Haunting for Salvation by Ayoub Liam

Author:Ayoub Liam [Liam, Ayoub]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The weight of one’s soul

The Azreal wasn’t one of those large super freighters, that’s commonly seen chugging across the Great Lakes of Michigan, but it was big enough. Her forward deck, where Jackson and Molly had boarded the ship, was filled with large metal shipping containers, stacked three high. They followed Carol through the maze of containers, until they reached an open area. The night air was chilly, and Jackson could feel the mist of the Lake Superior washing across his face.

The Reaper led them to a metal hatchway door, with a large wheeled knob in its center and a small circular window above it, which she opened with ease, before disappearing into the bowels of the ship. They walked along a metal grated floor, going through another metal hatchway door. Metal stairs led them down to another deck, further below. Large pipes lined the ceiling of the narrow hallway, and the air seemed to become heavier. They went through another door, and down several more flights of stairs before coming to yet another metal door. Molly noticed that this door in particular was different from the others. This door was solid in construction, with no visible knobs or windows. It just looked like a single piece of shiny stainless steel, except for an odd looking small hole, where the key hole should have been.

Carol placed the blood red ruby of her ring, into the hole, and the door slide open into the wall, revealing a medium sized room. On one side of the room were three desks, which were all occupied by two men and one woman. They all looked “ordinary” for it being a Reaper substation. They sat behind archaic computers, with large boxy monitors. Their faces bathed in the eerie green light of the past. Old phones, with an actual rotary dial, sat next to the computers, and were constantly ringing.

On the other side of the room was a large piece of equipment, which resembled an old phone switch board. Three people, two women, and one man, who all looked the same as the people behind the computers, sat in front of the switch board, with headsets on. There were numerous small holes in the switch board, and each hole had a small light above it. When a light flashed, the Operator would plug a wire, with what looked like a large head phone jack at the end, into the hole, answer the call, and then plug another wire into another hole.

At the far end of the room was a lone door, which Carol began to push Larry toward. Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and just stared at the group, as they made their way across the room. After several, long, uncomfortable seconds, everyone returned to what they were doing, and paid them no further attention.

The door at the far end of the room, opened to a short, dead ended hall, with two doors on each side. Carol directed Larry to the door on the left.

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