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Chapter 33- The Woman in the Raincoat
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REBORN IN THE APOCALYPSE, CLAIMED BY THE COMMANDER Chapter 34- Come Alone
Emilia stood with one boot on the step of the transport and listened to the dead radio hiss, and every sensible part of her mind told her that she had just been handed bait.Joss had said it in the code of their childhood, the same quick and breathless whisper she used to use when she wanted to sneak out of a sleepover. He lied had been the part that mattered, and come alone had been the part that was meant to be overheard. Emilia had spent half a lifetime learning how Joss hid things inside other things, and she felt the shape of the warning settle in her chest like a coin dropped into a well.She climbed into the cab and told everyone to sit down.Kaelen was already in the driver's seat with the engine running, and he did not look at her as the transport lurched forward across the field. The silo fell away behind them in a haze of smoke, and the ruined pump house shrank to a gray smudge on the riverbank. Emilia pressed her palm against the window and searched for Garrick among the f
REBORN IN THE APOCALYPSE, CLAIMED BY THE COMMANDER Chapter 33- The Woman in the Raincoat
The fire rolled across the riverbank like a tide of orange glass, and Emilia did not feel the heat reach her because something small and thin threw itself over her body.She hit the gravel with the breath knocked out of her lungs and the stranger's weight pressing against her back. The blast roared above them, and burning fragments of concrete spattered the stones on either side of her head. When the sound finally rolled away into a long ringing hush, she turned her head and found the woman in the torn raincoat lying across her shoulders with both arms spread wide, her gray face a handsbreadth from Emilia's own.The woman's eyes were brown, and they were wet, and they were looking at her with a terrible dawning clarity. Her lips moved around a word that she had not spoken in years, and what came out was a small cracked whisper. She said that her name was Marta, and that she had been a schoolteacher on the second day of the red sky, and that she had not been able to stop screaming sinc
REBORN IN THE APOCALYPSE, CLAIMED BY THE COMMANDER Chapter 32- The Guards Who Stood Up Again
The helicopter rose from the river like a great black insect, and every pane of glass in the pump house shivered in its frame.Emilia threw herself against the wall beside the window and pulled Lena down with her as the aircraft swung its nose toward the building. The rotors chopped the mist into streamers, and a thin red light blinked on the underside of the fuselage, steady and patient as a watching eye. Director Varga stood frozen in the doorway with her hand still on the latch, and her face had gone so white that her scar looked like a thread of ink drawn across paper.She said in a hollow whisper that the aircraft had been built to obey only her order, and that its pilots had no minds of their own to be turned. Then she corrected herself with a bitter little laugh. She said that this was exactly the kind of sentence a person says in the moment before discovering that she was wrong.Voss spoke again from the radio, and his voice was so pleasant that it made Emilia's stomach turn.
REBORN IN THE APOCALYPSE, CLAIMED BY THE COMMANDER Chapter 31- The Cage Built for One Man
Kaelen lifted his head from Emilia's shoulder, and the small bright voice in the radio went on speaking as though it were afraid that silence might swallow it again.Ivy said that she had watched Voss build the cage for eleven years through the cracks in the seam. She could not describe it well, because the door bent her sense of shape and distance, but she knew that it was made of the same pale metal as the machine under Marlowe Hill and that it had been fitted to the exact measure of one man. Voss had spent years collecting records of every regressor who woke after the first death, and he had studied each of them in turn, searching for the one whose memory ran deepest. Kaelen had been the only one who remembered the first closing, and the only one who could survive standing inside the seam long enough to hold it.Emilia asked what Voss meant to do with him once he was inside.The girl hesitated, and the static swelled and ebbed like breath. She said that Voss did not intend to close
REBORN IN THE APOCALYPSE, CLAIMED BY THE COMMANDER Chapter 30- A Laugh He Had Forgotten
Kaelen did not move, and the pump house seemed to hold its breath along with him.The static hissed softly from the old radio, and Emilia felt his fingers go slack against her hand. She looked up and saw that his face had emptied of every defense he owned. He looked like a boy standing at the edge of a frozen lake, wanting desperately to believe the ice would hold and too afraid to put his weight on it.He asked in a cracked whisper whether it was a trick.The first Emilia answered from the speaker with a gentleness that made Emilia's throat ache. She said that she would never lie to him about this, because she had watched him search for his sister's face through twelve lives and she knew exactly how much it would cost him to be fooled. Ivy had been taken by the seam the same night the door first tore open, she explained, and she had not died but slipped into the space between the worlds where the Keeper slept. The seam kept everything it swallowed, and it kept it carefully, like a mi
REBORN IN THE APOCALYPSE, CLAIMED BY THE COMMANDER Chapter 29- The Song in the Static
The lullaby rose from the old radio in a thin silver thread, and every person in the pump house turned toward it as though it had called their names.Emilia felt the tune settle into her bones before her mind could argue with it. It was the same cracked and tender melody that had floated through the cistern, but the voice carrying it now was gentler and younger and somehow closer. She pressed her fingers against her lips and realized that she was shaking, because she recognized the small catch in the second line. It was the catch she made herself whenever she hummed alone in the dark.Helena pushed away from the wall with a hand over her chest. She said in a bewildered whisper that the voice was not hers, though it carried every note of her teaching. She had sung that song to both of her daughters for years, and she could hear her own habits inside it like fingerprints pressed into clay, but the woman who sang it now had learned it from a mother and made it her own.The Director nodde
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