"TK-12?" The voice that echoed out through the narrow tunnel made my pulse run fast, shit, they'd found us.
Without hesitation, I started walking towards the soldiers who filled the opening in the narrow tunnel. "Archon .." I muttered and met the eyes of the man who had been one of my best friends.
"Tristan ..." he pleaded and took a step forward, "what the hell are you doing?"
"I'm doing the right thing," I replied calmly.
"And how the hell do you know what's right?" He muttered and took a step forward.
Lo had just received a message back from Carl and we had both gone up through the tunnel system to get a better signal. And right now he was sitting, a few hundred meters behind me, discussing our future with his father, and I knew he needed all the time he could get for everything to go as smoothly as possible for them.
"How do I know?" I hissed back "have you seen what's going on around us?"
"Tristan, you can't sacrifice us all for a boy you think you love!" he exclaimed but the words made my anger even worse.
"So I should sacrifice him for some fucking research project that's going to prolong the life of the bastards who already have everything they could wish for ?! How the hell is that fair Nate?"
The weapons were lowered slightly and his gaze softened on him "we are all dying Tristan."
"What the fuck are you talking about?"
"There's something about the sun and the radiation" he sighed and waved his arms "I don't know, but we'll probably die, all of us."
"But Lo is the solution to the problem?" I whispered with doubt in my voice.
In my head it sounded like bad propaganda and political waffle to justify the murder of children and young adults to collect their genes for the elite's growing bank for plastic surgery and god knows what.
"Have I ever lied to you Twelve?"
I shook my head but reminded myself which side I was on "But back then I was one of you, and I'm no longer that person Nate. I'm sure you've been ordered to capture me and Lo at any cost, maybe even killing me to get to him. "
"You know I have," he replied calmly, "but I'm trying to avoid it."
"I can't give him to you Archon" I sighed and got ready to defend myself "I love him."
My friend nodded and raised his rifle "I know Tristan, I know."
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In Search Of The Neon City
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