Echoes: City of Cobalt by McLaughlin S. J

Author:McLaughlin, S. J. [McLaughlin, S. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-05-20T22:00:00+00:00

The walk back to his office felt longer than it should. Dylan felt ill. Tilly had fallen so far since Dylan last saw her and it hurt Dylan to see her like that. When she arrived at the office, she took a seat on the ground by the door. Tilly might have lied about the time, so Dylan prepared for a long wait. Boone took twenty minutes to arrive.

“What are you doing here?” Boone asked, holding a binder under his arm. He’d gotten old since Dylan first arrived. His back was hunched and his hair thinning.

“Brandt sent me,” Dylan said and stood up.

Boone unlocked his office door. “Step inside with me.”

Dylan went in and stood at attention in front of his desk. Boone sat on the other side, putting the binder into a drawer. His desk had pornographic drawings laying on it. He didn’t bother hiding them.

“What does Brandt want this time?”

Dylan hesitated for a second. “Brandt asked me to deliver a message to Echo,” Dylan said, the words pouring from her mouth in a panic. This isn’t what Brandt asked me to do. Stop it.

“What’s the message? I’ll pass it along.”

You need to tell her that we found her ship. “He said that she’d believe it more if it came from my mouth.”

Boone paused. He stood up and walked out of the room. Dylan followed.

They stopped in front of cell eleven. “Knock in two sets of three and I’ll let you out,” he said and opened the door. “If she holds you as a hostage, we won’t save you.”

Dylan nodded and stepped inside. Echo sat against the back end of the room, her arms shielding the light from her eyes. Once the door shut, Echo lowered her arms and met eyes with Dylan.

“Why are you here?” Echo asked, sitting up straight.

"They wanted me to tell you that we found your ship."

Echo's eyes widened. "What?"

"Once they found it, they scrapped it for parts. Now there’s no way for you to get off this ship even if you escape this cell."

Echo swallowed. Her arms were laying slack and her eyes red.

Dylan raised her hand to knock on the door. That's all you need to say, Dylan thought as she hesitated on knocking. You have nothing more to say, go back to Brandt. "There's something else I need to tell you."

"What could you possibly have to say?"

"When you break free," Dylan said, "Find me and take me with you to your ship."

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