Oracle: Book One of the Multiverse Series by John R. Kowalsky

Author:John R. Kowalsky [Kowalsky, John R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: jrk media
Published: 2019-01-07T08:00:00+00:00

Celia was standing. She was back in the Seventh, surrounded by screens and medical equipment. Her body was still restrained, but her right hand was now free of the metal cuff that had held her by the wrist.

Celia glanced around the room, gathering her bearings and making her way back to a state of alert consciousness. The last hold that the dream held over her began to wash away. Her heart was still pounding from the fright of how her dream had ended. She was drenched in sweat but relieved that it had worked.

Stage one complete, she thought. She held her breath and listened.

No alarms were going off. No people running up and down the hallway outside. Good. It meant that the restraints weren’t electronically operated. Not only would her tampering with them not be reported, but most mechanical restraints were easily undone. At least for someone with Celia’s skill set.

Celia twisted her arm back and forth and loosened her freed right hand even more. Then she began to snake it backward in the direction of her head. The two restraints around her waist and chest also encompassed her arms, making it difficult.

Taking a deep breath, she exhaled as fully as possible, giving herself just enough space to slide her arm back. She almost had her hand free of the waist restraint when she ran out of room. This was as far as her tendons and the restraints would allow.

Without hesitation, Celia jerked backward, popping her shoulder out of the socket. She writhed in pain, but her hand was free of the first restraint. With several jolting and painful efforts, Celia managed to pop her shoulder back into the socket. It was sore as hell, but she could rotate her arm again.

Next, she looked for the locking device on her chest restraint. From her limited field of view, she couldn’t see it, which meant that it was on the side of the platform she was attached to.

Her arm was free up until her bicep, at which point the restraint held it tightly against her side. She bent her arm at the elbow and reached as far toward her shoulder as she could. When her hand could reach no further she gave one final jerk and tried to grab onto the restraint. She missed. But by dumb luck, her thumb caught the clasp and pulled it open.

“I’ll take what I can get,” she muttered to herself. She removed the chest restraint, freeing her entire upper body. The rest of the restraints took no time at all. First the left hand, then the waist, then the thigh and calf restraints, and her ankles.

She stepped away from her former prison and shook her arms and legs, working some blood back into limbs that had been stationary for too long.

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