“Cipher, get up! Get up!”
Someone is shaking her awake. The Chiss woman jolts to a sitting position. A trooper is standing there, panic in his voice.
“You gotta get out of here. Commander Anders is dead. They’re coming this way.”
“Who?” The walls were rippling again, waving like weeds in a stiff breeze. Do all walls do that? She doesn’t remember.
“The cartel!”
“I got to get a message to – ”
“Forget that! Intelligence left us to die, don’t you get it? You know too much.”
“I don’t know anything.”
“They think you do.” The walls shake. Rumbling. Alarms. She presses a hand to her forehead. Something feels wrong. This isn’t Intelligence.
Numbers begin dripping from the ceiling in gooey drops. “Get your head on straight, soldier,” she snaps. “Take me to the rendezvous.”
“Yes sir!” The ground was undulating like the walls. Suddenly it stopped, becoming straight. The two of them rushed from the room, explosions thundering, metal of the wall cracking with a screech of stress.
Red lights flicker and more alarms clang. Horrible wailing and hissing. The air is gone. Blackness.
Someone is shaking her awake. The Chiss woman jolts to a sitting position. A trooper is standing there, panic in his voice.
“You gotta get out of here. Commander Anders is dead. They’re coming this way.”
“Who?” The walls were rippling again, waving like weeds in a stiff breeze. Do all walls do that? She doesn’t remember.
“The cartel!”
“I got to get a message to – ”
“Forget that! Intelligence left us to die, don’t you get it? You know too much.”
“I don’t know anything.”
“They think you do.” The walls shake. Rumbling. Alarms. She presses a hand to her forehead. Something feels wrong. This isn’t Intelligence.
Numbers begin dripping from the ceiling in gooey drops. “Get your head on straight, soldier,” she snaps. “Take me to the rendezvous.”
“Yes sir!” The ground was undulating like the walls. Suddenly it stopped, becoming straight. The two of them rushed from the room, explosions thundering, metal of the wall cracking with a screech of stress.
Red lights flicker and more alarms clang. Horrible wailing and hissing. The air is gone. Blackness.