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There was no middle ground.
My boots were monstrously loud on the floor. I wished they were silent the way they were in my mind.
The sound bounced and echoed off the back wall, toward the front of the room.
In my mind’s eye, I imagined the guards turning to see what was making all that racket.
Still, as much as my senses were telling me to look, I didn’t.
I daren’t.
It could knock me off my stride, could make me see things that weren’t there.
I couldn’t take the risk.
And I kept on running.
How Agatha was keeping up with me, I had no idea, but she was.
Finally, after what felt like an eternity, we reached the closing door.
They were less than two yards apart now.
I had left it a little too late but hopefully, my device would still work.
I skidded to a halt and dropped Agatha’s hand.
I moved my device forward slowly, adjusting it again as the cajoling of the run had knocked it off-center.
I lined the cylinders up with the streaks of electricity, matching the grid pattern they created across the open door.
Once I was done with each side, I let out a breath and pressed the device into the latticework.
It hummed and crackled with power.
It sounded very dangerous—even to me.
I shoved Agatha behind me as a bolt of electricity splintered off the device and struck me.
It fried my shoulder in an instant and made my flesh burn.
I didn’t ease my grip on the device and shoved it further into place.
One by one, the shards of electricity lined up with the device’s cylinders.
Yes! It worked!
The device sparked, hurling another yellow bolt of electricity.
This one missed me and struck the rear thrusters of the shuttlecraft behind me.
“Is that it?” Agatha said between rasping breaths. “Now what?”
“I’ll show you now what,” I said.
I reached for the little lever and slid it across.
As it did, it opened up a small open doorway in the security field.
