STARGATE ATLANTIS The Wild Blue by The Wild Blue (SGX-05)

Author:The Wild Blue (SGX-05) [Retail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2020-07-06T15:49:31+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

It had been a long and difficult walk down the cliff face, though once they’d gone a few hundred meters, ropes and handholds appeared, carefully colored to blend in with the rock face. It was certainly a good way to discourage any escape attempts, Mel thought. She had been too busy concentrating on her footing to think of making a break for it, and the thought of trying to climb that same steep face while the Satedans were shooting at her was thoroughly discouraging. But surely it wouldn’t come to that. Once they had a chance to explain the situation, to prove that they weren’t Wraith worshippers… She slipped on a patch of moss and Tan steadied her.

“Do we try to get away?” she whispered, and Mel shook her head.

“Not yet —”

“No talking,” one of the men said, glaring, and Mel lifted her hands.

“Ok.”

They had reached the edge of the woods, passing through the first of what looked like several linked clearings, and Mel saw the stack of cut timber that they had seen from the air. There was the elevated wooden sluice, water flowing steadily away from the mine, and then they had reached the cleared area in front of the mine itself. She recognized the buildings she had seen from the air, though up close they didn’t look quite as deserted. Yes, the doors gaped and there was no glass in the windows, but it looked as though work was going on inside those battered shells. Up a graveled slope, the entrance to the mine itself gaped wide, but to her surprise, the group’s leader took them to the smaller of the two buildings to the left of the entrance. From the look of it, it had been some kind of administrative building, single-story, with a set of smaller rooms off a narrow lobby; the Satedans had shored up the walls and roof and replaced one of the rooms’ doors with a crudely-forged set of bars. The old man motioned them inside, and ostentatiously closed it with a padlock the size of his fist. There were no windows, and the only light came from an oil lantern, hung on the far side of the hall. There was a sturdy-looking wooden cot and what looked like a rolled-up mattress, but no other furniture.

“Wait a minute,” Mel said. “What about us?”

“That’s up to the general,” he said, and turned away.

Mel leaned against the bars, watching him walk out of sight. There was a man with a rifle at the end of the hall, but that was the only guard she could see. An advantage, maybe, she thought, except that there was still that cliff to climb before they could get back to the Rapide.

“There used to be a window here,” Tan said, from the back of the cell. “But they boarded it up. If we could pry it open —”

“There’s a guard at the end of the hall,” Mel said. “He’d hear.” She moved back from the door, positioning

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