Blinding Light (BLS Book 1)

Nolan

“What?!”

Sira says nothing. I can see the terror in her eyes. She opens her mouth, but nothing comes out. Asher snatches the tablet from her hands. A big red triangle with an exclamation point is flashing violently in the top right corner, signaling the barrier’s breaking.

I stand behind Asher and watch him pull up the data analysis. The live version of the graph is going up so fast. The line graph is glitching so severely it’s giving me a headache. Somehow, Asher pulls up another chart with a bar graph with percentages on the side and one date: today.

“How did you—”

“Shush,” he says before jamming the tablet into my hands. The bar is at sixty-five percent and rising steadily.

Seventy.

Eighty.

Ninety.

…

…

Ninety-five.

“Is this a good sign?” I ask as the numbers reach ninety-seven.

“No. It’s not. See this?” He points at the other bar that’s appearing out of nowhere that’s colored red instead of the usual blue-green.

“What the hell is that?” I ask, frowning.

“I have no idea. It’s like not only her powers are waking up, but it’s waking up along with something else.”

Although I don’t know what that means, I know it’s not good.

The faint bar next to the main one now rises to twenty percent. Just then, the door bursts open. Indra rushes over to us just before my father. Her shirt is buttoned weirdly and her hair, which is usually in a ponytail, is messily placed on her head as a messy bun. My father’s hair is also out of place.

Ewwwww. Barf.

She gets behind Asher and saw the graph, panic now invading her eyes.

“Sira! Explanation. Now.”

“Well…”

“No. No blabbering, explanation now!” Indra shouts.

“Sorry,” she mutters. “The barrier is broken—only the host. She…she…” She gulps, then she points at the screen.

My eyes travel to the hidden camera of the simulation room. She’s there, she’s standing, and one of her eyes glow a faint red, the exact color of the mysterious graph on the data.

I look over at Asher, and he nods—seeing the same thing.

“I thought the data reveal was supposed to be safe!” Indra says incredulously, staring at the screen.

“The barrier when we deactivated was al-alright. But then we must’ve used the failsafe as the reactivation barrier. It was too flimsy, and her anger must’ve triggered the new burst of power in the g-graph,” Sira stutters, on the verge of tears—even one who’s blind could see the fear radiating in her eyes. Just then, a loud alarm screeches in my ear.

“What is that?!” Indra and my father asked at the same time.

“I don’t know!” Sira screams over the noise.

“Someone turn it off!” I shout. Sira grabs the tablet from my hands and types something into it. I glance over at Asher, who has a terrified expression on his face.

“Asher,” I say, and he looks at me. “What are you hiding?”

“This…this has happened before. The alarm. The noise.”

“What are you talking about?!”

“It’s happened before Nolan!”

He grabs my shoulders. His blue eyes stared firmly at me before darting around in alarm.

“This has happened before.”

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