The Order's Experiments

She flung her eyes open. She felt the sweat on her brow and upper lip. Her mind was frantic. She couldn’t stay here. She sprinted silently over the sleeping trainees and into the bathroom. There, she washed her face in the basin and tried to hold herself, gripping her own arms tightly and heaving with her own breath. She ran water through her hair. She wouldn’t go back to sleep, and she wouldn’t slack out and take Falcain’s drops so she walked out into the hall.

Déjà vu, she thought as she walked through the passageways. She often heard movement and work behind doors as she went. Always somebody awake in this place, she thought. She came to the playground and stood on the edge of the platform. She wasn’t crying or feeling excessively upset, just on edge and a little scared. She closed her eyes, leant forward and felt her body fall off the platform.

The air rushed up to greet her flushed skin. It streamed through her hair and penetrated the soft cotton of her top, waking almost every inch of her skin. Her body had somersaulted when she first fell then settled into a flat out, face down and peaceful sleep pose. She didn’t even open her eyes as she changed.

Her feet came forward under her. She bent in her elbows and readied her body. She manipulated her fall. She slid her body left and right, avoiding beams. It was perfect. She didn’t think, didn’t worry, she was in control. She angled herself into the free-falls, sliding across the metal and being flung back up into the air. Then the chain found her hand and she swung continuing on course. It was like being swept away in a dance. The moves flowed from her like the streaming water from a creek after a good rain. Then she found her last free-fall. She flew silently through the air seeming to defy her body’s weight. Then the last chain came between her fingers and she gripped it as it did a small circle and tried to find its balance again. Her eyes now open she looked out at the view.

The chain looked gold in the light, was smooth and looked polished to shine. She rested her head against it. Reds and golds shimmered through the playground against a backdrop of silvers and blues. It glittered and shone like a city at late dusk. She missed so much, she wished for the sun, the air, the city roof tops, yet her mind was quiet.

She didn’t even glance as Jairus sat on the platform next to her. - pg 111

 - This is My first novel, published mid 2012. A young adult science fiction, action, drama with dystopian themes, it follows a small part of the lives of two teenagers named Sorric Fallen, who usually goes by Fallen, and Kyra, a girl with no last name. They live on the streets, sleeping in alleyways and hiding from police, fighting gangs and struggling for food, until a secret organisation asks Fallen to join them. Kyra was born into this organisation and goes in with him, into a world of fighting and violence and pain. 

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