(eng) Patty Jansen- Ambassador 02 by Raising Hell

Author:Raising Hell [Hell, Raising]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 12

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I WENT to the bedroom and wrestled myself into my second suit. I checked the key in my pocket before I did up the fastenings. Then I strapped on my belt and bracket with the gun after checking the charge level. Then the tanks and that hot helmet. I slipped the breathing mask over my face and turned on the cool air supply, something I’d sworn not to do indoors, but I was so damn hot. It was night, too, and I had no idea how long it would be before I could get to my adaptation medication.

Back in the hall, Sheydu crouched next to the door with the spindly spider thing that Veyada had also used in the bathroom and whose function wasn’t quite clear to me. When I came in, she looked up, rose and took something from her pocket.

“Take this.” She handed me a parcel in waxy paper with something in a clear bag stuck to it. That piece of electronics I recognised: a detonator.

“You know what to do with it?”

“Think so.” Gamra had made me do a weapons and self-defence course.

Explosives were for getting oneself out of locked rooms.

“Put it away somewhere safe.”

I opened the fastening to my suit and slid the parcel inside my inner pocket of my outer suit, separated from the key by a mere layer of fabric.

Sheydu sat down facing the door, poking some very thin and stiff wires between the door and the frame. Veyada stood behind her, leaning against the wall. He had unclipped his gun from his arm bracket and held it, half-raised pointed at the door. He gestured for me to stand behind him.

I pointed at my own gun.

He gestured leave it. Quite relaxed.

Sheydu clipped on an earpiece, connected some wires and listened. Then she said something in code. She jumped to her feet and retreated to the other side of the door. There was a brief fizzing sound and the door popped open.

Someone outside gave a surprised exclamation.

Veyada jumped through the doorway and fired once, twice, three, four times in rapid succession.

Sheydu calmly swiped her gear off the floor and stuffed it into her pockets.

“Quick, get out of here.”

We ran out, Sheydu leading the way, then poor old me, sweating, struggling with all my gear, then Veyada. I spotted a couple of people on the ground. I hoped Veyada had used the stun setting, but knew he likely hadn’t. The dealing had well and truly begun.

We ran down the corridor the same way we had come in, around the corner, another corner and up a flight of stairs. The gear was heavy. I didn’t seem to have put on the tank properly, because it bumped against my back. I was so hot and felt sick. Dizzy, in a just-go-away-and-let-me-die-here kind of way.

By the time we were on top of the stairs, I was ready to black out.

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