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Chapter 2

So, there it was. A new plan, a new course of action. We were going to Maine, and since it was December, it was probably buried under twenty feet of snow. It would be a nice change after all this hot weather.

Providing, you know, if Ari didn't show up and ruin everything by killing us on the way there.

But who knows? Maybe Erasers didn't like cold weather. Maybe my chip would freeze over and stop working when we hit the blizzards. Yeah right.

I told them to pack up and we were up in the air five minuets later. I decided to head east till we hit the shore, and then make our way north along the coast. That way we'd have a better chance skirting around Ari and Jeb and their pack of bloodthirsty Erasers.

You can't run from your destiny, Max.

Great, my voice was back. I hoped it wouldn't bug me all the way to Maine.

Your destiny is apart of you, it defines who you are, down to your very soul. Rejecting it will only make things worse.

Yeah, make things worse for you!

It quieted down after that, maybe I had made it mad. Ooh, too bad.

We were 600 feet above a lush pine tree forest, and the only thing for miles around was open, unpolluted sky. I breathed in deeply.

Ahhhh. No fumes, no smog, just clean air. It was a wonderful smell.

I could also smell my flock and in what positions they were flying in around me. That still surprised me, I mean I had never been able to smell their traces before.

Maybe this was a new skill. Lucky Me.

Fang was about ten feet below me, Nudge was to my left and Angel was on the other side. Iggy and Gazzy were behind me. Yep, just me and my flock, sailing over the world, one continent at a time. Hunted by evil beasts.

I know it's short, but I didn't have a lot of time.