The Black River (The Complete Adrift Trilogy) by K.R. Griffiths

Author:K.R. Griffiths [Griffiths, K.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

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It didn’t take long to cross the corridor; certainly not long enough for Conny to believe it could possibly offer a way out of the tunnels. She prayed that the steel door at the far end would not be locked, trying not to picture the result if it was: trapped in a dead-end corridor, with only the tunnel she had just fled from as an exit.

When she reached the door, she flicked off her light once more and put a calming hand on the back of Remy’s neck. Wincing, she grabbed the cool steel handle and twisted gently, letting out a soft sigh of relief as the door opened, and stale air washed over her.

And not just air.

To her right, the impenetrable darkness melted away, and was replaced by a soft orange glow.

Light.

It was one of the missing Tube trains, sitting silently on the track like some eerie museum exhibit. The typical surgical-white lighting of the carriages was gone, and in its place there was what she guessed were emergency lights. The train must have suffered some sort of mechanical failure.

She dropped her eyes to Remy.

He was staring at the train curiously, but he looked relaxed enough.

Conny headed toward the train, keeping her gun levelled, scanning for movement. Approaching from the front, she had a long time to stare at the smashed front windows, and the torn corpse draped across them. A vast dark stain blossomed beneath the prone body of the driver, almost covering the nose of the train.

When she drew parallel with the front of the train, she peeked through the open door. The driver’s controls had been smashed in, and the cab was a tangled web of ripped cabling and smashed circuit boards. It almost looked like the work of one of the creatures; a frenzied, animal attack. But why?

To disable the lights?

It made no sense. The things were animals, weren’t they? Or monsters? She had no trouble believing that the creatures could have smashed their way into the train and killed the driver, but how would they know how to cut the lights…and why would they even bother? Without the driver, the passengers were sitting ducks, lights or no lights. If a group of armed police couldn’t fight one of them, a bunch of terrified commuters trapped inside a stopped train would have stood no chance.

Despite that certainty, Conny’s attempts to steel herself for what the rest of the train might contain fell short.

Way short.

A glimpse through the smashed windows of the first carriage was enough for Conny to truly grasp that what was happening in the tunnels below London really was far above her paygrade. Shit, it had to be above everybody’s.

The passengers inside had been slaughtered—no, shredded—by something. What was left in the carriage, pooled on seats and splashed up walls, looked more like a grisly stew than human bodies. Conny’s eye fell on a dismembered foot here, an exposed jawbone there. Something sitting on a seat, which looked for all the world like a severed head with a human heart stuffed into its final scream.

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