Survivor by Brett Battles

Author:Brett Battles [Battles, Brett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: suspense, alternate reality, Mystery, time travel, Thriller
Published: 2017-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

I’M IN A cell again. The room doesn’t look like the one I shared with Jovan and the others in prison, but that doesn’t matter. A bed, a chair, a toilet, a sink, and a door that opens only from the outside—it’s a cell, all right.

I wish I knew where Jovan is, but I haven’t seen him since we were separated right after we were brought inside the wall. Throughout the first day I was in here, I yelled his name through the crack around the door but I never heard a response. That was three days ago.

When the door opens now, I think it must be mealtime again and I sit down on my bed as instructed. Standing on the other side of the threshold is not a guard holding a tray, however, but Langer Min, Dumont’s surviving linguist.

“It is you.” She says this not in Latin or even Gaulish, but in English. “We did not believe it. We thought you were dead.” She speaks slowly and pronounces most of the words almost correctly.

“There were a few times I thought I was dead, too.”

“Come.” She turns and walks out of sight.

When I exit the cell, I see she’s not alone. There are three soldiers wearing the same tan uniforms as those who caught us outside the wall.

My armed escort and I follow Langer to a room on an upper floor. Three other men are already there. One is in a uniform similar to that of my guards, though his is more ornate, while the other two are dressed in formal-looking civilian clothing.

The older of the suited men sits behind a desk, while the other one and the officer stand on either side of him. Langer walks up to the desk and motions for me to join her.

“So?” the older man asks in Gaulish.

“He is one of ours,” she says.

“And the other one, too, I suppose.”

Langer looks at me and says in English, “Jovan is with you, correct?”

“Yes, but I don’t know where they put him.”

“Were there any others?”

“There was a girl with us. Clora. She was an astronomy student at Trinity.”

Langer looks surprised and turns back to the man. “You didn’t tell me there was a third person with them.”

“What does it matter? She’s dead.”

“How did that happen?”

“They were approaching the wall. They’re lucky they aren’t all dead.”

I can tell she’s trying hard to hold her temper as she says, “Yes, the other man is ours. I’ll take him, too.”

“What did they do with Clora’s body?” I ask her in English.

She asks the man.

He turns to the other civilian. They whisper for a moment before the seated man looks back and says, “It’s scheduled for disposal.”

“I’ll take her, too,” Langer says.

The man snorts. “No problem.”

Langer bows deeply. “You have the deepest thanks of the Trinity Education Counsel. Professor Dumont wanted me to convey that if you ever need anything from us, all you need to do is ask.”

In a bored voice, the man says, “I’ll keep that in mind.

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