She’d only looked at him, a haunting hesitation in her deep brown eyes, the rest of her lovely features smooth and expressionless. The conversation always picked up where they’d left off a month before, after he’d asked her to get him out of the brig. He would close his eyes and see her on the other side of the bars to his cell, sitting on the floor, her hands wrapped around an ankle, chin leaning on her knee. He had long, internal conversations, and he always imagined talking to the same person: Waverly Marshall.
He hated that he’d begun talking to himself, but that was how to survive solitary confinement. He deserved to be here because of who he was. He supposed he deserved imprisonment, not just for the failed mutiny he’d staged against Kieran. If Kieran Alden stayed Captain of the Empyrean, Seth might never get out. Seth had come to accept that it might be a very long time before he was out of the brig. This isolation was part of his punishment, along with the lights being kept on twenty-four hours a day. Sometimes he could catch hints about what was going on from the chatter of his guards, but there was no sound at all. He sat up on his lonely cot in the brig, deep in the bowels of the Empyrean, and rubbed his eyes. Spark is book two in Amy Kathleen Ryan's thrilling young adult science fiction series Sky Chasers.Seth Ardvale wasn’t aware of what woke him he only remembered the fading dream of a rumbling sound that shook his bones. Can they find the true culprit before Kieran locks them away… or worse? Will Waverly follow her heart, even if it puts lives at risk? Now more than ever, every step could bring them closer to a new beginning – or a sudden end. Waverly knows that the situation will only get worse until they can rescue their parents – but how?īefore they have time to make a plan, an explosion rocks the Empyrean, and Seth and Waverly are targeted as the prime suspects. And the one person she wants to believe in is darkly brilliant Seth, the ship's supposed enemy. What happened to the Kieran she thought she knew? Now Waverly's not sure whom she can trust. Forced to leave their captive parents behind on the New Horizon, she's returned only to find that Kieran has become a strict leader and turned the crew against Seth. The memory of home has been keeping her alive for the past months… but home is nothing like she left it. Waverly, Kieran and Seth are in a race against time – and with the future of humanity hanging in the balance, there's no room for mistakes…Īfter a desperate escape from the enemy ship, Waverly has finally made it back to the Empyrean.
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