Binding Foxgirls II by Simon Archer

Author:Simon Archer [Archer, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

18

Halit’s office was normally pristine and devoid of clutter, but today there were files everywhere and furniture scattered haphazardly across the room. I could even see dust across the surface of his desk and shelves, illuminated by the sliver of light shining in from the doorway behind me. The lights were off, and the window shade was shut tight.

Halit quickly pulled the door shut behind me when I didn’t do it myself, and the only light that remained was the thin sliver slipped underneath the door frame, and the small bit that leaked in around the window shade. I moved to flip the switch on the wall, but he held up his hands and nearly screamed at me while still managing to keep his voice barely above a whisper.

“No,” he cried, waving his hands in front of me. “I don’t want anyone to know I’m here.”

“Aren’t I the one you’re hiding from?” I asked, arching an eyebrow at him and putting my hands on my hips, imitating Cindra’s characteristic gesture. We were bonded, after all. People who were bonded tended to grow more and more alike over time, kind of like those old married couples with similar facial features.

“You were,” Halit stammered. “I mean… you are.”

“Well, which is it?” I asked, arching another eyebrow at him. He stared down at the darkly carpeted floor.

He didn’t respond.

“What are you afraid of?” I asked, trying to keep my voice as gentle as I possibly could. “Just a day or two ago, you were with us. What changed?”

He still didn’t respond.

I made a decision right then. “Where’s the burner phone, Lucianus?” I asked quietly. “Where d'you get it?”

Halit stared up at me then, his face stricken.

“The what?” he asked, his mouth hanging open, his voice practically blubbering.

“The burner phone,” I said quietly. “Where is it, and how d'you get it?”

His wide eyes and stricken expression told me that I’d made the right call. Revealing that we knew about the burner phone calls revealed that we had the upper hand, at least for now. That we knew more than this secret organization thought we knew. And that just might sway Halit to talk. He was on our side, after all. He was just afraid of the tunnel people more than he wanted to help us. Maybe now he’d be afraid of us, too.

“I… I don’t know what you mean…” he said, but this was the least convincing he’d sounded yet.

“Come on, Prime Minister, you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place, I get that,” I implored him. “But given that, wouldn’t the best thing be to do what’s right? Even though you’re afraid? We know about the people in the tunnels, okay? And we’re going to stop them. Don’t you want to be on the right side when this is all said and done?”

“I… but how…?” he stammered, his mouth still hanging open at me.

“We have our ways, just like I told you,” I said, giving him a thin smile. “Just like we had our ways when we blew up one of their tunnels last night.

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