Electronic Gags by Muzira Kudakwashe

Author:Muzira, Kudakwashe [Muzira, Kudakwashe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Neat Print
Published: 2013-01-04T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

“You can go out,” the prison warden told the four prisoners. “The police will be chasing you in two hours.”

The four prisoners walked through the prison gate.

“I wish you well guys,” D5561 said somberly.

“The same to you,” Freddie replied.

D5525 and D5561 turned left. Jennifer turned right and Freddie followed her.

“Where are we going?” he asked.

“We are going as far away from here as we can.”

“I know where to go,” Freddie said. Let’s go to the Brandon Ward Wildlife Refuge. It’s a six-hour drive from here. I worked at the refuge for five years. “It’s seventy-five thousand square kilometers of wilderness. If we make it to the park we will have a chance.”

“Taxi! Taxi!” Jennifer shouted.

A taxi pulled over and she got in. “In the name of President Brandon Ward, the supreme leader of the Ten Districts of America, I order you to get out of the taxi,” Jennifer said with the authoritative voice she used when she was a policewoman.

“But―”

“I said get out of the car in the name of Patriot Ward,” Jennifer demanded, not knowing she wasn’t far away from the truth. She was robbing the taxi to help President Ward win the first round of the death games.

The middle-aged driver got out of the taxi. In the Ten Districts of America it was dangerous to oppose anything that was said in the supreme leader’s name.

Jennifer went to the driver’s seat. “Get in!” he barked at Freddie. “What the fuck are you waiting for?”

Freddie got into the car and she drove away, leaving the taxi driver asking himself why the CIB had commandeered his taxi.

“Which way?” she asked.

“What?”

“Are you deaf? Show me the way to your wildlife refuge.”

“Turn right and get into Revolution Highway.”

She accelerated the car, overtaking dangerously. They heard a siren.“Shit!” Jennifer said, looking in the view mirror. “That cop is us pulling us over.”

Freddie looked back and saw a police motorbike. “But it’s barely ten minutes since we got out of jail. Brandon Ward changed the rules.”

“It’s a traffic cop,” Jennifer said.

“What does he want? Can’t he see we are running for our lives?”

“I won’t pull over,”Jennifer declared. She pulled over when she saw that the policeman was now aiming a gun at the taxi. The policeman parked the motorbike in front of them and walked to the car.

“You were way over the speed limit,” he said. “Show me your license.”

“I don’t have a license,” Jennifer said angrily.

“Then you are going with me to the station.”

“I’m not going with you anywhere,” Jennifer declared. “You are interfering with a police drill. The supreme leader released us from maximum security at nine o’clock and he said cops can only follow us after two hours. So tell me, officer, what gives you the courage to go against the supreme leader’s orders?”

The traffic officer backed off. He had heard about the death games and he knew he would get in trouble if he arrested Jennifer.

Jennifer started the car and sped away.

“The asshole robbed us of three valuable minutes,” Freddie said, looking at his watch.

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