Panic Station by Elodie Crowe

Author:Elodie Crowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Womens Fiction, Suspense Thriller, Mystery, Supernatural thriller, Murder Mystery
Publisher: Elodie Crowe
Published: 2023-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The Past Shadow

SALLY’S PREDICTION turned out to be accurate. The haze of cloud outside the waiting room was just as thick as I recalled, its arms reaching out to devour me as soon as I started my quest. Undeterred by its insidious reach, I concentrated on my phone, raising it into the air while I wandered from the door.

Keeping the brick wall on my left to ensure I didn’t lose my bearings; I waved the device around and checked to see if my signal had returned. Nothing. No matter how far I went or which way I waved, the device was stubbornly resistant to its purpose.

“Oh, come on!” I hissed, frantically seeking to avoid the rising agitation growing as I walked on. “Just give me a signal.”

We needed this, and not just for Old Tom. Of course, I wanted him to be okay. He didn’t deserve to die on the dirty floor of a station waiting room, but the signal had come to represent something far greater than any one of us. It was a sign of hope—an omen that we weren’t doomed to spend the rest of our lives stuck on this miserable platform.

“What’s the bloody point of these things if they don’t work when you really need them?”

My burgeoning frustration demanded I waved the device around. The signal had to return, didn’t it? It had to. The whole world revolved around the internet and technology, and we couldn’t be the only ones affected. There must have been people sent to rectify the problem. It was only a matter of time.

“But Old Tom doesn’t have time,” I reminded myself as I stumbled on. “I have to act. Have to get help now.”

Focusing on the screen didn’t help. There was still no chance to communicate with the outside world, and the constant attempts to try were wearing down my phone’s battery. I’d have to go back to the waiting room and charge it. I had my charger with me, after all. It was in my bag with the others.

“Tom needs me,” I muttered. “I have to keep trying.”

It was then I noticed what should have been obvious. The wall had vanished. When I reached out for it in the murk, my fingertips sensed nothing. No brick. No building at all.

“Shit!” This time the flaring panic was a real, tangible entity, powerful enough to strangle the life out of me. “Where is it?”

Feeling around in the fog, there was nothing obvious to grasp, no evidence of the waiting room I’d come from. Alarmed, I flicked on the torch function of my phone, hoping the added illumination would bring clarity, but all it achieved was flashing the glare of the cloud back at me.

“Oh, God.”

Heaving in the damp air, I peered left and right. Every direction looked the same—an endless sea of haze and confusion—but I knew I couldn’t have wandered too far from my starting location. Could I? Staring around again, I was abruptly reminded of where I was. This

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