Fireborn: Embers of Atlantis by Tracy Hickman

Author:Tracy Hickman [Hickman, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781616611002
Google: RNKnuAAACAAJ
Goodreads: 11013526
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Published: 2011-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Chunnel

TC: 00:27:33:15 GALLOWS, ETHAN (RAWNFB) [Hindsight™ Real-time Video Documentation Software. Under License.]

LN-7 CLASSIFIED ULTRA / NEED TO KNOW

No video. Audio track continuous. Sounds of unidentified persons screaming. Loud scraping and banging sounds as the camera is jostled.

“Oh God! Oh God!” [Unidentified A]

Gallows: “Shut up, Farben!”

Farben: “Please, my leg...oh God, my leg.” [ID A link positive: Farben, Dr. Jonas (Fox News Net)]

A shaft of light swings from side to side. A tall, obscured figure holds the flashlight, drags something/someone between the seats. Figure stops, swinging the light toward the camera. Lens flare obscuring the image.

“Ethan! What happened?” [Unidentified B]

Camera rocks slightly, then twists suddenly, blurring the image.

TC: 00:27:45:24 / CAMERA LIGHT ON

The face of the woman comes into view. Tall with close-cropped white hair.

Gallows: “I don’t... They know we’re here, Sojourner. That stain or taint or whatever it’s called.”

Sojourner: “How?” [ID B link: Sojourner — Background reference: Searching...]

Camera swings downward. Farben lies in the broken remains of his train seat. Holds up his hands, shielding his eyes. His left leg below the knee is twisted at an angle.

Gallows: “Mister Nancy Drew [Drew, Nancy: Fictional female, youth detective created by Edward Stratemeyer and largely ghostwritten by various authors under the pseudonym of Carolyn Keene] here was good enough to do Demissie’s [Unidentified C] work for him. They followed him to us.”

Sound of metal tearing and twisting cuts across the voices. Camera shifts quickly toward what remains of the front of the rail car. Glass forward door is shattered. Main cabin lights are extinguished. Some dim incidental light from globes in the tunnel outside. A uniformed soldier lies in the glass from the doorway, struggling. [ID positive: tagged IFF — Phillips, Dallin, Lance Corporal, 3rd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment / HMAF-UK] Several bodies strewn about the forward cabin also struggling to get up. [Unidentified D, E, F, G & H] Three not moving. [Unidentified I, J & K]

Unknown person called Sojourner lifts up the person [Unidentified L] she has been dragging by his collar. His hair is disheveled and coated in dust. His suit is torn. He pushes his glasses onto his nose. Sojourner pushes the man to her right. Camera pans to follow as the man is caught by another man, [Unidentified M] large, muscular, who holds him in an arm lock.

Camera shifts wildly again. Woman with short, dark hair struggles to her feet. [Unidentified N]

Gallows: “Collette, get up. We’ve got to move.”

Montrose: “I’m moving...” [ID N link positive: Montrose, Collette (CNN-Atl)]

Violent shaking. Ceiling comes briefly into focus under the light from the camera. Two seconds later, emergency lights flash on, illuminating the scene of injured passengers and twisted carriage.

Camera twists suddenly. A howling distorts the audio. Then: a rush of sparks outside the shattered windows. Also, large flaming pieces of debris.

Gallows: “What the hell is that?”

Sojourner: “They’re called Dwellers — Those Who Dwell Below — like one of the Grey Gentlemen but in its monstrous, natural form. And it’s coming for us.”

“I know what else it is.” [ID L link 85% positive: Benoit, Dr.

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