Blinding Light (BLS Book 1)

Nolan

I resist the urge to sneeze to avoid being trapped in quarantine for at least a week.

My head flops back to my chair as I sigh. I stare up at my room’s ceiling.

Ugh, my brain hurts. Why must I endure this shitty job?

My fingers are sore from typing all the data in. Sira just informed me of another being with abilities.I sigh in frustration. It’s been three whole hours. I still can’t wrap my head around what Sira had meant by the ability boost. Maybe Silas will know more, he’s her twin after all.

***

“Silas!” I call out into the hallway. I don’t care if I get in trouble, I’m allowed to do whatever the hell I want. Silas appears in the hallways a few seconds later.

“Come here!” I yell at him; he nods at me. It’s not long before he’s standing in front of me.

His yellow eyes narrow, “What, Nolan?”

“Shift first. I can’t let Sira know that you’re here. Everyone knows she’s a computer nerd. She’ll hack into the camera in literally just onesecond,”he sighs and shifts. His body shrinks before he transforms into a beetle. I pick him up and set him on my computer. Even when he transforms, his eyes glow a faint yellow.

“Can you see?” I point at my screen. He transforms his lips back like that Snapchat filter from 2020 and says,

“No.”

I sigh. Silas jumps down and shifts into a mouse, landing on my keyboard with a thud.

“Hey!”I shout as he runs across the keyboard, hitting random keys. I pick him up by the tail and set him off to the side, deleting the extra words. I bring the screen down.

“See it now?”

The mouse nods. His eyes are disturbing. Mice usually only have black, beady eyes, but his eyes are yellow with strange slits—like a cat and a mouse, somehow morphed together.

“Okay, what does this mean?” I nod towards the data table. “What does your sister mean by the ability boost?”

His eyes widen at the data and look up at the camera in the corner of my room. One thing I hate about this place is that there is absolutely no privacy whatsoever. There are hidden cameras everywhere. The least I could do is cover the actual camera that I can see. He shifts back. His mouse form morphs back into his face. I pick his half-transformed body off my desk and chuck him on my bed.

He exclaims as he lands on his rear end. “Ow, what was that for?”

I slide my hand out towards the table. “Dude, ever heard of—you’re fucking fat, don’t transform on my desk?!” I sneer out in only partial rage.

Control yourself. Anger stays in.

“I see what you mean,”hesays sarcastically and I roll my eyes.

“Well? The information?” I ask, my patience dropping slowly, correction, dropping real fast. He rubs his chin.

“The ability boost data?”

“Yes.”

He looks at me with a desperate look as he sits up straighter in my bed. “Don’t get mad?”

I sigh in frustration,

“Spit it out, Silas. No conditions.”

He sighs, “You are impossible.”

He stares into space for just a second before continuing, “Well, I should tell you that the ability boost has something to do with me.”

“You? How so?” I ask, furrowing my eyebrows.

“Well, I may have linked myself to her brother’s Omni-Telepathy and went inside her head.”

“You…” I begin, barely containing the volume of my voice, “You went inside her mind without telling any of us?”

“I did tell—Asher...and my sister,”he rubs the back of his neck.

“Of all people, you couldn’t tell my father? This is a big boost! It can get us ready for phase two! Couldn’t you have told someone other than Asher? The person who cares least about this case?!” I exclaim, my rage inclining.

Why have I been losing myself so easily these days?That’s a mystery I could not have figured out. Maybe it has something to do with the days I have left.

I’m getting restless about the Project. If it doesn’t work soon, it’s over for all of us.

He merely replies, “Well, Asher allowed us entry to the APT,and Sira kind of spilled the beans without intention,”he ruffles his hair. “And also, we’ve technically started phase two already, just in a minority sort of way.”

“What? How so?” I cross my arms, frowning.

“We…I was trying to get the host to have another vision about the actual present.”

“Mm-hmm,” I say, nodding for him to continue.

“During that time, I accidentally activated a failsafe. It was unintentional, but the results came out positive, that’s what you’re analyzing,” he finishes, pointing at the screen.

“You were the aura I detected that other day, wasn’t it?”

“You detected me?”

I breathe in deeply and exhale, “Ah Silas, you and Sira and going to be the death of me,” I sigh loudly.

“At least the results are good. I’ll report it to my father. And what exactly did you discover?”

“It has something to do with her family,”he says.

“The major ability boost Sira has revealed probably was all tech talk.” I roll my eyes.

“Obviously. When does she do normal talk?”

“Never.”

I laugh at his sarcastic tone.

“Anyways,”he continues, “It started with the memory of her brother that jump-started the ability,” he points at a jump in the graph in July,“The other time, it was actually a mistake. I was in an experiment with her at that time, but something went wrong. As I said, I accidentally activated a failsafe or something similar. It resulted in her attempt of suicide.”

“Her attempted suicide? At the lake?”

He nods. I’m still trying to wrap my head around this. So, Silas was the reason she seemed out of it during the Third Event of the so-calledAlliance Tour. The reason she kept fainting and blacking out.

“Anything else?”

“Yes, actually. There is something else,”he pauses, “Sira and I have also taken this failsafe to another level.

“We used this to create an alternate effect on the nonexistent injury on Raven—her memory of Raven. We used it and modified the injury to seem like she had broken her dear sister’s wrist.

Already knowing that family was important to her, therefore, the injury had another ability spike when Raven saved her. Basically, family importance just doubled in percentage.”

I take in the information, slowly, “That’s it?”

“Yep. That’s all we did.” I nod and let the information slowly wrap around my mind. So family is important to her, huh.

“Hurting Raven is what jumped her ability?”

He shakes his head,“Hurting is one thing, but Raven being able to rescue her from her attempted suicide is also another factor.”

I pace up and down my room.

“Hurting and rescuing.”

An idea pops into my mind.

“I believe it’s time to pay her family a little visit.”

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