Glass Cage by Emmy Chandler

Author:Emmy Chandler [Chandler, Emmy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emerson Ink
Published: 2019-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

In the morning, the MRE dispenser spits out a vitamin tablet in a sealed packet along with my breakfast. I swallow it with my juice, between bites of oatmeal.

“What’s wrong with you?” Lara asks when I set my pouch down, having only eaten half my breakfast. “Still feeling bad?”

“I’m fine. Just not hungry.” All I can think about is Beau and the other donors, and how they’ll never eat anything again. Or sit, or stand, or speak again. Most of them couldn’t survive on their own, even if someone shut this place down tomorrow, because they’re being kept alive with machinery functioning in place of vital organs.

Yet Beau… He can live without one kidney and half of his liver. He could be fine—if I could get him out of here before they take something more vital. But I have no idea how to get him off the planet, even if I could get him out of bed and off the main floor.

Still, I have to try. So for the next week, I bide my time and focus on my surroundings, learning the interns’ schedules and the guards’ routines.

According to Ava, the women from the dorm room next to ours work as custodians in the other zone twelve building, but I decide to concentrate on the security situation here, because I’m trying to break Beau out of this building, not into another one.

The staff in this building is small, and I’m able to identify several potential weaknesses in the security, most notably, the fact that the guards—there are only a dozen or so of them—don’t expect any trouble from the inmates. They’re all twice the size of most of the female inmates and quite a bit bigger than both Jack and Logan, who have small frames. Which is probably part of why they were selected for their jobs.

The other weakness is Tinsley himself. His crush on Nanette distracts him from his duties.

While I assume there’s a larger staff upstairs, on the surgical floor, the main floor employs only four interns, that I’ve seen, along with two nurses and Dr. Herrington. They make rounds in the morning, and the nurses come back to check on specific post-op donors again in the afternoon. But for the rest of the day, they’re either doing paperwork in the office suite or they’re upstairs, assisting with surgery. Which is why Jack and I are usually alone on the main floor unless one of the monitors beeps. In which case Herrington and at least one nurse come running.

I think that if I can get Beau out of bed without alerting anyone, we’d stand a decent shot of getting off the main floor, assuming I can create a distraction to keep Herrington and his staff busy. And I have an idea for that. But I have no clue what to do after we escape the main floor. We need a way out of zone twelve. Off the planet, actually. Which means we need a ship.

I’ve never flown anything

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