Legacy: the Girl in the Box #8
“My mother’s voice echoed over the speaker of the phone. I held it in my hand, pushed against my ear, my head back against the chair.
“I read the minds of a few of the surviving mercenaries,” I said, replying slowly, as if I were prying the words out of my own mouth. “They didn’t seem to know we’d be at half capacity. Their task wasn’t even to kill the metas they did, they were supposed to secure them and barter for the telepaths.”
There was a pause on the other end of the line as my mot...her took a deep breath. Morning was shining in from outside the windows, the sun gazing down on what should have been a perfect day. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t even have noticed. Now I not only noticed but was painfully aware of the disparity between the weather as it was and what it should have been—dark clouds, gloom, rain, torrential downpours. Between the security detail and the metas I’d said I would protect, we’d lost enough people last night that it could only be classified as a catastrophe.MoreLess
“I read the minds of a few of the surviving mercenaries,” I said, replying slowly, as if I were prying the words out of my own mouth. “They didn’t seem to know we’d be at half capacity. Their task wasn’t even to kill the metas they did, they were supposed to secure them and barter for the telepaths.”
There was a pause on the other end of the line as my mot...her took a deep breath. Morning was shining in from outside the windows, the sun gazing down on what should have been a perfect day. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t even have noticed. Now I not only noticed but was painfully aware of the disparity between the weather as it was and what it should have been—dark clouds, gloom, rain, torrential downpours. Between the security detail and the metas I’d said I would protect, we’d lost enough people last night that it could only be classified as a catastrophe.MoreLess
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