Genesis by Brendan Reichs

Author:Brendan Reichs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

23

MIN

I sat there staring at the open door.

In a cushy rolling chair, with my legs folded up beneath me, drinking Tang from a white sports bottle. I’d wheeled one all the way from the conference room down to the lab wing for sessions like this one. Staring sessions.

Because the open door was driving me insane.

Just as she intended.

I knew Sarah had unlocked it somehow. Zero doubt on that account. After her Dr. Evil pitch failed—join me in the secret underground lair, and together we’ll rule the world!—she’d moved to the next plan. Sarah didn’t waste time pouting.

She’d stopped talking to me, too, leaving me to stew over this new riddle. But I watched her on the laptop. Day by day, she was figuring out how things worked. I could barely track her movements through the computer system as she explored subfiles and processing routines, intent on learning everything she could. Frankly, I was in awe. Sarah Harden was the worst enemy I could have possibly selected. Hooray.

I pressed my palms against my cheeks, returning focus to the Pandora’s box before me. Sarah obviously wanted me to go through this door. But why? Where did it lead? All I could see was a dimly lit corridor that took a hard right after a dozen yards. Back toward the command center. Back toward the computer room.

Possibly to exactly where I wanted to go.

Arrrrgh.

My basic theory hadn’t changed. During construction, huge amounts of material had been hauled into the silo somehow. Surely it didn’t all come down the shaft. Too much weight, but more importantly, way too public. Someone in Fire Lake would’ve noticed and raised hell. So that meant, logically, there had to be another way. And the only unexplored area left was the chamber housing the MegaCom. My gut told me this corridor led straight there. Given what I knew of the silo, it was the only possibility that made sense.

So. This hallway had to lead to the computer room. Right? RIGHT?

So why open the door? With the blast curtain retracted Sarah could see into the computer room, but not every corner. She couldn’t say for certain what was inside, and her part of the silo didn’t have a separate way to access it. Tack and I had checked.

So why open the door?

Did Sarah know if there was another way out? Did she suspect one, as I did? She’d read almost every binder in the building by now. The same idea must’ve occurred to her. Sarah didn’t miss things.

So why open the door?

I didn’t think she’d simply open up a way for me to escape. Not after our last chat. Which meant this had to be a trap. Was she hoping I’d get too curious? If so, it was working.

A quick dash? Sarah slept, and I could time it.

No. That’s the trick. The minute I go, she’s got me.

Or maybe there was a way out, and she just wanted me gone. She might have some clever trick to get inside the lab complex, but it wouldn’t work if I was there to play defense.

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