Visions by Teyla Branton

Author:Teyla Branton [Branton, Teyla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dystopian, Science Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-948982-01-6
Publisher: White Star Press
Published: 2018-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

EAGLE JOGGED THROUGH the rubble, skirting around obstacles. Thane followed willingly, a happy expression on his face. Eagle hoped the boy could still smile after it was over.

“Where are we going?” Thane asked.

“Around to confront them from the other side. Shouldn’t be too hard. They can’t make Namon move fast after beating him so much, and they apparently don’t have a shuttle.”

“The shuttles are useless in this area,” Thane said. “Too much rubble they’d have to move. They use them in other areas of the empty zones, though. They visit those areas mostly for target practice.”

“You’ve watched them.”

“Yeah. Some.”

Eagle’s chest hurt, his back was on fire, and he pretty much wanted to die. Later, he promised himself.

“That should be enough,” he said after ten minutes. “But we’re not far ahead, and I still need to do a few things. Come on.” He cut into the path he expected the enforcers to come along in three point four minutes.

“Wait here,” he told Thane. He jogged down the path where the enforcers would approach and planted a charge inside a tangled mass of metal and concrete on the right side. Farther down, across the narrow passageway, he planted another one. Finally, he planted two more on his way back to Thane.

“Stay here with your back to the path like you’re walking. When they show up, they’ll see the uniforms and think we’re friendly. We’ll let them catch up to us. By the time they see our faces and think to check for CivIDs, it’ll be too late.”

“What if they shoot us in the back?”

Eagle winced internally. “It’ll hurt, but you’ll live.”

Turning, Eagle sprinted ahead to the nearest ruined building. The structure was already so damaged that it wouldn’t take much to collapse the rest, but the calculations couldn’t be off by much or it would fail. If he targeted the weakest areas, it could definitely work. He ran a mental 3D simulation three times to be sure.

Next, he hurried to a pile of rubble with an overhanging slab and did the same thing. This was his backup. Not as good a location as the building.

He was almost back to Thane when the enforcers came into view. They paused and waved. He waved back. He’d chosen this spot specifically near a bend in the path through the debris so the enforcers would be able to see their uniforms without iTeev magnification. Otherwise, they might check his CivID and find it and his face masked by his skin tag.

“It’s time,” he said to Thane. “Keep quiet, and when things start exploding, stay in the middle of the path away from my charges, even if I run elsewhere. Got it?”

Thane nodded and rotated slightly to glance out of the corner of his eyes at the oncoming enforcer pair. “Are you going to tell me when to shoot?”

“No shooting, but if you have to, make sure you do it in their face or neck. Otherwise their uniforms and helmets will protect them.”

Thane nodded firmly, but the fear was back in his eyes.

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