Reunion by John G. Hartness

Author:John G. Hartness [Hartness, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John G. Hartness
Published: 2021-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

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“Billy, do you read me? Mike, what’s going on? Do either of you hear me? Where are you guys? You’re out of my camera range - all I have in the locker room is thermals, and the readings I’m getting are really weird. Mike? Mike!” Sam shrieked into the radio, then slammed it down onto the desk.

“Nothing.” She said, turning to Jessica.

“Yeah, I gathered.” Jessica stood on the other side of the desk, rubbing her arms as if cold. “What do we do?”

“I don’t know,” Sam admitted. “Part of me wants to go after them, and wring Billy’s damn neck if this is another one of his pranks, but a big part of me wants to just find an open door or window and get the fuck out of here.”

“I’m with the part of you that’s looking for a window.” Jess said. “If this is some kind of prank, I’ll kill Mike later, but for now, I really want to be somewhere else.”

“I hear you, girl. I just can’t…never mind.”

“What?”

“It’s the thermal imaging sensors I set up in the locker rooms. They went batshit for a little while, then back to normal, like something made the whole room into a sauna, or turned on all the hot water, then it all went back to normal, but I didn’t get any normal body heat readings off the guys. I mean, look at this.” She pointed to her screen and clicked her mouse a few times. “This is when the guys go into the room, right? See the two red outlines?”

“Yeah, looks normal.”

“Right. But then,” Sam clicked her mouse a few more times, and the screen exploded in red and yellow. “Then it gets super-hot in there, across the whole room, and I lose the guys in the flare, because it’s so hot in there I can’t distinguish forms.”

“Okay, that makes sense, I guess,” Jess said.

“Then it calms down and goes back to normal, except for a few things holding residual heat, like metal or something. But I still can’t find the guys.”

“What do you mean, you can’t find them?” Jessica asked.

“There aren’t any bodies on the readout warm enough to be people. Everything is cooling at the same rate, like the room is getting colder and they aren’t making their own heat.”

“And people only stop making body heat…” Jess didn’t finish her sentence.

“Yeah.” Sam agreed.

“So they went into the locker room, it got got enough so that our sensors were useless, and now there are no sources of body heat left in the room.”

“Right.”

“So they either got out of there and just aren’t answering their radios, they got out of there and their radios are jacked up, or…”

“Yeah,” Sam said. “And I put new batteries in all the radios and checked them today, plus charged everyone’s cell phones. There’s no good reason they should be able to contact us.”

“And I’d rather concentrate on getting out of here than spend time thinking about the bad reasons. So let’s go look for that open window.

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