When The Wind Blows - 01 - When the Wind Blows by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Thriller
ISBN: 9780755387366
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2011-06-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 63

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My thoughts at this point in the physical exam were flying fast and furious. I felt as if my head had actually taken off and gone into permanent orbit. I had been aching for the chance to find out who or what this magical creature was. Now that I had examined her, I could hardly absorb what I had learned. She was supergirl, wasn’t she?

A perfect design.

But who was the designer? Or designers?

I needed an X–ray machine. I needed blood analysis equipment. I needed medical and zoological experts to help me interpret the data. I had more questions now than ever before.

“So tell me, where do you come from, Max?” I said, as I put my stethoscope back in my medical bag.

She gave me one of her mischievous smiles. “A cabbage patch,” she said. “I was left there by a stork.”

Then her green eyes narrowed. “How come I have wings and you don’t?” she asked.

“I don’t know. That is the big question, though.”

Max looked hurt. Did she think I was lying to her? Withholding? From the sudden pained look on her face, I could see that she’d really wanted me to give her a good answer. “They” had kept her in the dark about herself, hadn’t they.

“I’m going to try to find out,” I said. “Give me some time. This is all new and overwhelming to me. Please, trust me a little, Max.”

“I trust no one,” she snapped. I saw a spark of anger, bitterness, and a lot of hurt in her eyes.

Had she been living with medical researchers? Young people? Lab techies? I’d noticed that her language could be very colloquial, and young. I kept testing her with figures of speech.

“You think grown–ups are full of it, don’t you?” I said.

Max shrugged. “Whatever. I’m going to play with Pip, okay? May I? Is that allowed? Or do I have to stay inside — now that you have what you want from me.”

“No, Max. Go play.”

She bolted from the room. She was angry. Was it with me, or something I’d said. Whatever it was, she was starting to cry. Max was able to cry, and that was stunning to me. I imagined an eagle soaring over the land that man was so obviously wasting, and being able to cry about it. Or a mother robin crying over an injured chick she couldn’t help.

I found Kit out on the deck where I’d left him earlier. When he saw me, he hung up his cell phone.

“What happened in there? She looked like she was crying.”

“Well, she didn’t tell me where she lives,” I said softly. “But what I learned from examining her completely knocks me out. Kit, she’s medical history. However it happened.”

“Tell me,” he said. His eyes became intense, probing. I am the police.

“I don’t know where to start exactly. I think she’s a human being who was born to fly. Max is definitely human. She’s got a human brain, emotions, but the rest of her is an amalgam of human and avian pieces and parts.

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