Resistant Box Set by Perrin Briar

Author:Perrin Briar [Briar, Perrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2018-01-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

DANA HAD to be cautious about which glass panel she would take. The glass grated and shifted beneath her weight. There was no question in her mind that should she put down too much weight too soon it would give way altogether.

Hugo was having to make the same decisions too. They were crawling perhaps a dozen feet apart and needed to keep up with each other, heading at the same speed or else risk Debbie swinging too far to one side.

Dana and Hugo shared a look, not daring to even share a word with one another for fear the noise might break the glass. An irrational fear, but one with very real consequences.

Dana moved her hands slowly, checking the glass would take her weight before allowing herself to go any farther and risking more weight. The glass grated, groaning, making sounds Dana was not altogether comfortable with.

Then something happened, and it happened all at once.

“Woah, woah!” Hugo said.

Dana barely had a split second to look over at Hugo before he disappeared. He had fallen through the pane of glass. Time slowed.

Dana’s breath caught in the back of her throat, hitching, sharp, and full of fear. She hit the window pane and dragged along the glass. It bit into her hands. She didn’t feel the pain—she could no longer feel pain—but she did feel the tug of glass on her skin.

Red—it was no longer blood in Dana’s mind—sprayed as she was dragged onto a large pane of splintered glass. It was uncomfortable, but not painful. Dana seized upon the advantage.

She dug in her palms, acting as an anchor to Hugo’s fall. Hugo swung in place below her. Debbie, thankfully, hadn’t gone over the side. She had caught on the corner of the broken window pane.

But she wouldn’t stay there forever.

Dana carefully released the tension on her cord that was attached to Debbie. She began to slip toward Hugo. Dana increased the tension again.

Damn. If she attempted to cross to Debbie, the woman would fall over the side, and then, it would just be up to Dana to keep both bodies from falling. An impossible task.

Below, through her hands, Dana could see the undead, gathering for the approaching meal. Dana’s blood, that dripped through the cracks in the glass, was a particular draw, and they raised their hands, celebrating like a bloody rain dance.

As if the fall wasn’t bad enough, Dana thought.

“Dana,” Hugo said.

She was surprised she could hear Hugo via the broken window pane, but then she realized his voice wasn’t coming from that direction, but from the hole in the window pane she was currently perched on. She could see him through the hole.

“Well, this is a pretty pickle, isn’t it?” Hugo said.

“Climb up!” Dana said.

“Me, pull all this weight up my cord using just my arms?” Hugo said. “I don’t think so.”

“Try!” Dana said.

Hugo did, but his arms shook and he barely rose more than an inch.

“I can’t,” he said. “Serves me right for not keeping in shape in the old world, huh? We’ve done well, Dana.

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