Now You See Me by Chris McGeorge

Author:Chris McGeorge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: 2019-06-11T21:09:55+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

Sally led him back to the Diggle entrance of Standedge Tunnel. She followed the canal a little the other way until they came to a bridge. She looked back as she started to cross.

“I’ve never gone to the abandoned tunnel, so I’m just guessing here, but I assume it’s this way.”

Robin nodded as they crossed the bridge, and watched Sally as she hopped over a fence into a probably private field. Robin didn’t even think, just climbed over the fence too—a little less easily than Sally.

There were three horses in the field, hanging around farther down the fence, and they looked around to regard the intruders. Robin stopped to watch them, and started getting left behind. He caught up to Sally halfway across the field.

“How old are you?” he said, slightly awkwardly.

Sally looked around, mirroring his awkwardness. “You wanna check my ID or something?”

“No,” Robin said quickly, “just...what you said back there made a lot of sense. That’s all.”

“I’m twenty,” Sally said.

“Your dad teach you to be so wise?”

Sally laughed. “No. No, he did not.” They got to the end of the field, and Sally hopped over the fence onto a gravel path and watched Robin as he precariously picked his way over, seemingly to enjoy the spectacle. She waited until his feet were back on the ground and set off up the gravel path, crunching with every step. Robin walked too.

“Your mother, then?”

“Mother?” She said it like it was a foreign word. “No... I don’t have one of those.”

“Everyone has a mother.”

She stopped, looked at him thoughtfully.

“What?”

She shrugged and carried on. “You just reminded me of someone for a second.” Before Robin could respond, they rounded a corner, and Sally gave a small whoop of joy. “Well, that was easy.”

They were confronted by a large train tunnel, completely fenced off and padlocked tight. Inside the tunnel was darkness. It was completely abandoned and small sounds echoed throughout. The whole place felt wrong—a structure made for life devoid of it. Robin stepped forward, looking at the fence and, specifically, the bottom of it. He saw that there was indeed a layer of concrete that spanned the width of the tunnel, just like Martha Hobson at the Visitor Centre had said, making it impossible to dig under the fence.

Sally tapped him on the arm and pointed up. He looked to where she was pointing. “There’s the camera.” There was a small nondescript box on the top of the tunnel with a red light blinking on it. Robin suddenly had the feeling of being watched.

“There really is no way you could get through here,” Robin said.

And Sally nodded. “This isn’t what we’re here for, though. I guess we’ll try and get round the side.” With that, she crossed in front of the tunnel, looking at the hedges that lined the entrance. With a shrug, she reached out her hands and started to hack through. She disappeared.

Robin looked back at the tunnel, into the same nothingness he saw inside of Standedge. Train tracks worn into the dirt disappeared into the dark.

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