Days of Future Past - Part 2: Present Tense by Van Stry John

Author:Van Stry, John
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: John Van Stry
Published: 2017-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

- 10 -

"Well that could have gone better," Sarah said and glared at both me and Heather.

"Hey, how was I to know that they could be such assholes?" I sighed and shrugged.

"Don't look at me," Heather said and dropped down onto the floor of our cell to sit, "If they had just stayed hidden and left us alone, none of this would have happened. They're the ones looking for a fight."

"You did not have to give them one," Sarah sat down on the lone bed in the cell and looked back and forth between Heather and I again. She was probably right. We probably shouldn't have said some of what we had said, she had been handing things fairly well until Heather and I had spoken up.

"So what's our next step?" Heather asked with a heavy sigh.

"We break out of here, that's our next step," I said.

"What?!" Sarah said and stared at me, "If we do that, they will attack us for sure!"

I shook my head, "I'm sorry, but I'm not up for being anyone's slave again, it's bad enough I have Coyote yanking my chain. We weren't the ones who started all of this, they were."

Sarah sighed, "Well, they were being self-righteous pricks. But elves can be like that. I suspect we're the first humans other than the Indians that any of them have ever seen, much less dealt with. So our lack of 'respect' for their 'obvious superiority' probably grated on their more refined sensibilities."

"So you think they're assholes too," Heather chuckled.

Sarah rolled her eyes, but smiled.

"The first thing we need to do," I told them, "is to get out of here. Then get our stuff, then leave."

"Without killing anyone," Sarah warned. "If we kill any of them, the rest will follow us like a swarm of angry hornets. Elves are very single minded about revenge."

"What good will it do if we can't threaten them?" Heather wanted to know.

"Threatening is fine, we just better not follow through on the threats, or we will be in a lot worse shape than we are now."

"I don't see how it can get any worse!"

"Trust me, it can always get worse," Sarah warned.

"Fine, we don't kill anyone." Heather looked at me, "Okay, so how do we escape?"

"Why do I have to figure it out?" I asked surprised.

"Because it was your idea, that's why!"

I sighed and started to walk around the cell, looking at it. We were in an old storeroom in one of the larger buildings. The walls were concrete on two sides; I guessed that we were in a corner room. The third side looked like plaster, but when I kicked it, I didn't leave a mark.

The fourth wall, the one that held the door we'd been unceremoniously pushed through, was made up of bars. That made it rather easy for anyone entering the outside room to see all of us.

I checked the bed it was firmly rooted to the floor.

I checked the bars, the jumped back as I got shocked.

"They electrified the bars?" I said in surprise.

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