We, the Forsaken by Laken Cane

Author:Laken Cane [Cane, Laken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Why didn’t you tell me?” I asked Caleb, after he and Lila came back. “Why didn’t you tell me the mutants go into a forced sleep? That they’re like vampires that way?”

“Not just that way,” Lila said, but she grabbed her bowl of stew and left the room before I could question her. Which was fine with me.

“Talk to Richard,” Caleb said.

“I did. That’s why I know about the sleep.”

“They use it to recharge. If we were to capture one of them and somehow force him to stay awake, we think he’d implode.”

“But I’ve seen them in the daytime as well as night.”

“Here’s the thing. Each cluster is made up of two different groups of mutants. One group sleeps during a one hour window at night, and one group sleeps for one hour during the day. That way there are always mutants guarding the cluster. But.” He lifted a finger before I could interrupt him. “We’ve found that the nighttime awake cluster always has fewer guards than the daytime awake cluster. Maybe ten awake to fifty asleep. And their sleep coincides with our two o’clock. Day and night.”

“That’s our chance,” Richard said, walking into the kitchen, “Our window.”

My mind was spinning. “This is good. This is great.”

They smiled at my excitement. Maybe they were secretly laughing at me, but that didn’t bother me. The possibilities.

“So we can just wait for the nighttime cluster to sleep, then go take them out,” I said. “I’ll search for Sage while you guys are hosing the bastards down.” I clapped my hands, which startled the dog.

He lifted his head, gave a snort, then went back to sleep.

“Teagan,” Caleb said. “You know it won’t be that easy, right?”

“It doesn’t have to be easy. It just has to happen.”

Richard leaned against the sink. “Okay,” he said, finally. We both ignored Caleb’s look of surprise. “We’ll go in to kill, you’ll go in to rescue the girl. You understand you could be captured?” He paused. “You’ll have to stay calm.”

“Right,” Caleb said. “You can’t go into the cluster and freak out.”

I lifted my chin. “Don’t worry about me. Worry about killing the mutants. They’ll be too busy to care about me.”

Richard’s smile was slow in coming, but when it did, it lit up his eyes. “I told you you’re a hunter. Might as well get your feet wet now.”

“Hunter,” Lila called from the other room, incredulous. “Are you fucking kidding me? She’s a princess—not a badass.”

“She’s a hunter,” Richard said. He didn’t raise his voice, but the living room was just beyond the kitchen doorway. She heard him. “You and Caleb will teach her everything she needs to know.”

Lila came into the kitchen and slung her bowl into the sink. “I’m no one’s teacher, and I’m for damn sure not a babysitter. She’ll end up getting us all killed. She’s no hunter. She’s prey. Fucking vanilla scented prey.”

“You want out of the group, Lila?” Richard’s voice was calm, but it was deep, dark, and very angry. Lila seemed to have that effect on people.

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