Darkside Dreams - The Complete First Series by A. King Bradley

Author:A. King Bradley [Bradley, A. King]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-07T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

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A few minutes later, they were running through shadows. They headed away from the lake and into a narrow stretch of no man's land, where a drainage ditch stood clogged with trash and stagnant water that reeked to high heaven. It was narrow enough to jump across. At least for Lynn. With her sword sheathed at her waist, she hopped deftly to the other side, then held onto the trunk of a stunted tree and leaned over the gap, extending her other hand toward Oscar.

With a running leap, he sailed over the rancid trench. He felt the toe of his right boot land on the lip of the ditch, slip on a bit of dirt, then bite into the grit of the concrete. He grabbed Lynn's forearm and hauled himself to safety.

"Good teamwork," he said. "Let's keep that up. I know this isn’t my first rodeo, but I can’t help but feel you’ll have to pick up a lot of slack for me..."

She shook her head. "You're Oscar Graves. And you're pissed off. If I was Greyson, I'd be pissing myself right now."

That made Oscar feel a lot better.

This side of the drainage ditch was filled with thick growths of dry, gnarled trees. They had to pick their way through slowly and tediously, getting more frustrated all the while. Through the trees ahead of them, they saw the distant flood lights of the compound. Shining brilliantly and in dense arrays. How the hell were they going to get past that?

Finally they tore their way through the trees. Suddenly they were in the open, exposed, standing on a ragged and weedy margin that separated the compound's vast lots from the relative wilderness around it. Following Lynn's lead, Oscar sprinted through the dark toward a chain link fence. Lynn climbed almost to the top of it and, reaching up with a pair of snips, she quickly dismantled a stretch of razor wire and let it fall to the grass inside the fence.

No words were spoken. Lynn dropped down to the other side and, by the time she looked back, Oscar was already hauling himself over. The fence rattled and jangled under his weight and he looked around, biting his lip. There were no guards in sight just yet.

"If you narrow your eyes," Lynn whispered, "you can make out a gap between two floodlights that is wider than any other. Do you see it?"

Oscar squinted. The goggles helped, clearing his vision, and he noticed the gap she was talking about. It was a good six feet wider than the space between any other pair of lights.

"I see it," he said.

"That's where all the utilities come in," Lynn said. "That's our point of entrance."

He didn't ask her to explain it further. There was no time. They were already pushing the envelope just by standing here. He would just have to trust her, follow her lead.

They ran. They ran as fast as Oscar could manage. He was in good shape... for his age, but they both knew that he was nowhere near as fast as Lynn’s potential top speed.

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