Experiment by Simcoe Marina

Author:Simcoe, Marina
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marina Simcoe
Published: 2019-09-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

MY HEART WAS POUNDING wildly in my chest, and I’d given up on attempts to calm down. With Gran on my heels, I was heading to the tunnel leading from the gardens to the clinical wing.

“I am required to remind you that you’re not authorized to enter any rooms in this corridor,” the robot stated.

“If I confirm that I am completely aware of that, would you not repeat it ever again? Especially, not within the next twenty minutes. In fact, could you promise me to say absolutely nothing for the next twenty minutes?”

“You’re not authorized to shut down my inputting functions.” I believed Gran’s voice sounded a bit grumpy. “However,” he continued, “there is no instruction against your temporarily turning off my output device.”

“Really? How do I do that?”

“There are several ways. Voice command is one of them—”

“Is it?” I cut him off, anxious to keep going. “Shut up, Gran.”

He immediately went quiet. Although, the lights on his round ‘face’ shifted, forming into a sentence.

‘There was no need to be rude.’

Pinching the bridge of my nose, I said, actually feeling ashamed, “Sorry. Can we go now, please?”

Heading through the tunnel, with the soft sound of Gran rolling behind me, I opened the screen on my forearm device and pulled up the number of the room I’d recorded.

Silently moving through the corridor of the clinic, I referenced the numbers on the wall to the one on my screen. The progress was slow, as I had no idea whether I was moving in the right direction because I had no way of telling if the numbers were increasing or decreasing as I went along, simply searching for the exact one I had on my screen.

A noise in the distance made me flatten against the wall. I frantically waved to Gran to roll to me as I curled my fingers around the nail file in the pocket of my dress.

“Leave it open,” I heard a male voice. “Someone is bringing in a gurney.”

“Are they going to transfer him again? They just moved him here last night.”

“No idea. That information is above my clearance level . . .”

To my relief, the voices faded—the people talking were obviously moving in the opposite direction from me.

I snuck after them quickly. If they were talking about an open door, I didn’t want it to close before I got to it.

Turning around the corner, I spotted the backs of two male figures as they moved away. Light spilled into the corridor from the open door to my right. Not waiting for the technicians to disappear from view completely, I quietly ran to the door and into the room, anxious to get out of their line of sight as soon as possible.

“You are entering . . .” Gran’s cranky voice followed me in, but I stopped paying attention to him at the sight of the Kealan spread on his back on a high, narrow bed in the middle of the room.

His eyes closed, his features sunken, he was naked, save for the wide bandages across his hips that covered his crotch completely.

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