Ava Altair grew up reading fantasy and science fiction novels. She graduated from Florida Tech with a BS in Science Education – Physics and a minor in Computational Mathematics. She taught as an AP Physics teacher for five years in Florida. She now lives in Oregon, teaching horseback riding lessons and managing the stables with her mom. She enjoys hanging out and talking about science concepts and story ideas with her dad.

What it is to be human doesn't apply anymore. The surface of the Earth has been poisoned by years of abuse and now most life lives beneath the waves of the ocean. Over the last 500 years, humans have become fragmented and specialized by genetic manipulation, but two main factions exist in the Undersea. The hybrids, a race that continues to genetically modify themselves to climb the social ladder, and the humans, the unmodified organic race that makes up the lowest tier of society. 

Alex, a Delta Six hybrid, finds an unlikely companion in a human man, Jack, while on a mission to steal the Athena file. Alex withholds the file to elicit help from Jack and they set out on an adventure across the Surface. Their relationship is tenuous until a device mysteriously links them together. Now, running from Alphas, an elite group of hybrid assassins, Alex and Jack must weather the hostile surface of the planet to reach their common goal. They soon find they can't both have the thing they want most, but also can't seem to let each other go.

FLUX

"The whole building is going to collapse, come on!" He said, his voice muffled by his arm.


The petite lady turned to him, a look of surprise on her face. She shook her head. "I can't, this is too important. I have to protect them." She bent back over her work and continued pulling the hard drives.


Tom leaned down next to her and pulled a drive in each hand over repeatedly, throwing them on the magnet. After thirty drives he stood up and looked at her. "Done?"


The women cocked her head to the side and looked at the mess of hard drives scattered on the ground. She turned around and calmly walked to her computer screens. She pulled another drive and tossed it in an open duffle bag on the floor near the counter. She then opened up the drawers of the counter and started tossing things in the bag.


Chapter 84: Over, Part 2