Wilders- The Complete Trilogy by Cass Kim

Author:Cass Kim
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

Volume Three

Consequences

1

Renna

Renna sat at the table in the Kim’s dim cabin. Her left hip was sore from yet another marrow draw. It was the fourth one since she’d woken from the medically induced coma a month ago. The night was just starting, which was typically when she visited the Kim cabin. Further from the camp center than her own small space, it was soothing. Night was when more electricity was drawn, as the normal humans turned on flashlights, and amped up the generators to create light.

It also helped that Mrs. Kim was there, with her calm manner. Something about the lack of extra fidgeting movement most Wilders had, her stillness, always eased Renna’s mind. Somehow, despite all the long hours she worked, Soo Kim always had time to check in with her son, Emerson, every night. Renna tried to get to their cabin before Soo left for the labs. With her brother, Benjamin, still unpredictably wild, she had a hard time keeping her mind from racing with what-ifs. And she missed her own mom, strained though their relationship may be.

“Hey, who’s going to go for the supply run this time?” Syd’s drawl preceded her entrance to the cabin, flashlight in hand, knock non-existent.

Renna’s hip throbbed with her quick twist to see her new friend. Syd’s hair had grown out a bit, and droplets from the cold mist sparkled in the tight, natural curls.

Syd tilted the flashlight beam from the ceiling to the floor, trying to spare the three pairs of reflective, light sensitive eyes turned toward her. “Yo, I’m just wonderin’ because we need about six thousand things at this point, and you know I ain’t making a run into town.” Syd flashed a toothy grin at Emerson as she patted her hair carefully into place.

“Yeah, Girl Genius, you probably forgot how to go anywhere but to work, sleep, and eat anyhow,” Emerson answered. “Surprised you found your way here.” His grin made Renna’s stomach flutter. There was something so much lighter now in that expression.

Syd tapped her head, “Photographic memory, Professor X. Photo-graphic-perfect-like-me—”

Her stream of boasting was cut off by the dishtowel Emerson tossed at her face.

“That is enough. If you will choose to roughhouse, you will choose to leave the cabin to do it.” Soo’s voice was soft, but firm. So different from Renna’s own mom.

“Aw, Ma. We’ll get a supply run organized.” Emerson caught the towel Syd threw back at him. “Renna, wanna come with me? I promise it’ll be better than the last trip we took to town.” He hung the towel carefully over a cabinet knob, gaze hidden.

Renna grimaced. “I don’t know if it could possibly be worse.” The trip that had simultaneously sealed her fate as something other and offered the first real potential to save the world. Yeah. It’d be hard for any trip to be worse than that trip.

He turned around, gaze serious. “You won’t have to carry me a step of it this time.” He drew an X across his heart with one calloused finger.

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