Chapter 13
APRIL POV
I was turning a wire around trying to make it fit in a plug. Kai was talking to Julie about everything we were doing. I told him all the basics, but he still had questions. When I finally got the wire in the plug I saw the door open. I hoped it wasn't other people who worked here, only us and Yín knew about it.
But it was Cinder, Wolf, and Cress. I learned their names from my visions. When they walked in Julie and Kai stopped talking and Kai hugged Cinder while Wolf and Cress hung out in the corner. I smiled and shook Cress's and Wolf's hand. "Hi, I'm April. Nice to meet you." I said. I wanted to tell them I knew their names, but they'd be freaked out and wouldn't understand.
"You're Thorne's sister?" Wolf asked. Now Cinder and Kai stopped hugging and looked at me.
"Yep, I forgot to tell you that in the comms. You probably thought I was an ex of Thorne and was going to steal him from Cress and get him back in to those annoying habits." I didn't mean to say the Cress part of that.
"How do you know my name?" Cress asked.
"No reason, lets talk about our plan." They still seemed like they wanted to talk about Cress, but I won't let them.
"So," Julie started off. "We have proof that Cinder's the princess, but it's in April's head. So we are inventing a machine that plays the vision in your head. You can think of anything then it will appear."
"How do you know she's the princess?" Wolf asked.
"Duh, April saw."
"But do you believe her?" Cinder asked. "And why would Yín believe her?"
"Should I show them?" I asked Julie.
"Sure." She responded.
I started the vision, it was was of the doctor in Africa when he found the cure of the plague. I did that mostly to inform Kai about the cure.
After it happen they all looked really confused. "I can see anything a Lunar has every seen, and can show it to other people." I said. "It's a much science as the Lunar gift."
"That's why you know my name." Cress said.
"So you can see anything I've ever seen?" Wolf asked.
"Yep, I can even see what shells have seen."
"So, you can see what Levana has done to Scarlet?" Wolf asked hopefully. Cinder looked annoyed at that comment. She probably wanted him to get his act together.
"Yeah, I've been doing research on that in case I ever met you. She's in Winter's zoo and, I'm sorry to say this but her finger was cut off. Winter also has plans on comming you about her. She'll comm you through the port on the ship." After I said this Wolf ran out the door, probably to comm Winter.
"Well," Julie said and pretended that Wolf ran away. "If Cress can help us with this 'project', since April said you're good with computers." She finger quoted "project."
"I'd me happy to help." Cress said smiling.
"Good, then is there anything we need to cover?" Kai asked.
"I don't think so." I responded. I know this wasn't appropriate, but I just realized that Wolf was kind of hot.
"Good, well, I'll be going." Cinder said.
"Me too." And Kai and Cinder left.
"Okay, well Cress, you can be in charge of finding something that can connect to your head, like some medical thing. Then all of us will try to connect it to the mind." I said when a brilliant idea popped in my head. "Then Julie will do a... um..." I looked at port for the right word. It said it right in the medical files. "Julie will do a 1-3-3-3headgraph extension and takeout to my head. If you know how."
"I do know how, why do I need to do it to your head?" She asked.
"Reasons that will help us." I said while giving her a glare that was half fake.
"What is that?" Cress asked.
"You graph out someone's head with the 1-3-3-3 machine. It takes a lot of years to learn how to do in right." Julie responded.
"Why, it sounds just like an X-ray." Cress said. It was so much more than that.
"It's more than that. First you need to learn how to read it and put it on. Putting it on you have to stick things in the person's neck, hands, arms, and around their eyes. It's kind of painful for the person the next day. Then you have to learn how to work the machine and how to graph a mind. It's extremely hard." Julie said.
"Wow, that does sound hard." She seemed amazed that Julie could do that. "What' stone point of it?"
"To check for diseases and understand diseases and the human brain." In responded, finally answering an important question.
Julie looked at me. "You know you'll be in horrible pain for a few days, it was based off second era torture. You won't be able to help us."
"Is that all you really care about, my help?" I asked, kidding of course.
"No, it's just that we're in war and-"
"Don't sound like Kai and that other guy Yín is always complaining about, I'm kidding. It's fine I've had it done before when I was 11. I went to school the next day and I still learned, I just had to be in a wheelchair for a week." I informed them. It was true I hurt a lot, but I still had an okay day at school.
"Sure, if you insist." Julie complained.
"Why did you need it when you were a kid?" Cress asked.
"My parents thought something was wrong with me. I agreed with them since I thought my visions could show in my brain. So asked Thorne to wreck the ports that had all my results on them before the results downloaded. The doctor doing it thought he saw something weird in my head and he thought it was a disease. So he sent me to a doctor to test for diseases but nothing was wrong, so I convinced the doctor his mind was playing tricks on him." I explained remembering that stupid day.
"How'd you convince him?" Julie asked.
"Talked about my crazy grandpa who was a doctor and killed a patient because his mind was playing tricks on him." I responded.
"And that worked?" Julie asked.
"Yep, now can we do the thing, it's starting to get late. We should hurry up." I encouraged her.
"Fine you should change out of your shirt and anything above your waist then put on a hospital gown in room 5 and meet me in room 14. Cress keep working." Julie said and we both walked away to room 5 and 14.
When I got to five I changed and put my shirt on a table in there. I looked at the shirt, it was red and said coca cola on it in a weird font. I forgot where I got it but I remember coca cola was a famous drink in the second era. And apparently it was full of sugar.
I left the room wondering what it tasted like. The sweetest drink we drink now is sugar in our tea. I heard that lots of drinks in coca cola's time were full of sugar.
When I got to room fourteen I lied down on the bed and swallowed the pill Julie gave me that was suppose to make me sleep. I immediately fell asleep and dreamed of nothing when what felt like seconds I woke up. I was covered I bandages and in a different room then where I was operated in. I looked out the window, the sun was still low in the sky but in the west. It was already the next day? Those pills do knock you out.
I got up and feel a sharp pain in my head. Then I realized I was in room five with my shirt placed just how I placed it on the table. I changed back into the shirt and left the room. After a few steps I was already grabbing the wall and biting my lip so hard because of the pain.
I made my way to room seven where I could keep on working. When I was at room 6 (which felt like miles away but was only a few feet) I collapsed and hit my body hard against the hard floor. I was in so much pain I needed that pain pill they gave me when I was eleven. I got back up when I saw Thorne and Cress come down the hall.
I was only half way done with getting up when they saw me and both helped me up. "We should probably get you a wheelchair like you said you used when you were a kid." Cress said and walked away leaving me in Thorne's arms.
"Hey." I said and smiled.
"So, you love me and forgive me." He smirked.
"I should've never sent that comm." I kidded and laughed. "I miss being a little kid with you always getting in trouble."
"I miss just getting in trouble, not going to jail." He looked at me. "How have your visions been?" He whispered.
"Fine Cress, Cinder, and Kai know about them. And Yín and I girl I'm working with."
"Good, Cress talked to me about the plans for a few hours last night." My brother really seemed to like her. He smiled when he said her name.
"She's cute, and a good match for you."
"Oh, I hate your visions." He gave me and funny face, but stopped when Cress came out with a wheelchair.
They helped me in and pushed me into the lab where Julie was asleep on the floor. I giggled with my hand over my mouth, but it still woke her. Her face was red when she saw us there. "I wanted to be here when April woke." She said when she dusted herself off and got up.
"Well I should leave you girls to your work, bye." Thorne said as he backed away and left.
"So, the graphs." I said.
"You do have an extra part in your brain. It has something connected to the Lunar gift. I know this is really gross, but I graphed a dead thaumaturge brain I found, since Lunars won't let us know anything about their minds." She pulled out three pieces of paper all with graphed brains. "The first brain is April's, the second is the thaumaturge's, and the third is a normal earthen's brain. You can see April's brain is perfectly normal, except that weird string with the round chunk of brain. I think the chunk is how she gets the visions then the string is how she sees it and shows it to others." Julie explained.
"Wow." That was all I could say.
"Yeah, it's amazing." Cress said staring at the papers.
"Yeah and I think I can make it even better." Julie said with a smile. I was already excited.
"How?" I asked really wondering. I never thought about how amazing this gift was.
"I can put some of the special parts of the Lunar brain in you. It will make these visions so much more better and will give you more knowledge." Julie explained.
"I'm up for it." I told her.
"Good, this will help our project. We need the DNA of a Lunar with a strong gift. If I apply it correctly it will give you their sense of feeling other's bioelectricity and powers related to that." Julie told us.
"How do we get started?" I asked eager to know.
"We need a strong Lunar's DNA like I said." Julie responded.
"Like Levana's?" Cress asked.
"Or Cinder's." Julie said with a big grin on her face.