The New Day (eBook)
268 Seiten
Verlagsgruppe Lübbe GmbH & Co. KG
978-3-7325-5519-2 (ISBN)
With help from her mutant friend, Sorrel closes in on an emotional reunion with her brother Eli, but her boyfriend David's disappearance shatters her dream of them all being together. For now. In the riveting final instalment of the Dark Times trilogy, Sorrel must overcome her darkest fears and fight for everything she believes in if she is to salvage anything worth living for.
THE NEW DAY is the third book in the Dark Times Trilogy by Lorraine Thomson.
2.
Lost
Sorrel and Einstein walked the length of the valley in silence, their shadows stretching before them. Sorrel had plenty of thoughts in her head, but they caught in her throat, unuttered, stifled there by a choking mix of excitement and dread. Excitement at being finally reunited with her little brother, dread at how she might find him.
In her mind, Eli was the same child she had last seen in Amat, always ready to laugh and eager to please, but on that devastating day, he had lost his mother, his sister, his home. He had lost everything he had known. They all had. The events of that day alone could not have failed to make an impact on Eli. She could not bring herself to think about what might have happened to him in the intervening time, and in what ways it might have changed him, as changed he must surely be.
She had changed, she knew that, as had David. Once so easy going, anger had eroded him and clouded his judgement. He had become jealous and irrational. He shouldn’t have made her choose between him and Einstein. If her feelings at being reunited with Eli were shaped by a combination of excitement and dread, her feelings for David were tempered by anger and loss. All she wanted was for them all to be together. It didn’t seem so much to ask.
By the time they reached the impressive Before building that Brig had claimed as his home, the last light of day was a fading memory.
“Are you ready?” Einstein asked.
Even Einstein had changed in the time she had known him. Being shackled in the mine had sucked something from him and seeing him reduced scared her.
“Not really.”
“You will be fine.”
Sorrel took a deep breath and walked up the wide shallow steps to the door. It opened before she could knock.
A mutant with closely-shorn black hair and no discernible neck appeared. The light from the lantern he held cast deep shadows across the far side of his face. “We’ve been waiting for you.”
His words alarmed Sorrel. What did he mean, “waiting”? Had they known all along she was searching for Eli? She glanced at Einstein.
“I think what Olaf is saying is that they have been watching us since we arrived in the valley.”
Olaf snickered. “Long time no see, Einstein.” He ushered them inside to a reception hall illuminated by a few candles. Paintings hung on the walls, and though the light was too dim to reveal much detail, there was enough for Sorrel to see that the canvases depicted strange beasts and wild landscapes.
“Who’s your friend?” Olaf’s words were addressed to Einstein, but it was Sorrel he looked at.
“My name is Sorrel.”
“Sour Sabs.” Olaf snickered again.
Sorrel bridled at the words. The last time she’d been called that, she’d been locked up in Dinawl’s prison.
“Leave your weapons here.” He nodded to a sideboard.
Einstein laid down his spear. Sorrel’s hand hesitated as it went to her knife.
“Don’t make me take it from you, Sabs,” Olaf said.
“Put it down,” Einstein said.
Sorrel paused for a moment before laying down her knife.
“Do I have to search you for more?” Olaf asked.
“That is all we have,” Einstein said.
Olaf smirked at the spear and knife. “Surprised you got this far. Come this way. Brig is waiting for you.”
Sorrel’s heart pounded as Olaf led them to a room where several lamps had been lit and a lively fire burned in the grate. She’d been focused on Eli, but finally it dawned on her that she was about to come face-to-face with the monster who had not only taken her brother, but who was responsible for killing her mother and sister.
She looked around, but Brig was not there.
“He’ll be with you presently.” Olaf dipped his head and left the room.
There were rugs on the floor and cushions on the upholstered sofas. Flowers had been placed in a vase on a table, and the fire burned bright and warm. Care had been taken to make it a room of comfort. Einstein watched as she wandered around, touching and looking.
“Not what you expected?”
She shook her head, not sure what to make of it.
“He is a complex character.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment.”
Sorrel jumped at the sudden growling voice. She turned around and found herself staring at the shaven-headed mutant who had murdered her mother and sister.
Mutants tended to the brawny by nature, but even by those standards, Brig was powerfully built. His piercing blue eyes pinned Sorrel to the spot and set her blood running cold.
“I know who he is, but who are you?”
Sorrel almost laughed, though had she done so, it would have tasted bitter and curdled on her lips. Brig was the harbinger of all the misery in her life and he did not even know that she existed. Shame, hot and full of misery, swept through her body at the thought of how she had crawled into Amat’s shadows to hide from him. But that was not something she was willing to give up to Brig, and so she pulled back her shoulders, raised her chin and looked him square in the eye when she spoke.
“I am Sorrel – Eli’s sister – and I have come to claim him.”
If Brig noticed the quiver in her voice, he did not comment on it. Instead he narrowed his eyes and turned to Einstein.
“And why are you here? What have you come to claim?”
His tone was mocking, but Einstein did not rise to the bait.
“I am here as Sorrel’s friend.”
“Friend?” Brig looked back at Sorrel. “This is a word he has little understanding of. You’d do well not to trust him.”
The tension Brig had brought to the room increased ten-fold. Sorrel felt that an eruption was imminent, but from what direction, she could not tell.
“You sold me, Brig. You sold me to the Free!” The words, held back for so long, exploded from Einstein’s mouth.
“You betrayed me!” Brig roared back.
“Betrayed you? We were friends. You turned on me for no reason.”
Sorrel’s gaze went from one to the other as Einstein and Brig hurled words at each other. She moved towards the door as the two mutants drew closer. If the worst came to the worst, she’d go to the hall and grab her knife and stick it in Brig’s neck, then they could find Eli and flee this place.
As though reading her thoughts, Brig rounded on her. “You! Get over where I can see you.”
Sorrel hesitated, but when Einsten gave a curt nod, she moved away from the door. Just at that moment, it opened and Olaf appeared. He looked at Sorrel and Einstein and then at Brig, a question on his face.
“Leave us,” Brig said.
“As you wish.” Olaf nodded, drawing a sly look at Sorrel and Einstein before withdrawing.
“Neither of you is to be trusted,” Brig growled. “As for you, Einstein – I knew you would survive. My conscience is clear.”
“You do not have a conscience.”
Brig drew him a contemptuous look. “You’re so smart, but you don’t know a thing. I feel as much as anyone, Einstein. I hurt, I bleed. When you betrayed me, it was like a stab in the heart.”
“I was loyal to you from the moment you took me in – so tell me, how did I betray you, Brig?”
“Don’t play mind games with me, Einstein. You know what you and Clovis did.”
“Clovis? Is that what this is about? That was –”
“That was what, Einstein?”
There was a pause before Einstein answered and Sorrel jumped right into it.
“Can you stop? Please? I came here to find my brother. Brig – you claim you feel and you hurt like anyone else – but you came to my home and you destroyed it. You murdered my baby sister and I watched you kill my mother. I saw you do it. Then you took Eli and I’ve been looking for him ever since. If – as you claim – you have a conscience, you’ll give him back to me.”
This time her voice did not quaver, but when Brig looked at her, the muscles in his face twitching, she thought he was going to bite her head clean off her shoulders and a tremble ran through her so deep it almost turned her bones to soup.
Though she feared she’d collapse in the hard glare of his eyes, Sorrel remained standing. After a few long moments, Brig’s face calmed and when it did, he seemed to regard her with new interest.
“You were there?”
Sorrel nodded.
“Hiding?”
She nodded again, this time with a glower in her eyes and the flame of scarlet in her face.
“Then there is something you should know. I killed your mother to put her out of her misery.”
Anger, sudden and fierce, blazed its way across Sorrel’s face, but before she could say anything, Brig held his hand up and told her to listen.
“I didn’t kill the baby, Sorrel.” A shiver ran through her at the sound of her name on his lips. “Someone in my crew did that, and when your mother tried to protect the child, he stabbed her in the stomach.”
Sorrel thought back to that dreadful day in Amat. Her mother tumbling out of their home, clutching Bella to her. There had been red, lots of red. She’d assumed it had come from Bella,...
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.7.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Dark Times Trilogy |
| The Dark Times Trilogy | The Dark Times Trilogy |
| Verlagsort | Köln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Original-Titel | The New Day |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Kinder- / Jugendbuch | |
| Schlagworte | All Age • Bestimmung • book series • books for teens • Bücher ab 12 Jahre • Bücher ab 14 Jahre • Bücher für Mädchen • Bücher für Teenager • Cornelia Funke • Dark • düster • dystopian • Dystopian Fiction • Dystopie • Dystopie Jugendromane • dystopisch • Dystopische Romane • Fantasy • fate • for teens • Freundschaft • für Jugendliche • Future • gender game • Handmaids tale • Handmaid's Tale • Hunger Games • John Greene • Jugendbuch • Junge Erwachsene • Liebe • Love • Maze Runner • New Adult • Panem • Partials • Popular • Romane für Jugendliche • Romantik • Schicksal • Search • Suche • Teenager • YA • ya books • YA Novel • young aduld fantasy • young aduld fiction • Young Adult • Young Adult Fiction • Young Adult Romance • Zukunft |
| ISBN-10 | 3-7325-5519-4 / 3732555194 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-7325-5519-2 / 9783732555192 |
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