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/> “Because you wouldn’t’ve had anything to do, and you seemed tired!” said Alexus. “And anyways, I need to know: are you staying in the capital hideout?” The woman actually looked hopeful, though for what I couldn’t imagine.
I rolled my eyes. “Until I get sick of all the ice.”


Three

“I’ve uploaded fake files of you to the main database,” said Alexus as we walked briskly out of the stadium. “You will show up as Crypia Tin, since I didn’t know your last name.” She looked at me pointedly, but continued before I could get a word in.
“You came from a hideout up north, no family, and you do two things-You are a Renaissance Recreation Engineer and an amateur figure skater.” She paused. “Do you know how to figure skate?”
“No,” I said, thinking that that would be the end of it. How wrong I was.
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“Hurry up!” exclaimed Alexus, surefooted-ly heading to wherever they were going.
I jogged after her, panting under the weight of my “new” stuff. I’d given up trying to keep track of the twists and turns, only trying to keep up with Alexus.
Suddenly, she stopped. “Here we are!” she exclaimed, sounding as excited as a child in a room of replicating candy. I looked at the room we’d come to. It was about the size of the main room of a house, but looked like a natural cave. I smiled. Traditional underground was my court.
“What do you think?” asked Alexus, sounding again like the afore mentioned child.
Looking around, I saw that the walls of the cave were coated in a layer of clear diamond, underneath of which was black stone. Stalactites and stalagmites made a path down the sunken floor to the cave, where a frozen waterfall forever fell into a naturally beautiful frozen pond.
“It’s beautiful,” I said. “Why are we here?”
“So I can teach you how to ice-skate,” said Alexus. She tackled me before I was halfway out the door.
“Get…off…me!” I grunted, beating at any part of her I could find.
“No!” she exclaimed. She hauled me up, and I saw the way we’d come was now smaller than a flash drive. “I need you to learn ice-skating!”
“Why?” I snapped. “I don’t even like it! Why didn’t you consider the fact that you know next to nothing about me when signing up for the position of entertainer!”
Alexus looked stunned, and…hurt. She looked away, pulling a veil of hair (which, along with her skin, was getting darker by the second) in between us. “I wanted company,” she said sheepishly.
The way she said it made me instantly guilty. “I…-”
“No,” she said. “Don’t say anything. I shouldn’t have done it in the first place.” She turned around and sped through the entrance, which grew to allow her, then it closed until it was just three feet in diameter.
I sighed. The first day here and I’d already offended someone. ‘Might as well try.’ I had nothing to lose, and I owed Alexus that much. ‘I really shouldn’t be getting attached to her.’
Groaning, I forced the skates onto my feet, taking my first wobbly steps out onto the ice. There was nothing to hold onto, so, naturally, I fell.
Getting to my feet, I heard someone laugh. Thinking it was Alexus, I began to tell her off, but the words died in my throat when I saw it wasn’t Alexus, but the same boy who had been in Alexus’s lab earlier. “What are you doing?” he asked.
“What does it look like?” I snapped.
“Well to me,” he said, stepping out onto the ice. I noticed that his high-tops had blades attached to them. “It looks like your wobbling and falling on your butt. But, considering I just saw Alexus run by-” I winced. “-I’d say you were trying to teach yourself to ice-skate.”
“Yes,” I said. “I am. So if you don’t mind…” I turned around and stomped to the miniature space behind the waterfall. I jumped when I saw him skate smoothly in through the other opening.
“Actually, you look like you need help,” he said.
“Then wouldn’t Alexus be the best one to help me?” I asked, strangely not wanting him to stay.
“Yeah,” he said slowly. “But she has a competition in one hour, which is why, I guess, she rushed out of here so quickly.”
“Well…” I said, trying to make myself agree with him. I’d never been good at lying.
“What did you do?”
“I might of...in some way...maybe...offended her.” The last part was mumbled.
“You did what!” He skated back out of the small space, swearing under his breath. I skated after him, trying not to think about falling. When I caught up I punched him in the arm. He swung around, glaring at me. Suddenly I felt very small. “What was that for?”
“Two things. I hate people swearing, and what did I do that was so bad?”
He clenched and unclenched his fist, eyes smoldering with fury. “Ice skating is big here-extremely big. Alexus’s performance depends on the mood she’s in, more so than anyone else. Mostly-psychologically-because of something that relates to your dad! And-”
“Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,” I said. “What does this have to do with my dad?”
He looked at me strangely, and then something seemed to click in his head. “She didn’t tell you.” He smiled, looking bemused. “Then she actually wanted to...”
I was about to explode from curiosity. “What do you mean!”
He jumped, seeming to have forgotten I was there. “Looks like if you don’t find a way to make it up to Alexus, then you will ruin the first real friendship that you have here.”
“How?” I asked, furiously irritated with the boy.
“I can’t tell you,” he said simply.
“What!” I exclaimed, loud enough to shake the smaller stalactites. Two years worth of bottled up emotion came crashing down through that simple word. “You dragged this whole thing out, telling me it was my father’s fault, whom I’m sure you don’t know personally, and your not going to tell me!” I raised my foot, making as if to hit him, but drove the blade into the waterfall, smiling savagely as it shattered.
Jonah blanched at my display of brutality, but quickly concealed it. “Well someone has a temper.” He skated toward the entrance.
“Wait!” I clambered after him. “Can’t you tell me anything?”
He turned around, spraying ice bits in a wide arc. None got on his black jeans and sweater. “If you apologize,” he said testily.
I ground my teeth. He deserved one, but I didn’t want to give it. “Sorry,” I said. “Now spill.”
“Impatient, too,” he muttered. I glared at him. He sighed. “Your father was called here, because back then he’d been known for coming up with the cure for the common cold. Another disease was going around, nicknamed the Morgue Magnet.” He sat down on a rock cliff, and I decided to sit down beside him. “The disease was unnoticeable until the last few weeks you have to live. When that time comes, your skin will start changing color to conceal you with your surroundings, and you start sounding like a snake. This is to hide your body when you die. Guess who was the first victim.”
My eyes widened, thinking back to when I thought Alexus’s skin changing was just a trick of the light. “You mean Alexus is going to die?” I squeaked.
“No,” he said. “Your dad cured the disease, but the side affects never went away for Alexus. He theorized that it was because of the cold of the ice rinks, which, as you know, Alexus spent so much time in. She told my sister that she was okay that the side affects didn’t go away, but I think differently.” His eyes widened, and he swore again. I scowled. “My sister!” He took off running toward the entrance, hopping lithely through it. I clambered after him.
I didn’t ask questions, didn’t even know if I was supposed to be following him. All I did was throw off my skates besides his discarded ones and try to keep up.

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Publication Date: 10-29-2009

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