New Alcatraz (Book 1): Dark Time by Pies Grant

Author:Pies, Grant [Pies, Grant]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Time Travel | Dystopian
Published: 2014-06-26T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 46

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NEW ALCATRAZ

DAY 8

Ellis was silent for the rest of the day. Every once in a while I caught him mumbling to himself. When I’d told him the agent I was accused of murdering was mutilated, his skin turned pale, like a sheet of paper. He’d made me repeat the organs that were removed.

He then asked me if I knew Agent Emery before I was accused of murdering her; if she looked at all familiar to me. He asked if I knew anyone else that worked for the Ministry of Science or the Time Anomaly Agency. I told him no. I told him exactly what I told Agent Lee during my questioning; I didn’t know her, and I had no motive to kill her or anyone else. Ellis looked at me like he wanted to believe me. Instead of sadness and worry, his face stayed blank, flushed of all color and emotion. In a way his face did express what was left inside of Ellis. Nothing. Everything seemed to have been pulled and drained out of him; he was defeated.

By mid-day a sandstorm whipped around us. Until then, I had frequently looked behind us to see if the other prisoners approached, but now I couldn’t see one meter behind us. For all I knew they could be within earshot. The wind crashed into me with the force of a door slamming in my face. I stumbled and tripped with each gust that pushed my weakened body, and by this time Hamilton walked in a bent over position. More so than the rest of us, he moaned in pain as his dehydrated and coagulated blood oozed through his veins. But despite the stiff winds and Hamilton’s health, we actually made quick work through the desert.

The sun drifted towards the horizon, and the further we walked from the beach the harder the ground underfoot became. If I looked hard enough I swore I could see a remnant of an old road or runway as chips of old asphalt kicked around under my feet. Mounds of cement marked some old structure in the distance, and Red pointed at it like an old sailor who had spotted land for the first time in many months. It was a pile of cement that had the harsh angles of a manmade structure; one of the last remnants of a civilization that I would never get to see, but that lived here at some point. Red took off after the structure, his feet clapping against the hard ground. Hamilton stood and watched Red, barely able to remain vertical.

Ellis saw the structure but he just returned his gaze to the ground. His pace didn’t speed up at all. The ground became even harder and was darker than other dirt I had seen in New Alcatraz. Red reached the structure and waited for the rest of us, patting it with his open palms, as if he’d found a stray dog. He smiled like there was an unspoken race to reach this old hunk of earth first.

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