I spend every ounce of my being
into keeping this energy out of me, and then it stops. Just like that, the cycling is over. I open my eyes as Chaud is removing the
needles from my neck. I can smell
whiskey from his breath, as he continues to remove everything that connected me
to that energy source. As mad as I am at
him, I have no energy left to argue against his releasing me and just lie there
until he has finished removing everything that confines me.
As I
stand, the room begins to blur so I force myself to keep steady. I refuse to show any weakness around him, I
have to get out of here first. I follow
Chaud from this inner chamber outside the building, which seems surrounded by
many people just casually walking away without a care in the world and beeping
to themselves. We pass right through
them and I can hear them more closely.
They aren't making beeping sounds, they really are beeping! I continue moving alongside Chaud heading back
to that familiar SUV, Eva is sitting in front next to Thalia. I climb in to the SUV and relax back against
the floorboards. I cannot bear to look
at these people yet, I do not know what I am going to do. They did come back for me, which should mean
something but they are at fault for this happening to begin with.
I hear
explosions outside of the SUV, they are not very loud. I slowly peak up to see the people exploding
one by one far back in the city as we are driving away toward a mountain not
far from the town. I lay back down to
rest on the floorboard as they stop near the mountains. There’s a lot of talk of nanites, tiny little
robots that Chaud can program through his motorcycle (which wow, transforms
into this walking suit) to do whatever he needs. Apparently there a bunch of untapped nanites
in this mountainside that Chaud is programming to turn into some kind of base.
While
Chaud is working on setting these microscopic robots to work, Thalia comes back
from having been talking to herself, presumably using her communicator I
suppose to talk with someone.
“I just
got done talking with Shadow Core,” she begins.
“They did not know anything about that town we found Katherine in. They said that there is a town north from
here but that they are not allowed to touch it but if we want to check it out
on our own…”
“Well,
let’s find ourselves a bit of Barney then,” answers Chaud.
Everyone
starts piling back into the SUV, Chaud on his motorcycle. I guess we are heading to this town to see
what these Shadow Council people won’t go near.
If the Shadow Council will have something to do with Sophie, I do not
think that I will want much to do with this town. Well, maybe this will be a good opportunity
to return them all the favor of being captured, I still think that I can use
them to get as close as I need to Shadow Council.
The
vehicle begins to pull to a stop so I pull myself up from the floor to climb
out of the SUV and look out at what we are facing. A concrete wall wraps around to the height of
maybe twenty feet with about a ten feet gap with four men at each side of the
opening. Two of the men are upright and
scanning around; two are hunched on all fours and appear to be sniffing the air
for something.
“Kill C.A.” rasps Ravager and
suddenly one of the hunched men attacks the other, the two standing men run
over to see why they are attacking each other.
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