The Disease
only affects people sixteen or older. It starts with the symptoms of a cold. Then the skin begins to itch, and spots appear--spots that soon turn into pus-filled boils. But the worst part is the headache, the inner voices that tell you that you need to eat them...the young ones.
When the disaster strike, the world turns upside for Ed, Jack, Bam, and other students at Rawhurst School. The parents and older siblings they left back at home or dead--or worse. Once the teachers go on the attck, the kids know it's time to escape and make their way to the city, it's got to be better in London... or will it be worse?
"It all started when I turned twelve. Up until then, I was near enough a normal kid. Despite my unusual name, Eli, I fit in pretty well in normal life in London..."
Until they came.
Without warning, I'm taken from my home and my family on my birthday, to a place that's 'safe' for kids like me. Kids with special abilities. I am one of the six in the ever changing group of kids that posses the powers over the elements... and I'm destined to die when I reach eighteen. With a traitor in our midst, life at the secluded castle that's our home becomes even harder. Can me and some of my newly found friends find a cure for our affliction, and the traitor, or will it be too late for one of us?
When the life you know ends in six years, you begin to appreciate every second.