Earth by Jae Vogel

Author:Jae Vogel [Vogel, Jae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, urban
ISBN: 9781532829093
Amazon: 1532829094
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-04-19T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Other than the light filtering under the door, Lilly and Dion found themselves in a dark, empty chamber. Lilly couldn’t see a thing, but she heard Dion grumble as he bumped into a wall.

“Hand me the pack,” he told Lilly. “I need to light that lantern on top of the helmet.”

“I watched Hobbs do it too,” she said and placed the pack down on the cool floor. “I think I can light it as well as you.”

She unzipped the pack and felt around inside for the helmet with the lantern attached. She carefully lifted it out and found the ignition switch. Just as Hobbs showed them, she depressed the button to the count of three and heard a pop as the lamp became illuminated.

Now there was light inside the chamber. Lilly place it on her head and tightened the strap over her chin. She carefully adjusted the flame until the heat of the lamp was down and the chamber was fully exposed.

“Hey!” Dion said and raised his hands as she swung her head in his direction. She realized the lamp had blinded him and turned her head in a different direction. She reached back in the pack and handed him the second hard hat. He too placed it on his head and tightened down the strap. They turned to look at the corridor in front of them.

It continued in a downward slope to the subbasement, but they were only able to see part of it as the light limited what could be viewed. Dion shrugged and began to push on the handle of the floor polisher as they walked down the smooth concrete ramp, which took them deeper into the home of the ghouls.

“They’ll know we’re coming just from that light,” she said to him in a low voice. So far, they had seen stonewalls and smooth floor, but nothing else. The corridor was void of any kind of mice or rats, for which Lilly was thankful.

It was also very quiet.

She had no idea what to expect when they reached the subbasement, but it shouldn’t be very long. The mall only had two basements and they’d entered on the ground floor. There was the possibility that this corridor’s length didn’t correspond to the elemental lengths, but Lilly didn’t want to think about that. She assumed the passage would be the same length from the surface to the subbasement as if they’d entered using a normal stairs. They continued their movement down to the ghoul level.

A few more minutes of travel and they were in front of a pair of doors that read “Subbasement”.

Dion took a minute to stare at it. “Pretty much sums it up. Let’s see what’s on the other side.”

Before they reached the door, it swung open to reveal the ghoul cleaners from the pharmacy. There were twelve of them this time and each one carried a club and wore mirrorshades.

Lilly shined the light from her lantern on them, but it made no difference. They stood there, patted their clubs, and stared at the two interlopers.

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