(The Push Chronicles (Book 2): Indefatigable - Plot & Excerpts
"Well, okay." I rubbed my eyes. "What is it?" "Why did they want to take you alive?" That was something of an elephant in the room that I had been ignoring until I could analyze it more. I hadn't been sure if anyone else had picked up on it, after all, so why start the engine of the worry train yet? "I honestly don't know," I replied, pulling my knees up to my chest. God, I needed a shower. "We could start with the obvious: as the face of the Pushed Rights movement, I would make a great subject for an on-air execution." Medusa's snakes hissed in disgust but the woman herself had a thoughtful look, absently chewing on a claw tip. "No, I don't think ssso." When I glanced at her for clarification, she continued, "Thesse are ultimately Americansss and the public here doesssn't like that sssort of thing, no matter the sssubject. They want their friendsss and neighborsss to join their causse, not denounce it." "You're probably right," I agreed. "That's what really bugs me about the vampire thing. There's no way the Hogs could have or would have voluntarily signed up for that. Most of them are religious nuts after all." "The very idea of turning yourssself into an ssoulesss beast iss anathema to thossse kind of people, yesss," Meds said, crossing herself. "Didn't you sssay that whatever wasss the firsst one was hidden in an arms crate?" "Yeah. We can assume the first ones were turned involuntarily. Maybe all of them. We might want to look at the theory that, no matter what the uniform is, these guys aren't part of the Hogs anymore and are working for a different master." "That'ssss not a bad theory, asssuming whatever they find at the bar backsss it up. It ssstill doesssn't explain why thisss myssteriouss firssst vampire wantsss you alive." I had a shiver run up my spine as a new idea came to mind. "Madre Dios, that's the bad thought face. Ssspit it out, Indy." "Well," I sighed, "you guys are Pushed, right? And, technically, these vampires are Pushed, so we can make a broad assumption that you guys can't be turned. You can't be double Pushed." I raised a hand to halt any interjections. "I know we don't know that for sure, but it makes for a good working theory. Now, it isn't an unknown factoid that I'm not the same as you guys. Any Pushed can tell instantly, after all. What if Mister Number-One-Vampire wants a super-vampire and figures I'm the only one that could fit the bill?" "Either that or he jussst wantsss to hit on you like everyone elsse." Medusa flashed a fanged smirk at me. I rolled my eyes.
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