Human For A Day (9781101552391) (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Levine The fence around Dr. Diabolus’s lair is twenty feet tall, electrified and topped with razor wire. I’d expected no less. From one of the many pouches at my belt I pull a pair of acorns and toss them at the base of the fence. I exert my special power. Each acorn immediately sprouts, roots digging through asphalt as the leafy stem reaches skyward. Wood fibers KRACKLE as the stems extend, lengthen, thicken, green skin changing to grayish bark in a moment. Leaves SSHHH into existence ; branches reach out to the neighbor tree, twining themselves into rungs. Before the twin oaks have reached their full height I spring into action, clambering up the living ladder as it grows, creeping along a limb even as it extends over the razor wire. It’s a dramatic, foolhardy move, but I can’t delay—Sprout is in peril! The branch sags under my weight, lowering me to within 10 feet of the ground, and I leap down with practiced ease. Again I concentrate, and the two trees wither away behind me, a gnawed patch of asphalt and a few stray leaves the only sign they’d ever existed.
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