Morning Rising

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Authors: Samantha Boyette
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long she’d been asleep, but it felt like hours.
Kara listened to another few seconds of murmured conversation
before opening her eyes. The ceiling seemed to be miles above
her.
    Kara took a deep breath and pushed herself
up. Her vision swam wildly as the pain in her head flared again.
She felt hungover, like the events of the morning were only a
dream. Then her eyes drifted to her left wrist where the small
black mark was still visible. Kara ran a soft finger over the
raised mark.
    “Are you alright?” Alster asked as he sat on
the foot stool in front of Kara. He pulled her hand to him and
examined her wrist. “I’m sorry he did this. It wasn’t time for this
yet, you’re not strong enough. She wasn’t strong enough for this.”
Alster glared over his shoulder at Baron.
    “I feel fine,” Kara lied. She felt like four
hamsters were chewing through her brain, but she didn’t want to
listen to Baron and Alster fight. Besides, Alster didn’t get to
decide what she was or wasn’t ready for. His eyes flared at the
tone of her voice, but he didn’t comment.
    “I told you she was ready.” Baron stood at
the counter, grinning.
    “She is as incorrigible as you,” Alster
snapped. “You’re both lucky her mind hasn’t broken from the force
of the memories.” He dropped Kara’s hand.
    “You said it wouldn’t be so bad for her,”
Baron said. He sounded a little less sure of himself; his grin
faded.
    “I lied,” Alster said. “Of course it won’t be
as bad for her as it will be for Morning, but the sheer amount of
memories could have been too much for anyone.”
    “I really am fine,” Kara insisted. Sure, she
felt a bit dizzy and her head was pounding, but she was sure it
would pass.
    “Feel like something to eat?” Baron asked. He
held up a plate with a sandwich on it. “We need to get your blood
sugar up after the shock to your body.”
    “Yeah, that sounds good,” Kara said
gratefully. Baron handed the plate to her. She took a small bite to
find the sandwich was made with something like peanut butter, maybe
almond butter.
    “Fine.” Alster nodded. His lips were pressed
together tight. “Better that she has the memories now I
suppose.”
    “Any reason?” Baron asked. His face was
focused, serious and ready for action.
    “I’ve found Morning. She is at the Mission
with Kade. According to my sources she has been there all night.
Apparently they are putting on quite the show with her.”
    Kara’s stomach churned, but she couldn’t
bring herself to ask what he meant by that.
    “Not usually his place,” Baron said.
    “Well I’m sure the little stunt you two
pulled last night might have had something to do with that,” Alster
pointed out with a glare. “Now we are going to have to take this
fight to him. I really would have preferred you confront him in a
place with a few more accessible escape routes. That is no longer
an option.”
    “I can always transfer them out,” Baron said.
He glanced at Kara. “We grab Dylan and split.” Kara nodded.
    “That may be fine for you, but what of the
people helping you?” Alster asked. “You expect others to risk their
lives for you but leave them with no escape route? Of all the
half-brained plans-”
    “What is the Mission?” Kara asked, almost
afraid to interrupt Alster. She didn’t want to be snapped at, but
she couldn’t listen to him berate Baron any longer.
    “Years ago, Daylanders tried to bring
religion to the people of Inbetween,” Baron answered before Alster
could. “Alster was among them.”
    “It was a noble thought.” Alster sniffed. “We
were all relatively young, none more than sixty or seventy, barely
older than Baron here.” Kara looked wide-eyed at Baron. The idea
that he could be anywhere near that age never crossed her mind. “A
few of us saw the way religion worked in the human world and hoped
that we could perhaps use those same principles to bring values to
the people here. It failed from the start; religion does

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