CONTROL
by Lydia Kang
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Kang, Lydia.
control / by Lydia Kang. pages cm
Summary: In 2150, when genetic manipulation has been outlawed, seventeen-year-old Zelia must rescue her kidnapped sister with the help of a band of outcasts with mutated genes.
ISBN 978-0-8037-3904-8 (hardcover)
[1. Science fiction. 2. Genetic engineering—Fiction. 3. Kidnapping—Fiction.
4. Sisters—Fiction. 5. Orphans—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.K127644Co 2013
[Fic]—dc23 2012032617
Printed in the United States of America
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CHAPTER 1
Maybe if I move a little slower, I can prevent the inevitable. Time will freeze and it’ll be easy to pretend we’re not moving again. I don’t want to budge from the roof of this cruddy building.
The door to the stairwell creaks open. Dad sees the lump of me at the edge of the roof, unmoving. Dark clothes, dark frizzled hair. I am depression personified.
“Here you are, Zelia. I told you to stay off the roof,” Dad says, his voice scratchy with fatigue.
I jerk to my feet. “Sorry.”
“Magpod traffic is about to get bad. Let’s go.”
“Okay.” I cross the gravel roof quickly, trying to catch his shadow slipping down the stairwell to our apartment. Our old apartment. This place is nothing to me anymore. Dust bunnies lurk in the angles of the hallways, kicked around by the maelstrom of moving activity.
Inside my small bedroom, I push my duffel bag to the door. Just one bag, crammed to the brim. It’s not much. After years of moving every ten months, you give up amassing anything larger than your fist. Basically, heart-sized or smaller is all I can take.
Around the empty room, remnants of the past haunt the surfaces. Rings from juice bottles cover the desk; pictoscreens glow in big white rectangles where photographs have been deleted. I still had eight weeks of rental left on those images—the latest telescope images of the M-16 nebula, beaches and mountains from the twentieth century untouched by humans. So pretty. So gone.
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