Atlanta (Part of My World) (DISCONTINUED)

Chapter 22

Nothing on the net said anything about letumosis being not contagious. 

Then why were Thorne and Cress still alive? 

Why hadn't Cinder killed them all already? 

Cinder slept flat on her back, staring at the top bunk above her. There was another bunk across the room, where Kai slept, curled delicately up onto himself, like a cat, facing the wall. She rolled over onto her side, staring at Kai's back, thoughts whirling through her head like lost wind. 

"Kai."

"Mmmughmmschmawaaaaah?" He mumbled, turning over and rubbing his eyes. His hair was fluffed up and his face was sleepy. With a dazed expression, he gazed over at her, his eyes misty and fogged up, veiled over with sleep. 

"Why aren't they dead yet?"

"Who?"

"Thorne and Cress, they aren't sick." 

"Maybe it's just...." His voice faded off into an incoherent mumble. Cinder winced as a bullet of pain shot through her head, shaking up her vision. She reared in on the retina screen that blinked in her vision, and stared a little. There were already seven different feeds split screen across her dash, numerous researches on Letumosis and whether it's contagiousness. Hmmm. 

She collapsed the tabs, condensing them into a list, links swimming across her vision, way too many letters and ugh...

Another screen tagged up, and Cinder observed it, staring at the words. 

Warning

Wire damage, wire A-34, wire 4-36, and wire Green B-6. Wire restoration is advised. 

Cinder groaned a little, and Kai kicked off the sheets, sitting up on the bed, staring a little bit, a worried expression on his face. 

"What? Is there something wrong?" He asked, frantic and... kinda clueless. 

"No. Yes. Kind of. Something popped three of my wires, and I don't know what did," Cinder mumbled, and bit the corner of her lip, looking downwards at her retina screen. She started to worry, knowing that two of these wires were in her head, and would require surgical processes to fix. Any trauma to the wires and they would disconnect completely, depriving Cinder of something important. 

A-34 would be easy to fix, but anything else... Cinder stood up, and sat back down. She started out by opening up the little hatch in her hand, disconnecting the extremity wires. The little plastic pieces clicked out, and yellow text flitted up. 

Extremity wires have been unplugged. Take caution, restoration is advised. 

Cinder just flicked the text out of her screen, and wiggled a few wires, bending them back into shape. She winced as the central wire hit a nerve wire, and a spark of numbness and jittering flitted through her hand. She shook it out, as Kai looked at her with concern written on his face, and then ducked back into bed, kicking the sheets randomly back over his body, burying his face in his pillow sleepily. There was an audible "gughhhlhlk" and he fell back asleep. 

She dug around in the calf compartment of her leg, and fished out a little metal part. Wedging it underneath the two wires, Cinder turned the wire off, so that it wouldn't spark and ruin the others, and promptly split it open with her nail. She would need something to seal the wire later, but that wasn't necessarily a problem right now. Zooming in on her vision, Cinder peered at the inside of the wire structure, and paused a little, and  then stared. Hmmmm...

The blue wire strands were broken, shattered away from each other in three different segments. It would be easy to fix, so she fished out more gauge wire, and then strung it on. She was pretty sure the heat from the wires being turned on again, would chemically reconstruct her saliva and the wire coating to bind them together. Eh, there was really nothing to lose, so she tried it. 

The wires sparked as she turned them back on, the extremity wire warnings coming back, yellow and buzzing. There was a slight sizzle as everything bonded together, and Cinder waited until the A-34 wire warning disappeared. She collapsed back into bed, thoughts swirling. 

Authors Note: Apologies for my absence it felt like legit forever, I actually have a few schoolfriends following me, and probably reading this, *hi girl that sits across from me in science!*, so I've been kinda pressured to start writing in this fanfic a lot more. Yayyy.