1965-The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber

Author:Fritz Leiber [Leiber, Fritz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781497616974
Google: ONgqAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00J90EZPI
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

General Spike Stevens and Colonel Mab lay side by side a foot or so under the concrete ceiling on the cot-size top of a big steel cabinet. She'd lost her flashlamp, but he still had his strapped to his chest. It shone on a still surface of black water six inches below the top of the cabinet.

They lay very still themselves. Their heads roared from the pressure of the air, which was warm due to the same compression.

There was nothing to look at along the wall-top or on the ceiling, except the grille of a ventilator beyond Colonel Mab's head.

The general said—and his voice was weirdly gruff yet distant—"I don't understand why with this pressure the air doesn't puff up through there—" he pointed toward the ventilator—"and then, finis. Must be a block—maybe some anti-fallout valve got triggered."

Colonel Mab shook her head. She was lying on her back, looking up over her eyebrows. "It isn't easy to see at first," she said softly, "but the ventilator shaft is full of water. It bulges down just a little in the squares in the ventilator, like tiny black pillows or big black fingertips. The water pressure from above and below balance—for the moment, at any rate, and so long as the surfaces in the grille aren't disturbed."

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