Escape From Cidhna Mine Novels & Stories

It was just enough. The exodus happened in spring—a rare, perfect evening when the lights glitched and the locks on every cell door cycled open for five seconds. That was all they needed. Elena was ready. The children, muscle memory trained from a hundred games and drills, spilled into the yard, gathering each other in waves. They ran not for the perimeter, but for the hidden elevator shaft behind the abandoned inspection block. Mira was waiting, as promised. Finch had already popped open the doors. The triplets, faces painted with their own blood, slammed themselves against the first two guards and bought the others a window.

Once clear, the machines pulsed a second wave, and, while I was drinking wine at the dinner table, walls and roofs came down. As I cut a slice of the fresh lemon cake I had brought with me, for dessert, a human train was running underneath the debris of warehouses three hundred miles from my location. A train of twenty-one kids and seventeen adults, with five of my team leading and guarding the escapees. And while I was fondling the dearest brother of the broker of sorrow and misery, that tunnel had exploded, all the way along its length. Hiding any evidence of who or how many people had passed through it.

My left arm, the obsidian monument, was a senseless weight, but I used it as a shield, the stone-flesh reflecting the kinetic shrapnel like a basalt wall. "Ryan! Extraction! NOW!" I shrieked into the void. The "Ghost/Admin" frequency on my wrist terminal flared a final, dying blue. It wasn't Kael. It was the legacy he had left in the hardware. [EXTRACTION INITIATED: CITADEL ESCAPE POD 02] [TARGET: THE SURFACE] The floor beneath us gave way. We weren't falling into the dark this time. We were being launched through the burning ribs of the tower, hurtling toward the bruised blue marble of the Earth below.

He asked in a careful tone and that made me a little suspicious. "Why?" "Because I want you to join us for brunch tomorrow." "Brunch? Where?" "Lisa's restaurant." He said as he turned to see my mom brought 3 glasses of purple smoothies. "Why? Cody's back?" I asked because Cody, my cousin, lives in London to study and Lisa is his older sister. "No, I wanted to introduce you to my close friend, Pierce." "Uhmm okay.." I said and I turned to see my mom putting a big glass of smoothie in front of me.

, she said weakly. "Roger failed the mission. Eida was supposed to die. We were going to avenge Niklassa". "By what? Starting a war. You're the reason I'm in chains". "Freedom comes at a cost". "You're in hiding. You're a genocidal monster and when they come for you...". "I have an inside man. He's going to help you escape. Find the Five Barriers then switch them off. We'll charge in and extract you. Good luck".

Stomach churned, but I needed the fuel to keep standing, let alone fighting. The shelter sat deep underground, behind thick doors and layers of stone and packed earth. Twenty feet of barrier between the children and the chaos topside. Guards nodded us through every checkpoint. Helena ran it tight—shifts rotating, supplies stocked, escape tunnels mapped just in case. We found Erica in the main chamber, cross-legged on blankets with a cluster of little ones. She read from a worn picture book, voice steady, about a brave wolf who outsmarted hunters to save her pack. The kids leaned in, wide-eyed, hanging on every word. She kept them calm, distracted.

** ORCHID We return to the mineshaft under cover of darkness, leaving the stolen vehicle where it will be found by one of the patrols. Hopefully they give it back to the guy we took it from. I don't like to steal, but in this case it was necessary. We had to leave the city and go back to the Zone. Truk leads us down the memory mine shaft, as we have no light this time. We reach the end just before sunrise and are able to escape before any of the guards on the far wall can spot us.

She pressed the door and said in a low voice. The door opened. A tall and thin man walked in with a worried look on his face. "Madam, Yadriel has escaped from Sunshine Mountain. Hansen has brought Sara and Jenna back," the man said as soon as he entered. Lilian's whole body relaxed. "How are they?" She continued to ask. The man wanted to say something but stopped on second thought. "What is it? Tell me." Lilian's heart started to beat faster and she immediately asked.

I offered them food but they refused me. When I finished, I said goodbye to CR and that's when I had the chance to escape from my guards. How? Simple, I climbed out the CR window and slipped through the backstreets of Chinatown. I even beat the ninja with my ability to wear it. In no time, I was running away from Chinatown. And I'm laughing in my mind because I've got the MIB in my head. I took the rail transit to Sta. Rita Valley then subways to San Jose. I'm used to this part of Northern California because I used to have an assignment near here.

Back at the underground city's POV: “Do you know where you’re going?” One of the little girls asked. “lil girl, we don’t even know where we at so, no we don’t know where we’re going, but that doesn’t mean we don’t try and find a way out. Trixie said, looking around ducking behind a rock wall when she saw a guard walking pass. They have been running for the last ten minutes, and it looked like they were going around in circles. Everything looked the same. Dirt walls, dirt roof, and dirt floors, the only thing that wasn’t made of dirt was the bars they were metal. “INITIATING EMERGNANCY LOCK DOWN! ALL GRUADS COVER THE EXITS! PRISONERS HAVE ESCAPE, HEAT CENSORS DETECTED MOVEMENT NEAR THE WEST