PRIMARY VALOR by Jack Mars

Author:Jack Mars [Mars, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR

Morning

An Island Near Honduras

The Caribbean Sea

21 needs to get out of here.

It was the first thought on her mind as she slowly came awake. She knew it was daytime because the light had changed, from absolute darkness to a dim twilight. She also knew it because she was hungry, thirsty, and had to go to the bathroom. She was learning to tell time by her bodily urges.

21 better think of something.

Soon, a small, dark man in a green uniform would open the door and wordlessly walk her down the short hall to the grimy bathroom. After that, he would bring her breakfast on a tray, with water and tea. Or maybe, if she was lucky, Mistress Elaine would turn up and take her outside onto the bright, sunlit patio for breakfast.

She knew where she was now, more or less, and she had some sense of the time. Her orientation was much better than it had been. She still had no idea how long she had been gone from home, but it now seemed like she had been here just a few days.

Last night before she slept, in the pitch dark, she went over the day in her mind. She didn’t think about Darwin or Elaine, per se. She did not want to think about them, or what they wanted from her.

She thought instead about the place.

It was an island near Honduras. She knew that. Near, but far. Not so close that you could swim there.

The house was very big, with lots of rooms. When they led her upstairs to see Darwin yesterday—it was yesterday, wasn’t it?—she had lost track of where she was going.

There were men here, soldiers. They carried rifles. There were other men, as well, big white men in suit jackets with dangerous looks in their eyes. In fact, all the men here had dangerous looks in their eyes, from Darwin on down.

There was a fence around this property. She had noticed that. She had also noticed the looping razor wire at the top of it. The place was a fancy beautiful prison, and she was trapped inside.

There were telephones here. Darwin had one on his table. It was old, but it was definitely a working phone. She had been posing for him, showing him her body, and then one of the big men had come in and told Darwin there was a phone call. She noticed Darwin look at the phone. After she left, he was going to pick it up and talk on it.

People could call here, and that probably meant you could call out.

Call where?

Home, of course.

How?

She didn’t know. Did you have to dial a certain number to get an outside line? Did you have to dial one followed by an area code? Was there a special code because you were out of the country? She didn’t know any of these things.

And if she reached someone, what would she tell them?

“I’m on an island near Honduras.” Would that be enough? Were there a lot of islands near Honduras? How far away was Honduras?

There was so much she didn’t know.

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