Alpha Force: Fault Line by Ryan Chris

Author:Ryan, Chris [Ryan, Chris]
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: RHCB Digital
Published: 2009-12-23T00:00:00+00:00

15 LONE RESCUER

Amber watched as Rosa helped another classmate out. He got to his feet and took cautious steps. Amber interpreted his body language and could almost read his thought processes. Was the ground safe to walk on, or would it shake them like dice in a tumbler? Even after he’d got his courage back the boy limped. He was hurt. His injury didn’t look very bad but it might be better to let him rest.

Amber went to help him. ‘Hi there. What’s your name?’

‘Pedro,’ said the boy.

‘Pedro, I’ve got a very important job for you. Can you hobble over here? Lean on me. Sit down here,’ she instructed him. ‘I want you to stay with Beatriz here. She’s hurt her arm and she isn’t able to move right now. Can you look after her until help arrives?’

Pedro sat down. ‘OK,’ he nodded. He stared at Amber. All the others had done that too. Must be the shock, she thought.

There were fewer screams in the room now. Those who were still trapped could hear others moving about normally. But Amber kept hearing the occasional cry from other galleries.

‘Listen up,’ she called. ‘Pedro, Rosa, Gabriel – I need to go and see if there are people trapped in the other galleries. You stay here, carry on doing what you’re doing. Promise me you won’t move from this room. All right?’

They nodded.

Amber took two light sticks. She’d start with the entrance lobby, see whether they could get out. She heard another mobile phone start trilling, then another, but she couldn’t tell where they were. They weren’t answered.

She reached the wall and her light stick picked out an urn on a plinth. That was odd. Then she realized she’d gone completely the wrong way, towards the dinosaur gallery. Without any landmarks and with so much devastation she needed a compass to find her way about.

In the doorway she held the light sticks up, making sure when she set off again that she wasn’t taking another wrong turn. They glinted off the polished surface of the urn. Amazing, she thought. It’s survived all this. For a moment she couldn’t take her eyes off it, this proof of the randomness of fate. What about the rest of the dinosaur room? she wondered. That’s where her friends had been.

Amber held up the light sticks. The dust was still thick, like soup, and the glow couldn’t reach very far. She could no longer hear any screams or mobiles. Just that trickling sound of running stones. She ventured forwards.

A plaster bone pointed out of the gloom like the front boom of a ship in a heavy fog. Next to it another bone had broken in half, its broken surface gleaming stark white. She ran the light sticks upwards. The whole dinosaur was smashed. Part of the roof had come in on it too. She seemed to remember there was an office beyond it, but it was completely blocked.

She listened. Just shifting debris; nothing human. All the sounds were coming from the room where she had been.

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