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“That door?” she said incredulously.
“That’s right.”
“But… It’s the main entrance to the prison!”
“Is that why it’s so big?” I said, sarcasm dripping from every word.
“There will be a ton of guards arriving here any minute! How are we supposed to slip past them?”
“Will you chill out? Everything will be fine.”
She was already getting under my skin. Did I really want to have her on this trip? There was no telling how long it might take to reach the shuttlecraft.
It was because this was the very last place they expected an inmate to escape from that I felt confident it would work.
I raised the device I’d made and ran an eye over it. I fiddled with some of the cylinders on the side.
By the light of the Creator, I hoped this worked.
If it didn’t, I’d be doomed to spend the rest of my days in solitary, and there was no worse fate than that, perhaps anywhere in the galaxy.
The orange lights on either side of the giant door flashed. A moment later, they slid open. Half a dozen large shuttlecraft drifted inside and sat down in perfect rows inside the hangar.
The doors remained open.
The shuttlecraft hatch doors opened and hundreds of guards marched from each craft.
Wow. The warden really wasn’t messing around. He’d sent far more than I expected. Either the riots were worse than I thought or the warden was angry the prisoners had rioted.
If he wanted sedate prisoners, he never should have included the strongest and most powerful fighters in the galaxy.
The orange lights flashed once more and the doors began to slide shut.
The guards were still exiting the shuttlecraft. There were so many it was taking some time to unload them all.
We stood to one side of the huge shuttlecraft. If we hurried, we might slip past them without them noticing us.
“We can’t go now!” Agatha squeaked in my ear. “They’ll see us!”
“Not if we hurry.”
I had one chance to make it work, and this was it. If I didn’t go now, I would have no chance of getting out of here. I would have to turn and run back to my cell and dream about being free.
But the attempt would come at a terrible cost if I failed and got caught.
I would be sent to the bowels of the prison and never emerge again. I would never get to spend time with Agatha and she would be forced to service the other prisoners—and that was if she was lucky!
“If they catch you,” I said, taking her hand in mine. “Tell them I forced you to come with me. There’s no need for you to be punished if you can avoid it.”
She opened her mouth to speak, then cast an eye at me, and shut it.
I took a deep breath and watched as the doors continued to slowly close. I could make out the lines of electricity than ran the width and height of the doorway.
I adjusted my device slightly, taking care to peer at the security system to set the cylinders as accurately as possible.
This was it.
The last of the guards exited the shuttlecraft, carrying their shock rifles in their arms. If just one spotted us, if just one managed to successfully hit us…
