Lisa woke up to the sight of her father at the other side of the room. She was actually awake now and the minute Xavier noticed his daughter was awake he rushed to her bedside. Lisa looked confused and slightly disoriented and she had to get her father's help to be able to sit down properly. The minute Xavier was able to get her seating upright he released a relieved sigh. Finally, she was awake. He could tell Lisa would have a lot of questions to ask so before he was barraged by an onslaught of inquiries, he pushed some water into her hands first. "Drink some water before you ask me any questions, you've been out cold for days now and we haven't been able to get anything into you." Lisa nodded, twisting the cap on the bottle and taking a huge chug of it. She could also tell that something had happened to her but she was still feeling disoriented, she couldn't get one single thought to last in her mind for long. It scared her. She handed the bottle back to her father and sta
"I know we said nothing is wrong with the ice core in you, but I think we might be wrong."Xavier felt like he was hearing static noise. There was nothing anyone would be able to tell him now that would actually help him dullen the apprehension he was feeling.Con was making sense, which was bad, so much so that it made him feel like screaming."Are you listening to me Xavier?""Yeah, I am."Con nodded and cleared his throat again."Lisa might not be totally out of the danger zone too. There's something else that might be in her and it's a cause for concern."Xavier turned his head to look at Con and he cocked an eyebrow up."Are you referring to the AI system she fused with?"Con nodded and Xavier sighed. His cane was already in his hand anyways so he simply tapped it on the floor and activated the AI once more.Sure enough, the blooming rose came into view and with it, the AI system also came alive. "It fused back with my cane the moment Lisa woke up. I think she's safe now."Con n
For the rest of the week there was an unusual silence in Xaveir's home and Con found it oddly relaxing. He and Jane were yet to talk about what they had to talk about, and he knew they had to talk about it.Jane on her own didn't seem to be in too much of a hurry to have that talk with him. She just seemed happy and content. It sort of made him speculate and then get scared immediately after.Con could feel his apprehension mounting again and he cleared his throat. There was definitely something wrong with him. If Jane was happy then he should just be happy for her and make peace with himself, what business of his was it if she was happy because of someone else or not?If she had found another man who was making her giggle as much as she did then he would only have to be happy for her. Nothing more, and nothing less."Thinking about Jane again?"Xavier watched as Con almost jumped out of his seat and he chuckled. The steaming mug of tea in his hands warmed his cold palms and anyone lo
"I've found something that can help with your speed and agility."Jake stared at the man that walked around in the room he was in."I could also help with that arm you seem to have lost. I've noticed you can't control it properly and it's pitiful, to be honest."Jake could feel even more confusion setting in the more he stared and he couldn't make any sense of it. He had been brought in here by one of the attendants. One of the huge ones that he couldn't refuse and that had been one thing that made him have a bad feeling about this place.The sights were beautiful, but there was something about this place that he couldn't put off."Are all these things going to cost me anything?"The man turned to face him and Jake noticed the vein-like lines pulsing around his skin again. Not just his skin but every part of his body. The man was tall, easily his height, he looked younger than someone who had given birth to a son who was no less imposing than he was. This man looked lithe and young,
Con sat up in his chair the moment he saw Aubrey and Jane approaching him. He could already tell that they would have something to say, but yet confronting the both of them together had become something of an awkward matter for him now. There was the issue of their marriage at hand, something that just felt like very bad oversight now that he thought of it properly, because what sort of person was he immediately going for two women in the midst of all the confusion they were embroiled in.He kept on having these strange dreams and visions.Xavier now had a malfunctioning ice core.Lana was back but her skin was slightly purple now, and she wouldn't say a word about where she had been before they found her in the cave. They all had a million and one things to ask her but the lady for all her calmness didn't seem like she would be inclined to answer any of those questions if they were thrown at her.It was all confusing, and there was the itch that he always got at the back of his neck
"My Lab's been swiped."Aubrey had barely gotten a word out of her mouth before Lisa barged into the room and made her pronouncement. Con blinked and looked at the two ladies in front of him"I'm not the only one who heard that right?"Aubry tried to hide her smile but failed and had to shake her head. They had all heard Lisa's declaration, and usually it would not have been anything that called for laughter, but this time it did, if not laughter then at least some small amount of mirth.Aubrey turned to look at the fifteen year old and cocked an eyebrow up at her."Can you say that again Lisa? It's a bit hard to believe what you just said and I'm not sure if I heard right.""I said my lab's been swiped, is that what you heard?"Aubrey nodded and Lisa looked away."Then you heard right. My lab has been swiped. I don't know who did it."Con frowned again and cocked his head to the side. Lisa seemed serious and maybe he was the one who was currently behind on the new way of saying thing
Con shook his head to clear the incoming confusion he was about to feel. "I thought you also agreed that there was no cure.""I never said there was no cure. I only agreed to my father's speculation for now. That didn't mean I wasn't trying on my part to save his life"Anyone listening to Lisa could tell she loved her father more than any of them could imagine. Xavier had told them not to burden themselves with looking for a cure, because of Lisa especially. He had known she would keep on searching for one until she got it and that was what he was scared of.Lisa had agreed to his terms but never stopped searching for them. She even went as far as taking her father's personal copies of his research..... Con could feel his brain hit on something here. Something that Lisa Frost was possibly keeping away from them."Is there something you aren't telling us about all this Lisa?"Jane's laugh cut through the silence that had fallen across the room and Lisa turned red. The older lady simpl
Con could already tell he was doing something he shouldn't when he sat down in the room. They had all decided that they would inform Xavier of Lisa's small misfortune later. The logic behind that was because they had no idea where he was and even if they did, Xavier wasn't feeling well right now.The ice core could act up and he would freeze them over under its effects. There was no way to counter that effect and even if they did, Lisa had admitted to tampering with her father's records. Xavir would not be too happy when he learnt of that.So to settle it all they had decided to do it over dinner. Or rather Aubrey and Jane had decided, he had only stood there as rigid as a plank and he had said nothing.One thing from Lisa's confession had struck him as odd, and that was the fact that Xavier didn't want her to know who her mother was.He could imagine how Lisa would feel. He had spent most of his life living like he didn't have a father. In his opinion, he didn't really need one, but