Share the 99th page of your book.
This is from the first book in The Lenses Trilogy.
He looked at the girl, who was still unconscious.
“For her… Suria. They must be connected somehow.”
“That’s not the Suria I know.”
“Does it matter? She’s a Numan.”
“I guess not.” Kala looked away and wondered about her friend… if she really was her friend.
Her older brother nodded. “Come on. I don’t think it’ll try to hurt me anymore. Maybe if we go around it, it won’t do anything.”
Kala agreed. So together, with Zenith leaning on his sister for support, they took a step forward. The breather moved back a little, so they took another step, and the breather followed suit. They did this for the next several feet, always moving just one step at a time, trying to get around the behemoth. But even though it did not stop them, it was obviously not going to just let them leave. Whenever they strayed too far away from the Numan, the breather would push them back, surrounding them with a wall of air.
“Stop.” Kala was beginning to become very impatient with this game. Zenith didn’t look so good. With every movement, he winced from pain. In fact, with his injuries, she was surprised he could even walk at all. Plus, she was afraid that the evil Suria would wake up at any moment. And the last thing Kala wanted right now was to be squeezed to death.
“Puma gave me something for my birthday,” she said as she opened her knapsack and wriggled her hand in between packages of beef jerky and spray cans of paint.
“A present?” Zenith leaned against her, keeping one eye on Suria Griselda, and the other on the invisible machine. In his haste to get out, he had totally forgotten to grab the books.
Read more about Numans and breathers in After the Lenses.
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*Thanks to Christian Mihai for bringing this challenge to my attention.
David Joray 