“NaNoWriMo 2020 Pt. 41”

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

So… I’m dead. Apparently. At least, that’s what Maddie seems to think.

“Sorry, I guess this is probably coming as a shock to you,” Maddie says. “I just thought you should know.”

I stop and sit down heavily. “You… you thought I should know?” I whisper. “What, that I’m dead? How is that in the least bit relevant right now? Or important?”

“Well,” Maddie sighs, “everyone who has an ability has died at some point. At least, that’s how we think it works.”

“So Ryan…?”

She shakes her head. “No, not Ryan. That’s the thing. Winston was doing some experiments, trying to get some of us Normies to volunteer. Ryan said that he’d never do it, but then something changed. That promotion…”

She trails off before suddenly punching a tree. I wince when I see the blood from her knuckles staining the bark but she doesn’t.

“So Winston figured out what gives us our… abilities?” I ask slowly.

Maddie nods, cradling her hand. “Yeah, I guess so. But it’s unstable. Whatever he does to them, it eventually kills them. And they don’t come back.”

“But you just said that dead people come back to life with new powers.”

“Not these ones,” Maddie sighs. “We swore to each other that we’d never let him do that to us. He said he’d never be Winston’s pawn.”

I stay silent. Because something just occurred to me.

Garrett was dead. And now he’s not. So that means that he has some special ability too.

Final Comments: I realize that nothing much has happened in this story recently… I’m trying to decide what to do next.

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