The Child Thief 5: Ghost Towns by Forrest Bella

Author:Forrest, Bella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight Press
Published: 2018-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

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My shock was initially too strong for my fear to overcome. We weren’t alone in Millville. There were agents north of the factory that we had just been in. According to our GPS watches, they were coming down the very road that Jace and I were on, and they were coming fast. I processed all of that information in less than a second and heard Jace telling me to run. But it took seeing him bounding away down the broken main street of Millville before my synapses finally started firing again. My muscles sprang to life, and I began to race after him.

We had to get back to the ship.

The main street was a downward slope leading back to the woods we had left the airship in. But we were at least a full mile away from the mucky clearing that we had landed in. And according to our GPS watches, the agents were about a half mile behind us, and coming down the road fast, likely in patrol vehicles. They’d overtake us shortly.

“Jace!” I hissed to his back several feet ahead of me. He was fast, but I was keeping pace.

He didn’t slow down. He turned over his shoulder to acknowledge me, but continued to run.

I tried to keep my voice down through my panting breaths.

“We can’t outrun them in a straight line,” I spat out.

At that he finally began to slow, but his face was panicked when he turned back to face me again.

“Robin, we can’t hide here. We have to keep running!”

He whipped around and began to speed up again, his right foot splashing into a black puddle in a pothole, and I continued to run after him.

I couldn’t think of a reason why agents would be in Millville. They might be patrolling to find people, which would put us at a huge disadvantage no matter where we hid. And no matter what, we looked suspicious running away from them. The only safe option was to get out of Millville.

But the agents were coming quickly. My watch showed that they were at the factory now. If we were lucky, maybe they’d notice the broken window and decide to search the factory for intruders or looters. But if they didn’t see that detail, or if they did and started splitting up in an attempt to find whoever had done it, they could be coming down the main street any second. I whipped my head back around to look. A bend in the road blocked my view of the factory. But my watch showed that agents were there and they weren’t stopping.

I turned. There was a strip of very barren woods on the right side of the road, but it was barely enough to provide us with any cover. It was only a couple of feet wide and mostly made up of dead trees and waist-high weeds. On our left was the apartment building. That’d be the first place the agents would look if they were patrolling. Which meant we didn’t have a choice.

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