Runner by Samantha Lau

Author:Samantha Lau [Lau, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cyberpunk romance, futuristic mm gay romance, science fiction scifi romance, gay scifi romance, mm scifi romance, dystopian gay romance, gay alpha male
Publisher: SL Press
Published: 2019-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“Please!” Wei called.

Oren pursed his lips. He wasn’t stupid. He knew if he stayed after the explosion, if he didn’t manage to sneak out, someone was going to find him, was going to blame him for at least part of this. He had no reason to be there, after all. He would never see the streets again... But what could he expect up there? He didn’t belong there; they would surely not allow him to stay.

A second explosion, this one closer, shook everything again.

Wei cried and clung to the ladder.

Oren had been too close to the shaft. His foot slipped, but he grasped to the threshold and managed to regain his footing. He looked back at the janitor, now either dead or unconscious. The man had mumbled a string of numbers and letters to him. He wasn’t quite sure what it’d meant. Wei’s face, open and hopeful, worried and scared, stared back at him when he turned back to him.

“Move it,” Oren finally said, reaching for the ladder. He saw Wei’s expression brighten before he quickly moved up. Climbing fully on the ladder, he followed, listening to the hiss of the panel closing behind them and drowning out the sounds of screams.

They climbed up and up in silence for a good, long while. Oren observed the walls of the shaft carefully. There were markers there, strings of numbers and letters. He didn’t understand their meaning, but he recognized the format, the same one the janitor had told him. Oren understood the message then: the floor it’d be safe to get off on. He had no idea where the clouds began and ended, it could have been one floor or ten, for all he knew, so he was thankful for the man’s foresight. He wondered if he was alive, if he should have stayed to try and help, if he should have-

“How much longer?” Wei asked, panting a bit.

Oren looked up. His enhanced arm chose that moment to again send his fingers into a twitch that nearly made him lose his grasp. He grimaced. That hadn’t happened for a while now, he’d thought the circuits had settled... Shit. He was probably overexerting himself.

“Ain’t long now,” he lied, because Wei sounded tired. He was too. If he’d known they would do a marathon ladder climbing session, he might have risked a small break before heading there.

After another while, he heard a small yelp from above. He looked up in time to see Wei’s foot slip from the rung and hit him full in the face.

“Fuck!” He wrinkled his nose, trying to regain some feeling.

“I’m sorry!!” Wei tried to look down.

“Don’t look down!” Oren grumbled, though the boy had sounded so contrite, he couldn’t quite help being a bit amused too. “’S fine, just keep going.”

Wei made a small indistinct sound but obeyed and moved on. Oren followed him, still close despite the risk of being hit in the face again. Wanting to distract his companion, he said. “Ya kno’, there’s a reeeaally nice sight of ya bum from down ‘ere.

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