Bulb (The Grid Series Book 1) by Nicholas Turner

Author:Nicholas Turner [Turner, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nicholas Trieste
Published: 2020-06-07T22:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Janet looked around the basement. Everyone had split up to see if there was anything worth finding. Most of what they came across was hardware supplies, which seemed pretty useless. Though, Fox insisted that he take some nails and screws, along with zip ties he had come across. He stocked them in his pack.

Crow found a crowbar, which was slick from the damp air in the basement. It was in good shape. Jamal had peered here and there and he couldn’t find anything of value for himself.

“Hey guys, why is this area a little warmer than the rest of the room?” Bernice called out.

The entirety of the group made their way across the basement and into a smaller alcove that housed all of the old boilers which had clearly stopped running. The walls were brick, light gray like the sky outside. Everyone noticed that it was warmer in this outcropping of wall, but for no reason at all. Nothing worked down here, nothing ran, and nothing was putting off any heat except for themselves. The room should not have been warm.

They began to disperse through the small room, like food dye in water, leaving traces of themselves as they moved silently. They swirled and blurred through each other’s paths, trying to find the source, trying to find more meaning in their small enclosed world, free to move, yet still trapped. Janet reached a wall which was warmer than the rest of the room. She ran her hands along it, and found a small rectangular patch which cooled after she reached the next brick. It was a small area of warmth, but she had done it. She had found where the heat originated.

“Hey!” she yelled as she found the secret they didn’t know they wanted to find.

Everyone ran over, swirling back through the clear, viscous ether. They waited and clung to the wall, trying to discover why it was almost hot to the touch. The warmth ran from ceiling to floor and then cooled distinctly at either side.

“Find something to bash these bricks with,” Jamal said looking towards Crow, and the metal length he had poking from his bag.

Without hesitation, Crow cleared the area and began pounding against the brick as hard as he could. Nothing had chipped off after minutes of smashing it as hard as he could.

“Man, quit it with your shit and give me that bar,” Jamal said as he closed the gap and took it from Crow’s who had begun to gasp harder and harder for more air.

Jamal beat the bricks as hard as he could, harder than Crow had, yet nothing happened. It was as if the molecules of the crowbar weren’t even hitting the brick, like a barrier was pushing back as they tried to make a dent in it. Janet stared in amazement.

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