“NaNoWriMo 2020 Pt. 39”

Author’s Note: This is a Take Ten to Write story and has not been proofread for errors. If I feel inspired or if there’s interest in the story, I’ll post a revised, edited, and extended version at a later date. Happy reading!

Additional note: This is a continuation of the NaNoWriMo 2020 TTtW story.

Read the compiled NaNoWriMo TTtW story here!

SKYE’S POV

As Maddie leads me through the trees, my stomach finally starts to settle.

“Are you sure you don’t want to go with him?” I ask her, half teasing.

She snorts. “I’d rather die.” Then she pauses. “No, wait, then I’d be one of them.”

I frown at her. “What do you mean?”

She stops, her eyes wide. “Sorry,” she says, her cheeks reddening. “I… I didn’t mean that I wouldn’t want to be like you. It’s just… I don’t know, it’s just weird.”

I look at her with confusion. “I’m still not following.”

She opens her mouth before stopping. After thinking for a few moments, she whispers, “Have you really not figured it out yet?”

“Figured what out?”

“Your…” she hesitates, searching for the right word. “Abilities.”

I glance down at my hands. “I’d rather not talk about that.”

“Winston calls people like you Specials,” Maddie continues, completely ignoring my request. “People with special abilities, that is.”

“So?”

“You have abilities,” Maddie says slowly, as if waiting for me to figure it out. “You didn’t have them all your life, right?”

“Right…?”

“They happened after the Day of the Halving.”

“Sure.”

“After the world went to crap.”

“Uh huh.”

“Lots of people died.”

“Yeah.”

Maddie stares at me, as if waiting for me to make the next comment. But I don’t, because I still don’t understand.

Finally, she sighs. “After the Day of the Halving, something happened. I don’t know if it’s something in the air or the water or what, but it makes it so that when you die, you come back. And when you come back, you have a special ability.”

“So…” My mind refuses to wrap around what she’s saying.

Maddie looks into my eyes. “What I’m trying to say is that technically, Skye, you’re dead.”

Final Comments: Felt like this was important even though I kind of just left Mason hanging…

Overall Rating: 😮