Thetis--The Deep Sky Saga--Book Two by Greg Boose

Author:Greg Boose
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2018-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Jonah plunges the knives into the wall right next to the gate and starts climbing toward the red emergency button, but blue laser fire sends him crashing back to the dirt. He ignores the shouts for him to freeze, and he picks himself up and sprints along the fence toward the dark tunnel that got him outside in the first place. He just hopes the Module Eight kids aren’t there waiting for him.

He darts down an alley, and a man shouts for him to stop, and then another man joins in the call, but Jonah just puts his head down and takes a sharp turn between a cluster of yurts. He turns again and again, zigzagging between different tents and buildings, sprinting through the shadows of the farm building, catching sight of the three frosties stacked on top of each other. He runs right past a small group of villagers with their heads up and their hands flat above their eyes, watching the dark cloud of smoke rising in the distance.

The two men get closer, their heavy, laboring breaths just a dozen yards behind him, and so Jonah speeds around a yurt, circling around and around its circumference until he hears their confusion on the opposite side. He’s not only trying to lose the men but also trying to buy Dr. Z some time. Maybe even get a few of the guards from the hospital to leave and give chase. He pictures Dr. Z kicking down doors and roaring like a madwoman, fighting Mirker’s soldiers with everything she has. He pictures her draping Brooklyn over her shoulder, grabbing an armful of medicine bags, and then charging back out into the village with the verve blasting through her veins. How is she going to get outside the gate? he wonders. He should have thought about that. But if she got out once before with Paul, he thinks she can figure it out again. Especially with Jonah’s promise to eat the seeds hanging in the balance.

Jonah sees the telescope in the distance and tears straight for it. He flattens his back against the building’s cement wall and gathers his breath. His heart beats in his throat as he whips his head around, trying to get his bearings. Which way is the tunnel from here again?

Voices come from his left and Jonah quietly rounds the building until he’s in front of the door. He tries the handle, but it’s locked. He reaches for the knives in his pockets to pry the door open, but instead his fingers find the keys. With trembling hands, he tries three different keys until the fourth one clicks when he turns it. A second later he’s inside, locking the door behind him. Jonah crouches against the door, putting as much weight on it as possible. Whoever follows him is now just on the other side. He sees the shadow of a face peering through the window, and then he hears the handle being turned. But when they realize the door is locked, they leave to look elsewhere.

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