Chapter Forty-Seven

Luck was with them as they slipped through the door and scurried across the wide, well-lit corridor and into the shadows.  There was no sign of life, but they dared not speak.  Drawing from her experience as a prisoner in the past, Kendra behaved as she had while escaping from the alien camp on the surface and slipped from shadow to shadow as silently as possible.

Once again, Olga telepathically spoke to Kendra. “These bastards speak a crazy language, but I managed to decipher the location of Eugene.  Look for a door with two ‘X’s’, an upside down ‘V’ and an ‘O’ on it in the west wing.  That’s where he is. Hurry, they’re preparing to send a search party out for our bodies.”

Feeling the pressure of the urgency, Kendra motioned for Pete and Felix to follow her as she turned a corner and began surveying the writing on the doors.  They were already in the west wing, but she saw nothi