Captive: Book Five in the Enhanced Series by T.C. Edge

Author:T.C. Edge [Edge, T.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Behind the large security door, the muted sounds of terrified calls spread from the murky space ahead. My eyes lift now, no longer requiring to hide their inner power, and search forward into the gloom, to the cells lining the corridor that stretches into the depths.

Each one is built from solid metal too, and each has a little window of thick, barred glass giving a view of the prisoner inside. Immediately, Zander whispers to me, no longer needing to communicate in my head.

“OK, you go left, I’ll go right. Find him quick.”

I don’t need to be told twice.

I immediately spring off to the first cell on the left and peer inside. I see a frame balled on the dank floor, curled up and shivering in fear. It’s not Adryan, that much is clear. But my desire to free the poor man as well instantly swells.

He looks so alone, so frightened. Whether he’s here to be executed, or reconditioned, I can’t know. But either way, his fate is sealed, and maybe today, or tomorrow, or several days from now, the life he knows will end.

I tear my eyes away from him and move to the next cell. I encounter a similar story, this one told by the form of a bedraggled woman, whimpering into her hands as she rocks back and forward on the little bench that lines one side of the cell.

Before her eyes can lift to me, I step further to the left, and then onwards down the corridor as I pass by cell after cell filled with lost soul after lost soul.

My heart breaks a little more with each person I see, my mind filling with thoughts of what they’re leaving behind; the people, the places, the experiences. That most of these people will likely be up for reconditioning and not execution, that many will probably become Con-Cops or other slaves of the system, all set to help usher in the new directives of the Consortium.

I’ve always looked upon Con-Cops with an apathetic eye, mostly hating them for how they behave, for their lifeless eyes and unerring need to do as their masters order. I’ve looked upon them like that even though I know they were all once normal people, most of them barely criminals at all before they were turned.

But never have I truly imagined them here, locked in these cells, waiting for the inevitable. Seeing it now brings to life the true terror that they have to go through, the desperate nature of what we’re trying to save. No one with any ounce of humanity could possibly condone such a thing.

And that’s exactly what’s at stake: humanity.

As I go, I turn to see Zander making swifter progress, moving from one cell to the next without batting an eyelid. I yearn to have his ability to focus on the mission only, to look upon these people with barely a blink of caring.

He’s not a callous person, he’s just been forced to act in a callous way. He’s here to save Adryan and nothing more.

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