Through the Mirrah by K. C. Otenti

Author:K. C. Otenti [Otenti, K. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Inside Jay Ridge, Aideen approached the welcome desk. The receptionist peered up at her.

“Yes?”

Aideen wiped sweat from her brow and dried her hand on her pant leg. “I’d like to turn myself in.”

The receptionist gawked. A clerk making copies in the corner dropped their papers. Two guards conversing nearby—her friends from her last visit, Guard One and Jerry—stopped and turned to stare.

“Aideen Fitzpatrick. I’m an Alk.”

“It’s her!” Guard One pulled his gun and started toward her. Aideen put her hands up. They trembled, so she dropped them.

“I don’t want any trouble. It was a mistake, escaping. Take me back to my cell. I’ll go quietly.”

“You think I’ve forgotten the poison you threw in my face?” Guard One laughed and grabbed her by the arm. “We’ve got some place better for you.” He swung his gun at her head and the world went dark.

SHE SAT UP ON a bare cot and looked around her as her head pounded. She was in a small, concrete room that had once been white. After what must have been decades of occupants, most of the surface had been decorated in ways only the lonely incarcerated decorate. Such as the carving in the paint of a monkey doing something inappropriate to what was either a coconut or a bowling ball.

She rose from the cot on shaking legs, nausea heavy in her stomach. How long has it been? She made a mental note to grab another gojoos at her first opportunity.

A tiny window of reinforced glass was set into the solid steel door of the room, right above eye level. It mimicked a larger window on the wall across from the door. The difference was the panel which could be opened or closed from the outside. The window on the wall instead had bars which couldn’t be opened from either side.

The hatch over the door window opened, revealing a pair of hard, brown eyes. It shut again and after some jangling of keys, the door opened. Ash tossed in a pile of clothes, a pair of boots, and a holstered gun.

“We’ve got about a minute and a half. Change and let’s get out of here.” He pulled the door shut. Aideen hoped it was for privacy, and that he hadn’t had to leave her here as a guard came to check on them or something. She traded her new inmate uniform for a guard’s, hesitant about strapping on the gun. She hoped she wouldn’t need it, but she’d look suspicious without it.

Once dressed, she tapped on the door and it swung open.

“Hurry,” Ash ushered her out. “We need to get to the next floor up before anyone notices you’re gone.”

They headed for the stairs.

AIDEEN PEERED THROUGH the window in the door leading from the stairwell. This floor appeared to be empty, or at least under-staffed; the guard station was deserted.

Ash eased open the door and held it for Aideen. She followed him to the unmanned desk, eyes darting from the elevator, to the hallway, and back over her shoulder.

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