Fire in the Night Sky by M D Cooper & Chris J Pike

Author:M D Cooper & Chris J Pike [Cooper, M D & Pike, Chris J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press
Published: 2020-01-22T16:00:00+00:00

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The serum they give me is working. It keeps me numb and sedated so I can barely think. They’re pumping a lot of medicine through my veins, and I’m doing nothing but losing a lot of time. I’m under constant surveillance.

I have no news about the outside world.

The story my father has been told is a mystery to me. I know they have no intention of letting me speak to him. If he’s even still alive. We may be nothing but collateral damage at this point.

My friends might not be safe. I’m certainly not. I need to break out, but I don’t have many windows of opportunity—only when they move me. It happens three times a day for meals, and I begin to piece a plan together.

But it has to be right. It has to be perfect. I won’t get a second chance.

I sit at a table, hunched over my lunch. It’s the same thing as yesterday—peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a small carton of white milk, and strawberry gelatin with fruit chunks. I slide the plastic fork into the latter like it’s softened butter.

The room isn’t empty. There’s an orderly at the exit, and another man roams the perimeter while a nurse sits in front of me, reading a paperback novel. She yawns before flipping the page.

<Location for superlaser…bag…pulse weapon. Ready for…map? Think answer. Don’t speak.>

I nod. <I’m ready. Try to go slow.>

<Trying…> Annabelle giggles, which is really unlike her.

I wonder if our incomplete merge is having an effect on her too.

A moment later, I see a map. It’s an official blueprint. I quickly find my location in building one. I need to get to the sixth floor to grab my things. If I can grab my weapons and my gear, I can get myself out of here. Then I need to get to building twelve to grab the superlaser.

It all sounds so crazy; I start to wonder if Nick is right. How can any of this be real? I’m wondering which way might be up.

The map in my mind begins to spin. It flashes, and the pain in my head comes in powerful waves that pound against the confines of my skull. I groan, grab my temples, and drop my face down onto the table.

Around me, there’s a commotion, but I can’t focus on it.

I bang my fist on the table, hoping the pain will pass quickly. Warm blood is trickling from my nose when I feel the nurse take me by the shoulders.

“Claire! Claire!” she shouts. “Someone get my bag.”

One of the orderlies swings the door open so hard it slams into the wall, and he runs out of the room. The other orderly is by my side.

“Should I lay her down?”

I grip my metal lunch tray, take a deep breath, and swing its edge up into the orderly’s neck as I rise to my feet, putting all my strength into it.

He falls back, clutching his throat and gasping, then trips and lands on his back.

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