The Legacy of Rose Valley: A Creature Feature Horror Suspense by J.P. Barnett

Author:J.P. Barnett [Barnett, J.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evolved Publishing LLC
Published: 2023-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27 – Miriam

Miriam needed answers, and the first of them came when the door to their cell flipped open. She looked at Tanner, able to see him for the first time since he’d been thrown in the brig with her. The scuffle he’d had with beasts seemed to have left him no worse for the wear. At least he didn’t have a hole in his foot.

The look he returned echoed her thoughts. Trap.

Since she could remember, her and Tanner had shared an almost supernatural bond. There’d been offhand jokes about telepathy, but it wasn’t that. They’d both grown up in the shadow of a man who’d left no room for anyone but himself. Speaking often brought more harm than good, and many a hunt required silence anyway so as not to spook the prey. As such, they’d adapted well, learning to read body language and other cues.

Trap or not, neither of them intended to wait for someone to arrive at the door. Per usual, Miriam took the lead, while Tanner crept behind. She trusted no one more than Tanner to have her back, especially against a potential trap.

While she crept, she weighed the possibility of someone waiting behind the door to attack. If so, why open the door and then hide? Her captor had shown a penchant for theatrics back at Gray’s Point, so perhaps this unexpected release was just more of the same.

As she climbed the stairs slowly, she took solace in the fact that the pain in her foot only felt like a distant sting. The bright white light of the room flooded her senses only for a few seconds before everything came into focus. No one pounced on them. Why did they want her and Tanner to see all this?

They stood at the precipice of a room full of nothing but tech: on her right stood a tower of humming computer servers. Next, a desk with a handful of monitors. Then a refrigerator with a glass front that might, in other circumstances, be used to hold sodas, but instead held vials of liquid. There, the cave turned a corner into a blank wall with nothing but a door in the middle. The door out, Miriam presumed.

On the other wall, she found two closed doors flanking a metal table covered with equipment: beakers, two powerful microscopes, and a messy stack of papers. An upper shelf contained even more stuff that looked like lab equipment. This underground network of caves appeared more than just a prison. The new beasts must have come from here, not Arrowhead. She still refused to believe they weren’t somehow involved, as no one else could possibly have the technology or the knowledge for creating these creatures.

Her eyes wandered first back to the computer monitors, hoping to find some clue, no matter how minor, but on each one she found only a login screen. If push came to shove, she’d try to guess a username and password, but she didn’t think that path would lead to success.

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