Miss Lionheart and the Laboratory of Death: Part 1: Once Bitten (Lilly Lionheart) by Ponder A.J

Author:Ponder, A.J. [Ponder, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Phantom Feather Press
Published: 2015-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Don’t Panic

SHEETS BUNCHED UP UNDER her, Lilly woke in a cold sweat. She lay there, not wanting to move, as she remembered the terrible dream. She’d been stuck in an underground bunker with crazy people wanted her to make impossible creatures. And in a hopeless effort to escape she’d been reduced to searching down corridors and knocking on walls, to try and find trap doors.

She tugged at her clothes. She was fully dressed, and wearing the exact same clothes as in the dream.

“Rabid Rodents,” she cursed.

It wasn’t a dream. Worse, she’d only meant to fall asleep for a moment, to make up for her early morning wandering, and now it was half way through the afternoon. 2 pm. Assuming the clock on her bedside was right.

“There you are.” Missy burst in, all bright eyed and bushy tailed. “I let you sleep in, but don’t you think you should be in the lab by now?”

Lilly opened her mouth, but couldn’t think of anything to say. She grabbed an aspirin from her purse. Missy’s chirpiness was making her head hurt.

“What’s the matter?” You sick?”

Now that was a tricky question. Lilly felt her forehead. No temperature. So beside her nightmares, and the actual living daymares of dangerous thugs and GKS laboratory corridors – and her desperate need to escape said thugs and corridors, and overly chirpy workmates, she was fine. She shook her head. “I’m fine.”

“You sure?” Missy fussed. And kept on fussing, keeping up an upbeat babble until they reached the lab.

“You’re late,” Squidge said, barely looking up from recalibrating pipettes as they walked in the door.

“Thanks for stating the obvious,” Lilly said. “What are you going to do, give me detention or something? That would be nice.” True enough. Detention would feel like a holiday after this.

He ignored her sarcasm, or didn’t notice it. “So what have you been up to?”

“I slept in,” Lilly said.

Missy coughed. “Didn’t come in till all hours last night.”

Lilly glared at Missy. “I got a bit lost, is all.”

“Wouldn’t bother.” Brian winked as if he was reading her mind. “We’re sealed in like sardines here. I know, I tried to escape two days ago.”

Missy smiled. “Why would you want to escape?” she asked. “Don’t you like working with the animals?”

“Yeah, I like the animals,” Lilly said.

“They’re okay.” Brian shrugged.

Missy’s frown deepened.

“And I like you guys too, of course,” Lilly added quickly. “I just want to go shopping and see the sun, and maybe go to the beach. You know.”

“The beach is nice,” Missy said dreamily, her smile returning. “I like the seagulls.”

“So do I,” Lilly lied. All the birds in the world, and this girl chose seagulls? Smelly, repulsive, noisy things. “Come on, let’s get to work.”

After three solid days of cleaning cages and tinkering with the new equipment, Lilly began to feel penned in. Not to mention horribly frumpy. The clothes she’d been given to wear looked like they’d been bought from the clearance pile of a discount store.

In the lab, there was always too

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