Blind Sighted: Navigator Book Two by Tanner SD

Author:Tanner, SD [Tanner, SD]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Trapped in the city (Shirley)

Holding her hands over her face served two purposes. It protected her eyes from the insects and dust in the air, and it also helped her ignore what was happening to her. She and Clark had always flown first-class whenever they’d travelled, and her current method of transport didn’t please her. The unpleasant creature had its black arms and legs wrapped around her chest and hips, leaving her legs dangling awkwardly behind her. It didn’t fly exactly, but was gliding through the air, somehow using its complex webbed wing structure to catch gusts of wind.

Daring to peek at the ground below, all she saw was an aerial view of the desert. She wasn’t good at judging distances, but the scenery reminded her of what she would see from a plane before it disappeared above the cloud line. If the creature dropped her, she would surely join Clark on the other side. Growing bored with her flight, she wondered whether she would really meet Clark after she’d died, and decided they would only argue if she did.

Eventually the creature began to descend, and she peeked again to see where it was taking her. Surrounded by small and identical bumps, a huge pyramid-shaped dome rose out of the desert. With their thick bodies and skinny black legs, the creatures moving on the ground looked even more insect-like. They were scurrying in and out of the top of each of the small mounds, and hundreds were scuttling across the pyramid. It reminded her of an ant nest she’d seen in her garden as a child, and she didn’t like it.

At the top of the pyramid, sunk deep into the middle of it, was a cavernous black hole. Without warning, her pilot plunged into a downward spiral, straight into the black pit. Covering her face and expecting to crash, she squealed in terror. When the impact never came, she peeked through her fingers again, and finally felt something solid under her feet.

To her surprise, she was standing so deeply inside the pyramid the entrance was only a small opening above her head. The cavern was round, and at least the width of her five-bedroom house, but where she would have expected it to be dark, it glowed brightly. Spinning around, she tried to find the source of the light, and found that the walls and floor were glowing. Lifting her feet, the track shoes she’d stolen from the penthouse apartment clung to the ground, and she looked down in surprise. The floor was sticky with a substance that reminded her of the sap from a tree.

A static sounding screech came from below and knowing the noise well, she flinched in fear. Appearing to have completed its mission, her pilot lifted into the air and disappeared through the hole above her head.

Unsure what to do next she took a tentative step. Her shoe lifted with a slight tug and she walked across the cavern, looking for another way out of the room.

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