Victim Zero (The Fall) by Guess Joshua

Author:Guess, Joshua [Guess, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

Part Four: Gravity

If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight.

Albert Einstein, on the realization which led to his theory of gravitation

Chapter Fourteen

The inside of the trailer was completely dark.

It had taken only a short search to find another trailer. None of them had any desire to bring the ones that had served as Kate and Laura's prisons with them. Kate had thrown the match which ignited a small amount of their precious gasoline before they left the marauder camp, engulfing the two small boxes in flames as they set out for somewhere brighter.

Not far from the town where they stayed the night before was a larger town, and there they found what they were looking for at an abandoned rental company.

Inside the trailer, it was sweltering. Small vents in the floor helped somewhat (and more importantly, didn't allow him to see anything but a sliver of the road itself) but within half an hour he had stripped to his boxers and laid as flat as he could, thankful that heat rises.

The box itself was five feet on a side, which made it impossible for him to rest comfortably. The idea had been simple enough, that traveling without being tied up or blindfolded would be preferable to laying hogtied in the bed of a truck or in the cargo area of his SUV, which Kate was driving. It was only after the sweat began to pour down his body that he reconsidered; his vehicle had air conditioning, and the bed of the truck would have at least had a breeze.

There wasn't anything for it but to endure. Laura assured him the trip would only take a few hours, and he had a two gallons of clean water to keep him hydrated. After the first hour he'd emptied one, which was a good thing since there would be no bathroom breaks.

Curled up on the floor and against every expectation, he fell asleep.

Sometime later he woke to the sudden blaze of August sun pouring in through the door of the trailer, which nicely silhouetted the small army of men and women pointing guns at him.

The nearest, whose voice was deep and resonant, spoke.

“Welcome to the Complex,” he said.

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