The Gathering: The Last Storm, Book 2 by Sisavath Sam

Author:Sisavath, Sam
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Road to Babylon Media LLC
Published: 2022-07-27T00:00:00+00:00

16

CENT

Cent had stayed in better places with better beds, but this was still pretty good. He’d always been barebones when it came to his living conditions, even more so now without anyone to take care of beside himself. But just because the room had a soft mattress and a private bathroom didn’t mean it was homely. Because it wasn’t. Not at all. The walls, ceiling, and floor was too gray and barren and lacking in personality. This wasn’t a place you stayed in voluntarily but because you had to. In many ways, the entire Bird Island complex reminded him of something a prepper with too much money on his hands would build in preparation for the end of the world. And maybe Harold Campbell fit that description. He certainly had the “too much money” part down.

Cent didn’t shower, but he did try to nap. With his eyes closed and nothing going on around him, he let his mind wander. For the first time since he arrived, Cent heard the humming in the background. He realized it’d always been there ever since he stepped foot into S5. His mind had registered it, but it’d never come to the forefront.

Now, as he lay still, he couldn’t help but hear it. It was an ever-present hum. Some kind of generator; the main source of power running everything down here. Thanks to the island’s location, it wouldn’t surprise Cent if the entire place was fueled by some type of hydropower machine that he hadn’t seen yet.

Cent sat up and stared at the far wall for a moment. It’d been almost an hour and Campbell’s people hadn’t come to get him nor Torres yet. Even with the bright LED lights in the room, there was a suffocating feel to his surroundings. Cent didn’t like it. It reminded him too much of the refugee camps in Nigeria.

He got up and walked to the door, but not before picking up his room’s keycard from the nightstand. The hallway outside was empty, the lights out here even brighter than those in his room. Like the hum, he hadn’t noticed the intensity of the lights before, but it was impossible to miss now. He liked to think his mind was too busy absorbing other information and just didn’t have the room to pay attention to his background.

Cent half-expected one of Campbell’s not-soldiers-soldiers to come around the corner and order him back into his room and tell him that he wasn’t allowed to roam about on his own. But no one showed up. The only person he saw was a man in a white lab coat coming out of his own room across from him.

“Hey,” the man said before walking off. Apparently strange faces in the complex was nothing new given how little interest the man had in Cent.

Cent decided to go for a walk. He followed the guy in the lab coat around the corner, then around another corner. There were markings along the walls telling him where he

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