Author's note: Well anyway, this chapter contains more Max, more running, and more answers to the numerous questions I'm sure you have. I hope I haven't been too confusing, though. If I have, please tell me. I really need to know.
Enjoy!
Max immediately jumped into the air. She always felt safer in the sky. After all, she was designed to fly.
Angie II followed hesitantly, apparently not as accustomed to flight as Max was. Fine with me, Max thought. She didn't fully trust the Angel clone, anyway.
Max looked down, finding no familiar landmarks around the School building. "Are we in Death Valley?" Max asked.
"No," Angie II replied. "We aren't in what used to be California. We're on one of the other islands, near the one you live in. California's been uninhabitable for years."
Max nodded, remembering the stupid underground base they stayed in for the first few years of her daughter's life. Phoenix, Max realized. Where is she? Is she safe?
"Um, what is Angel like?" Angie II asked.
"Excuse me, what?" Max asked.
"Could you tell me about Angel?" Angie II asked again. "I've never met her before, but I've always dreamed of meeting the original."
Max remembered the young Angel, the six-year-old Angel, the girl that she loved the best. So innocent, so perfect, so mischievous. Then she changed. Max didn't know who to talk about, her Angel, or the leader of the world Angel.
"Angel, she's a mischievous girl, partly because she could read minds," Max said.
"That's one trait they didn't let me have," Angie II said wistfully.
They. She's always talking about they, Max thought. "Angel is my favorite member of the Flock, well, other than Fang and my baby," Max said, deciding to talk about the old Angel, the Angel she knew. "Before Phoenix, Angel was my baby."
"Jeb said you were very protective of Angel," Angie II said. "He said the best way to bait your flock was to capture Angel until that wasn't possible anymore. Then the best way was to capture you."
"Wait, capture me?" Max squeaked. "Does that mean...?"
"They're planning on capturing your whole town," Angie II said without hesitation. "Starting with you."
Max couldn't believe what she was hearing. "You mean the Flock are coming. Right now?"
Angie II nodded. "Most likely. It was all part of the plan." She stopped just behind Max. "That is why we must get back to your island as soon as possible. It is about a day's travel by boat."
"Flying is faster," Max said hesitantly. At least she hopped.
"Let's get going then," Angie II said, flying ahead. Apparently, she did know the way.
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