I am
not sure if I would want to feel everyone’s pain. I need to get back to Kora. “I promise to try and make things different in
your future. I will really try.” I get up off the floor. He hugs me. “Please just make sure she doesn’t
die that way. I can’t lose her like that.” I look back at him. “So what now?”
Rev rudely intervenes. “We go back to Kora.” I put my hand out for the orb and
Rev hands it to me. “I hope things are
different for you if I ever see you again.” The orb feels more powerful than
before, it takes a little more to drop it.
“Later Erick.” Rev says as she walks through. I step in right behind
her.
Kora is
out in the garden. I walk out to her with the orb. “Here, where to now?” She
looks up at the orb. “Without Erick’s Blood they can’t be separated again. Not
that we would want to separate them. All five orbs are one machine that we
separated. When you put the pieces back together it will be one.” I nod. “So if Erick is the only one willing to
give it willingly… who is next on the list?” Kora gets up from the garden.
“Lily is next. Before you go to her, get her orb. You must know a little more
information about her.” She dusts herself off and heads inside. Rev is sitting
on her counter top eating a bowl of fruit. “Down please.” Kora tells her as she
walks into the room. “Yeah yeah yeah.” Rev says as she continues to eat her
fruit. I look at Rev wondering if this is a good time to tell her. How would I
even start? I look at her for awhile. “Fine I’ll get off, stop giving me that
look.” Rev jumps off the counter top and walks over to the table. Kora walks over and puts a book down on the
table. “Lily is a bomb specialist. Her country sold bombs to just about
everyone who could pay. Everyone was a part of it. The children made bombs, the
adults sold them, and even their education system was based on bomb making.
They weren’t a cut throat country like mine or West’s, but they had a few
hiccups when bombs went off and there were unexpected casualties.” She hands me a piece of paper with stories
about the bombings. It says a school went up in flames after a third grader put
a charger on a bomb too soon. All of kids died. “What is this?” I ask her.
“It’s a newspaper clipping” she says to me a like I am supposed to know what
that means. “What is a newspaper? Is it like a history book?” Rev does that thing where she moves her head
back and forth. “Yeah its like a day to day history book. It’s just as honest
as a history book. It is as true as the person who writes it believes it is.” I
look at the newspaper clippings. I don’t understand. “Okay, but why are we
looking at them?” Kora points at a part of the story. It says only one child
survived the explosion… Lily was the lone survivor. “How did she make it out?”
Kora sits down. “It was no accident Lily didn’t want to get executed for not
being the top of her class. I am not sure why she thought she would though
because the kids who didn’t make bombs got sent to work in the factories. As
far as we know, none of them were ever killed. But it was always a fear of
hers.”
I keep reading all of the newspaper clippings
Kora had on Lily, it seems that she was an extremely good bomb maker. She
became the go to woman to call whenever you needed things to be turned into
dust. This is a very different story then what was painted for us in the
history books, but at this point I am no longer surprised how much the history
books lied to us. “So what does all this mean? Why are you showing me this?”
Kora grabs the clippings out of my hand. “She might have a fail safe on her orb
to blow up. I know she booby-traps all of the houses she stays in. Only her
trained staff knows where they are. Well, you get the idea.” The idea???
“Bomb!” Rev says as she laughs. “Not funny.” I tell her. “Finally something
exciting.” Rev sounds actually excited for this. She goes to get her back pack.
“Have you decided when you’re going to tell her?” Kora asks me. “No. I am not
sure if when we’re getting the orbs is the best idea. I am waiting.” Kora looks
up. “Yes well, I wouldn’t wait too long. You’re her friend and it doesn’t seem
like she has too many of those. So she might take you waiting to tell her the
wrong way. But that’s just what I think.” I think she should’ve told her and
not left it on me. I just look down at
the clippings, I am not sure what to say. “So are you ready?” Rev asks me with
a smile on her face and her back pack on and ready to go. I can see her gun
holster already on under her jacket. “I am not even sure where to find
her. I have never met her before.” Kora
grabs the orb. “Come on. I’ll send you there.” She gets up and drops the orb.
“Let’s do this.” Rev walks right through. “Ill see you once I’m done.” I follow
after Rev being sure to get the orb on my way through.
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