The Stars are Red Tonight_The Paradisi Chronicles by Ashley Angelly & Louisa Locke

Author:Ashley Angelly & Louisa Locke [Angelly, Ashley & Locke, Louisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashley Angelly
Published: 2016-08-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The front steps leading up to the Space Needle were all but empty of tourists when Saya and Trevor arrived. Although he’d lived in Seattle for over six years, he’d never been this close to the famous building that dominated the city skyline. It rose above them; white columns brightly lit up against the night sky, its top looking like a flying saucer that was hovering just above the surrounding skyscrapers.

“What should we do?” Saya asked.

“When are we supposed to meet the man your mom is sending?”

“9:30.”

Trevor looked at his mobile. The time was just after nine. “We have some time to kill, and it feels sort of exposed just hanging around out front. Do you want to go up to the top?”

Saya raised her bright eyes to his. “I’ve never been up there. Have you?”

“No.” Trevor smiled. “Seems lame, but I never have.”

“Well, maybe we should go, blend in a little. Look like a normal couple sight-seeing.” She slipped her hand in his to punctuate her point.

“Definitely.”

This was becoming almost normal for them, holding hands. He turned his head so she wouldn’t see his grin. Didn’t seem right to be so happy when their lives were in danger. This whole day, the encrypted drive, the bomb threat, Bobby’s death, all felt unreal––like one of those expensive virtual reality games. The only thing that felt real was having Saya by his side, smiling up at him, holding his hand.

As they approached the ticket booth, Saya reached out her wrist. He realized she had an implanted ID, which brought home the truth that she came from one of the wealthiest most powerful families on the planet. He stopped her and said, “Probably better not to use our IDs in case someone is tracking us.”

He began hurriedly fumbling in his pockets for any cash he had, finally producing a crumpled up wad of bills. Embarrassingly, he was a few dollars short.

But Saya said, “Smart move,” and searched her laptop bag until she found the remaining cash. Together they stuffed the money into the machine, which produced two tickets.

The ticket booth was outside the gift shop, which was busy with people milling about, pawing through commemorative snow globes, t-shirts, and coffee mugs. Trevor and Saya looked at each other and nodded in agreement that they could skip that part of the tour.

They followed the signs and began walking up an empty ramp that wrapped around the base of the building, quickly reaching two huge glass doors that parted slowly upon their approach. Just inside the doors was a security checkpoint. The automated system was relatively simple. Trevor assumed that somewhere there were real humans who were watching their every move on closed circuit cameras. Saya put her mobile into her bag with her laptop and put it on a conveyor belt, as instructed, and they watched as it and Trevor’s mobile disappeared into a machine that made some whirring noises and then spit the bag and his mobile back out at them.

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