Singular (Quantum Gate Book 1) by Eric Warren

Author:Eric Warren [Warren, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-31T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty

The sun had just disappeared beyond the horizon when Frees arrived to the address Arista had provided. It was a nondescript apartment block, sixty stories, with balconies on all sides. She’d certainly set herself up somewhere nice. Had her parents lived up there with her? Or were they somewhere else? He couldn’t imagine they would be far in case something went wrong. But something had gone wrong, and their daughter had been captured by the Cadre. Had they ever planned to break her out? If Frees could do it, they certainly should have been able to.

Keeping his hood down, Frees wound through the throngs to the adjacent building, scanning the area for any Peacekeepers. More than likely they had already raided the apartment, but they might have left someone behind, or posted a new detail in case Arista decided to try and come back. But so far no red-eyes in sight.

He made his way to the alley separating the buildings. An old wire fence blocked the path, but he cleared it easily, making the jump with barely a sound. Adjusting his internal parameters he’d managed to devise a way to land without creating so much noise. A fire exit door stood in the middle of an alcove dug out of the building, an area where deliveries were to be made. He hopped the high curb and once at the door, aimed the felp on the lock and fired. The door swung open and he scanned for any fire alarms that might sound, finding none. Either the building wasn’t wired for them or they’d been disabled.

Once inside Frees took the stairs three at a time, reaching the roof in under ten minutes. It was amazing how much faster he could move when his leg wasn’t injured. Below him, the city gleamed like a jewel on fire. So many lights breaking through the darkness. He’d never taken time to appreciate it before. Up here he was above some of the personal transport lanes and watched as the small aircraft crisscrossed through the buildings, like perfect lines of birds headed from one place to another. His eyes followed one lane of them out in the distance to the gigantic airport. It was easy to make out with its sprawling series of rotundas, each a hundred meters high and stretching out in every direction. They were like giant glass aviaries, opening and closing as the transports performed their vertical take-offs and landings from each terminal. When he’d first arrived to Chicago the glass had caught his eye, there had to be millions of individual pieces. During the day they reflected light in every direction simultaneously. It was more Gothic Revival art piece than airport. He couldn’t help but admire it, one of the last things the humans had built before their extermination. The machines could never create something as beautiful and perfectly meld it with function. That was what he craved so badly. The ingenuity, the growth as a society. It was paradoxical. He both wanted to be like the humans and be as unlike them as possible.

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