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Chapter 16: Eleven Days Left
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I read it thrice before my hands stopped shaking.Then I folded the paper along its crease, closed my fist around the ring, and walked to the door. The young guard straightened as it opened, his rifle clutched against his chest."What's your name?" I asked."Joss, my lady.""Joss, who relieved the last man on this post?""Nobody, my lady. I came on at midnight. The Commander put me here himself.""Has anyone brought you anything? Food, water, a message?"He blinked. "No, my lady. Only the order to seal the doors."I looked at the sweat on his upper lip, at the whites of his eyes, at the way his fingers worked on the rifle's stock. He was telling the truth. He was also terrified, and I would not be the one to make it worse."Go and find Commander Wolfe," I said. "Tell him I need him in my room. Tell him to come alone."He ran.Cassian read the note standing, with the lamp held low. I watched the muscles on his jaw twitch. When he had finished, he lowered the paper and stood looking at
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"Nine days," I said.The words tasted bad in my mouth, like wet clay on my tongue.Cassian had already turned and was running down the corridor, and I went after him, and found that my legs had very little left in them. After I left the vault, I felt hollow, as if someone had scooped out the center of my being and left an empty shell standing."Aurora," he said, over his shoulder, "slow down.""I'm not slowing down.""Then I'll carry you.""Don't."He slowed down and dropped back, waiting for me to catch up, then gently placed an arm around my waist, and let me place most of my weight on him.The lamps were still dark. Tristan's order had been followed properly. We went through the infirmary by the light of Cassian's torch, past rows of cots where patients lay with their blankets drawn up to their chins and their eyes wide open, watching us pass without a word.Imara was waiting at the storeroom door. She had a lantern in one hand. When she saw us, she stepped aside without speaking.
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The bell rang again, the fourth time since the quake that shook the fortress from within, and every soul on the east wall flinched at once.Cassian and I were still standing where the first toll had found us, at the parapet above the long wall.Nobody had moved. Men who had held this wall through blizzards, ropes, and hooks from enemy forces gripped the stone with white knuckles.Somewhere down the line, a child began to wail. A woman was praying aloud in an almost hysterical manner, her words tumbling without meaning.It was not a sound you heard so much as one that came up through the rock, into your feet, teeth, the very bones of your body.The vault was ringing, and it was calling for me."Hold your positions, men!" Cassian's voice cracked across the rampart like a whip. "It isn't an attack. Hold your positions!""Aurora." He held both my shoulders. "Look at me. Say something.""It's not going to stop.""Then we make it stop.""You can't." I tried to laugh, and it came out a gasp.
Apocalypse Fortress Chapter 16: Eleven Days Left
Nobody moved until the sound of the guards' boots had died away down the corridor.Then Tristan let out a long, shaky breath and slid down the wall until he was sitting on the stone with his knees drawn up."Bait," he said. "She cut the line and she waited for you to come down and spend yourself heating it, weakening yourself." He laughed, a thin, unhappy sound. "And I aided her plan by handing you the cable.""You didn't hand me anything," I said. "I asked for it.""That's no better, is it?""Enough." Cassian's voice was firm, and both of us stopped.He had not let go of my hand. In the dim light, with the dried blood on his cheek and the cut over his eyebrow reopened, he looked like a man holding himself upright by will alone."We aren't doing this in a service tunnel at three in the morning. Tristan, check the east section, every inch. Then afterward, get some rest. Aurora, you're coming with me," he said, lifting my hands in an attempt to carry me."I can walk," I said."You can tr
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"Cassian?"My voice went down the black service corridor and did not return.No answer. No footsteps. Only the faint, patient drip of water from a pipe somewhere ahead, and the sound of my own breathing, quick and shallow.I put a hand on the wall and pushed, and the world tilted and steadied itself."Don't," Tristan said, gripping my elbow. "You've gone down twice tonight.""Then help me up and be quiet."He hauled me to my feet and snapped on the torch from his belt. A narrow yellow beam cut the dark. The service corridor ran straight and low, its ceiling crowded with pipes and bundled cable, a dozen black conduits snaking along the rock like the roots of something buried.I could feel the cold in the walls. It was a different cold from the vault's, a hungry, creeping one, as if the mountain were drawing breath through its teeth."This feeds the east wall," Tristan whispered, sweeping the beam along the cable runs. "Every line in here leads to the long section. If someone's been in
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