Disclaimer: I own Hawk and X. That is all. All else belongs to James Patterson.
Maximum Ride: (insert secondary title here)
Prologue
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X replayed the footage for the hundredth time. The young bird girl flared hawk-like wings and swooped majestically across the grainy screen. X's heart pounded with excitement as she watched the bird girl wheel and loop across the sky. Saliva gathered in the corners of her mouth.
"Mine," she hissed. "All. Mine."
Her head swivelled around suddenly. A second later, the door banged open and a man entered. He let a metal tray drop to the ground, scattering the dry bread and bottle of water that were its contents across the cement floor.
"Food," he said unnecessarily as X tucked the tiny video camera into the front of her jeans. The man never took notice as he turned away and slammed the door behind him.
As soon as he was gone, X leapt upon the bread like a hyena. She shovelled it down, coughing when she inhaled the dry crumbs. The bottle of water had rolled against the only furniture in the room--a metal toilet tucked into a back corner--and she retrieved it, stabbing a hole in the side near the bottom with a long claw. She drained the full bottle in a single draught.
The next several minutes were spent as she choked on the too-sudden intake of food and water. When she recovered, she sat again in the middle of the room with her back to the door and took the video camera from her jeans. She flipped open the screen with unwieldy talons and stabbed carefully at the Play button.
Her golden eyes lit gleefully as the bird girl once again dived across the screen.
Tidbit:
Maximum Ride: Fang is due to come out in March of 2010. I'm super duper excited.