. Tell me how.”

Finn says, “Someone gave me a serum, when I was a baby. It made me a Kinder, just like the first ones.”

“Is there any more of this serum out there? Could there be more of you?”

Finn hesitates. It’s not something either of us had considered. “I can’t say absolutely not, but if there were, I’m sure I’d feel them.”

Hale pinches his eyebrows together and glares at Finn. “Feel them? How?”

Finn shrugs. “I don’t know. It’s one of my…abilities, I guess. I could feel Caroline long before I met her, another one of my kind, you know?”

“And she’s the only one?”

“As of right now, yes, and I can’t tell you any more than that, because I don’t know.”

Hale turns to me. His tongue creeps out at the corner of his mouth, like a mouse poking its head out of a hole, as he studies me intently. “You? How?”

“We had a Kinder in my encampment, and she was—”

“I’m familiar,” he interrupts. “Short and sweet, Mathers. Your story, not hers.”

I nod and stare at the top of my boots. This feeling of being scolded by an authority figure is strange, considering the fact that I could lift him with my pinky finger and throw him the length of the warehouse. But, I reckon that comes from years of bowing to Hawkins whenever he barked an order. I clear my throat and say, “I had a dream. I mean, I saw what happened in my dream, like I was looking at the past. I was a baby. I drank her blood from her fingertip like I was drinking from a bottle.

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