Escaping Infinity by Richard Paolinelli

Escaping Infinity by Richard Paolinelli

Author:Richard Paolinelli [Paolinelli, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-14T00:00:00+00:00


THIRTEEN

The one thing about the way we were going was that it made me understand why all of the other people in here had seemingly surrendered themselves to this place. If one set aside the horror of being forever trapped within its walls, and focused instead on its Garden of Eden-like enticements, it was actually a very great temptation.

I would be lying if I told you that the thought of staying in this bed for all of eternity next to this woman and forever forsaking the real world outside wasn’t something that I could easily do and probably never regret. I suppose some of the others, and quite possibly every single one of them when it came right down to it, had faced this moment of decision in their own way and found the temptation too great to resist, if they’d even consciously realized they’d made the decision at all.

But as tempting as this particular Garden of Eden was to me, it wasn’t the world we’d been born to, it wasn’t where we belonged. And it was that sense of being out of place which was why we had to break free of this trap and soon. Meaning we had some important issues to work out.

Which would be very hard to do with Liz’s wandering hands serving as one of those quite numerous and very enticing distractions. I was about to remark that sixteen decades of celibacy certainly seemed to be an extremely effective aphrodisiac. Then I thought better of it and tossed it in the mental wastebasket where idiotic flippant remarks like that belonged and got to work on what needed our attention.

“That door out there,” I said aloud with a quick nod of my head toward the faraway wall beyond the back door of my room. “Even if it isn’t the direct exit out of here, it may eventually lead us to the way out. It’s important enough to have a very forceful deterrent standing guard over it so there’s something behind it that’s worth trying for at the very least.”

“That makes sense,” she said. “But just how are you planning to get past that monster out there? As far as I know, this place doesn’t have an armory. Not that I think there’s a gun big enough to scratch him, much less slow him down.”

And there was that out-of-time displacement again. She’d missed so much of history being trapped within these walls for so long. The Civil War was still a couple of years away when she’d come here. While the munitions of her time might not have worked on that beast out there, the human race had done a pretty good job at improving its weaponry. A nuclear device—while likely overkill—would do the job so I was sure that there were a few weapons of my time that would put him down for the count.

Unfortunately, none of them were handy and I very much doubted I would find any material inside here to throw together anything stronger than a flyswatter.



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