Chapter 98: Clone One

Crawlers everywhere. I don't resist Brick as he pulls me back, away from the view to face the interior of the park. I gesture to the dog to hold off his attack before he's harmed. There are too many of them, Crawlers rounding up my friends, the crew, flooding the green space, even for Duet and I to handle. We need to wait, to see where this takes us.

Who she is. Though in my aching heart, replacing the powerful urge to be here, I think I already know.

The lead truck pulls to a halt while the ground troops stomp forward. Cade appears from the passenger door, descends, smirking even as he offers a hand to one of the Crawlers exiting behind him. The soldier steps forward, pulling the rounded metal helmet free.

She smiles at me, waves from inside the white light

My sister clone's expression is soft, almost kind as she tosses her helmet to Cade and begins to remove her gloves slowly, one finger pull at a time, while my friends are dragged forward, shoved to their knees before her.