Earth Cry by Nick Cook

Author:Nick Cook
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Voice from the Clouds Ltd
Published: 2019-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

My eyes kept skating over Ricardo’s body as we listened to the conversation coming from the adjacent cell. The problem was that, even with my ear pressed to the door, I couldn’t quite make out what was being said as Alvarez and Villca questioned Mike. I was also painfully aware of the hulking presence of the Overseers guards just outside in the corridor.

‘So what now?’ Jack whispered.

‘This is where the other bit of my lock-picking kit comes in,’ I said.

‘What do you mean?’

‘This.’ I took out a bendy black rod with a fisheye lens on the one end and slotted the data plug end into the slot on my Sky Wire phone.

‘And that is?’

‘It’s a flexible camera, normally used to investigate tricky locks. But in this instance it will give us a look at what’s going on outside and is less likely to be spotted than you trying to peek through the hatch.’

‘Neat.’

I slipped it under door, slow and steady, praying that neither of the two Overseers soldiers noticed the snake-like device. With my breath held, I toggled the camera on via the Sky Wire’s screen and a clear fisheye view of the corridor appeared. Jack frowned at the two mercs with Uzis in their hands. These guys obviously took guard duty seriously.

The door to the main police station opened. At once both soldiers turned to face the police officer who walked in. He was carrying two buckets heavy enough to stretch his arms out, a towel hung over his shoulder.

The officer raised his chin at the Overseers soldiers, who nodded and pushed the cell door open for him. The officer disappeared into the cell, out of our view. But we could hear Alvarez’s voice through the open door.

‘So how is it that you’ve turned up here, Mr Palmer?’ Alvarez asked.

‘Like I’ve said a hundred times already, I’m not going to tell you a thing,’ Mike replied.

‘That’s what you think…’

We heard a chuckle. ‘You’ll be singing like a canary after we begin to waterboard you,’ Villca said.

‘That’s where they make someone feel like they’re drowning by pouring water over their faces, right?’ I whispered to Jack.

‘Yeah. I’ve had to deal with soldiers who’d been captured and had that done to them. They all told me it’s bad – real bad. Anyone will crack given long enough if they feel like they’re choking to death. We’ve got to do something.’

‘And we will, but we still have to choose our moment.’ I caught the smirk that one Overseers soldier gave the other. This was all a game to them. The utter bastards.

‘Leave me alone, you fuckwits!’ Mike shouted before his voice became muffled.

I might not have been able to see what was happening, but in my imagination it was a vivid movie based on every torture scene that I’d ever seen on TV. Mike was being held down flat on the floor, a wet towel draped over his face. Villca had taken one of the buckets of water and was pouring it over Mike’s head.

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