The Tower by Kieran Legend

Author:Kieran Legend [Legend, Kieran]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kieran Legend

A sharp knock at the door stirred her from her slumber, but it didn't seem like morning yet. She looked around the room in a stupor to see that it was only 3am, taking the briefest of moments to contemplate how ridiculous it was that they were still keeping time after the fallen of humanity, before she remembered what had woken her up; the door. Elsie was fast asleep, but the knock came again. With a sense of resignation, she picked herself up and rummaged around for something to carry with her, finding the discarded tray that she had charged into the room with before and picking it up yet again. The view through the peephole took her off guard—Tom was standing there, fully decked out.

"Tom," she whispered, opening the door, "you half-scared me to death. We're sleeping, what are you doing?"

"Getting out of here," he said. His eyes scanned the hallway, and he kept his voice low—lower than usual. "C'mon."

"What? Are you kidding? Stuart told us that..."

"Stuart is one of Branch's toadies, he can't be trusted. We need to go. Now."

"If we run, they'll chase us, though," she said. Stuart told her to stay and that he could try to protect them, but she knew that right answer was for Tom to go.

"We don't know that."

"Stuart told me they would, that we are prisoners. He said that he could protect Elsie and I, but for you... Well, he said that you should try to run."

TK paused, swallowing hard.

"I know that this isn't ideal, but I think that we should stay. For now."

"There's no later, doc. It's now or never. I'm leaving, you can come with me, but I understand if you don't want to."

"It's not that I don't want to, it's Elsie. Tom, the girl has seen enough. What are we going to do, hitch onto the back of your bike and hold on for dear life while we run from this place? Then where to? There's nowhere else to go. This place isn't ideal, no, but until we have a plan, I'm afraid of what will happen out there."

"Be afraid of what will happen here."

"I just... Tom, thank you for everything. Please, if you find something, come back for us. Please?"

He nodded and turned his back without saying goodbye, striding down the hallway until he rounded the corner for the elevators. Like that he was gone, just as unceremoniously as he had entered her life. There he was, leaving it. She didn't want to think this encounter would be the last she saw of him, but something about it felt final. His words nagged at her. This was a terrible, terrible place full of terrible, terrible people and he needed to run. But she felt so helpless, so trapped and alone.

There she was, trying to find a way to keep herself and Elsie safe, but it felt wrong to stay and let Tom run off on his own. What Stuart said echoed in her mind; he said it

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