Howey, Hugh - Silo 03 - Dust by Hugh Howey
Author:Hugh Howey [Howey, Hugh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781490904382
Amazon: 1490904387
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-08-17T07:00:00+00:00
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Juliette followed the others into Mechanical â she was the last one through. The arms on one of the security gates had been busted backward. A crowd surged over the gates while some hopped sideways through the gap. The guard who was meant to prevent this helped people down on the other side and directed them where to go.
Juliette threw herself over and hurried through the crowd toward the bunkroom where the kids had been put up. Someone was clattering around in the break room as she passed, hopefully looting needed things. Hopefully looting. The world had gone suddenly mad.
The bunkroom was empty. She assumed Courtnee had already gotten there. No one was getting out of Mechanical, anyway. And it was probably already too late. Juliette doubled back down the hall and headed for the winding stairs that penetrated the levels of Mechanical. She surged with a packed crowd down to the generator room and the site of the dig.
There were piles of tailings and chunks of concrete studded with rebar around the oil rig, which continued to bob its head up and down as if it knew the sad ways of the world, as if depressedly resigned to what was happening, as if saying: âOf course. Of course.â
More tailings and rubble from the dig formed piles inside the generator room, everything that hadnât yet been shoveled down the shaft to mine six. There was a scattering of people, but not the crowds Juliette had hoped. The great crowds were likely dead. And then a fleeting thought, an urge to laugh and feel ridiculous, the idea that the smoke was nothing, that the airlock up top had held, that everything was okay and that her friends would soon rib her about this panic she had caused.
But this hope vanished as quickly as it came. Nothing could cut through the metallic fear on her tongue, the sound of Peterâs voice telling her that the airlock was wide open, that people were collapsing, Lukas telling her that Sims was dead.
She pushed through the crowd pouring into the tunnel and called out for the children. Then she spotted Courtnee and Walker. Walker was wide-eyed, his jaw sagging. Juliette saw the crowds through his eyes and realized the burden she had left Courtnee with, the challenge of dragging this recluse once again from his lair.
âHave you seen the kids?â she yelled over the crowd.
âTheyâre already through!â Courtnee yelled back. âWith your father.â
Juliette squeezed her arm and hurried into the darkness. There were lights flashing ahead â the few who had battery-powered torches, those with minerâs hats on â but between these beams were wide swaths of pitch black. She jostled with the invisible others who materialized solidly out of shadow. Rocks clattered down from the piles of tailings to either side; dust and debris fell from the ceiling, eliciting shrieks and curses. The passage was narrow between the rows of rubble. The tunnel had been made for a handful of people to pass through, no more.
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