State of Nature: book Three of the Park Service Trilogy
“My initial panic is quickly replaced with dread.
I know what I have to do today, and the idea of it sickens me. I couldn’t set off that wave at the lake house and kill Dr. Radcliffe and a few heartless scientists to save everyone in Holocene II, but now I’m going to send everyone in Holocene II to their early deaths in Eden just to save Jimmy and myself.
My door cracks open, and Jimmy pops his shaved head into the room.
“Hey, that giant lady is downstairs, and she’s less friendly th...an she was last night. She says we’re late.”
“Tell her we’ll be in the square in a few minutes.”
There’s no time to shower, so I brush my teeth and splash cold water on my face before joining Jimmy downstairs.
“I found some of ’em crisper things,” he mumbles, crumbs tumbling from his mouth. “But they taste pretty stale.”
I chew a handful of ancient algaecrisps and wash them down with some tap water, which for some reason tastes of chemicals to me now.MoreLess
I know what I have to do today, and the idea of it sickens me. I couldn’t set off that wave at the lake house and kill Dr. Radcliffe and a few heartless scientists to save everyone in Holocene II, but now I’m going to send everyone in Holocene II to their early deaths in Eden just to save Jimmy and myself.
My door cracks open, and Jimmy pops his shaved head into the room.
“Hey, that giant lady is downstairs, and she’s less friendly th...an she was last night. She says we’re late.”
“Tell her we’ll be in the square in a few minutes.”
There’s no time to shower, so I brush my teeth and splash cold water on my face before joining Jimmy downstairs.
“I found some of ’em crisper things,” he mumbles, crumbs tumbling from his mouth. “But they taste pretty stale.”
I chew a handful of ancient algaecrisps and wash them down with some tap water, which for some reason tastes of chemicals to me now.MoreLess
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