Arcadian's Asylum by James Axler

Author:James Axler,
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven

Doc was glad to see the last of Andower—or at least, what he hoped would be the last—but was less than pleased when the sec patrol that had come for him took him straight to the baron. He should have figured that this would happen, but in his relief to be free of the horrors he had seen, he didn’t think beyond getting out of this sector as quickly as possible.

The clean lines and tidy surrounds of the buildings took on a sinister mien when considering what went on behind those blank windows, and it was with a shudder that Doc allowed himself to be led away. The sec party surrounded him, so that he was enclosed on all sides by black-clad men armed with blasters.

The sector in which he had found himself was one that was unnaturally quiet. Distant sounds echoed across the early morning skies, but the area in which they walked was silent. “As the grave” was a phrase that popped unbidden into Doc’s head as he walked. The sec men had resisted all attempts at conversation, leaving him with nothing but his thoughts. And they were poor company, returning as they did to the things he had seen. The bland facades of the buildings in this sector now resembled nothing so much as mausoleums to his troubled vision.

They reached a boundary line. Fencing, and a small patch of clear ground between the two. It wasn’t long past dawn, and the regularly spaced and freestanding lamps that lit this no-man’s land had now been extinguished. The low-level buildings beyond were still sleeping, with only the bare minimum of sound coming from their midst. It was too early for the day’s work to have truly begun, and too late for the sounds of night. Yet the noise was still in stark contrast to the sector he left behind.

It was hard to tell which of the social models was used in this sector. The buildings gave away no secrets, and there were only a few people to be seen. They eyed Doc and his sec guard with some suspicion, only too glad to slink into shadows until he had passed.

The same was true of the next sector into which they passed, only now—as time was progressing—there was more activity. The people here seemed to move freely, and apart from the fact they were a little more poorly dressed than those in the central sector dealing with trade and ville administration, there seemed to be nothing to distinguish them.

Andower’s sector was set apart by the extreme nature of the experimentation, and its clinical nature. That was fairly obvious. Yet for the life of him, Doc could see little in the way of obvious differences between the two sectors he had just traversed, and the one in which the baron lived. And how, indeed, could he reconcile this with the sector in which he and his companions had entered the ville?

Doc had hoped to get some answers with his

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