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Chapter 21: Decision
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A dank smell assaulted her nostrils. Rough hands set Alex down. Her boots sounded smooth against the hard stone. Every little movement sent sharp bolts of pain shooting up her leg. The men who deposited her seemed to shuffle off with grumbles as if they were being herded by a silent authority.Someone bent down close to her. Their toxic breath permeated the musty sack over her head. Alex leaned away,?but strong quick fingers grabbed a handful of her hair through the bag and forced her not to move. Stinging pain shot up from her arm as her jacket was pulled completely off. She felt exposed, as if naked and on display. Fingers squeezed her triceps and then cupped her breast. Alex tried to squirm away, but the other held her head steady. The hand squeezed her bleeding thigh and she cry out. She flung her weight forward to attack in a head butt. Hair ripped from her head where the captor held. The authority figure shoved her backwards into the captor and clout her across the face, sending
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After about twenty minutes of wandering around the halls, he found a stairway down into an even lower level. Jack followed them quickly and then heard retching coming from behind him. Alex was trying to empty her already empty stomach. Must have been all the bouncing. He slowed his descent, trying to smooth his steps.Another maze of dark rooms covered the floor. No torches lit these walls. He tried to force his eyes to adjust, but just couldn't see anything. If someone was down here, he didn't want a flaming beacon of light letting them know where to shoot. He wouldn't be able to fight them off like this. With every step, Jack felt more drained, like he was stuck in a swamp. He wondered if this could be the Link working its magic to heal Alex. And if it was, maybe it would heal him in the process. It would be nice if he didn't feel so raw down there.The darkness resulted in various run-ins with the walls. Each time he heard a curt hiss as Alex's rear end touched the cold stone. Aft
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Lexi called to her. Her voice echoed off dark cold walls as she ran. It seemed like her voice was getting further away. Alex ran through the maze, but only got more lost. A warm orange light appeared in her path, she was drawn to it. She fought the feeling, her need to find Lexi burned within, but she couldn't stop. She reached out and touched the fuzzy orange light. It was warm and comforting. Her surroundings became fuzzy. Her head drooped, she tried to stay awake, to visualize the place, but it faded and became dark.Alex woke from her dream. She was indeed warm and somewhat fuzzy, or at least itchy. The water that soaked her stunk of sulfur and felt grimy. Her knees were propped over something warm which seemed to continue up and to her left. She flexed her hands. The right one was stiff, but no longer crumpled and unusable like before... before what? What had happened? Where was she? She stubbornly kept her eyes closed. It was a little game that she liked to play; it forced her b
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Alex's footsteps echoed off the concrete sides of the old cracked sewer walls. She kicked a small rock that skipped across the smooth stone floor along until it tumbled up the curved edges of the wall. She was still upset over the loss of her boots along with her handy crowbar, but at least she was still alive. Small sacrifices to get Lexi back. Any sacrifice would be enough, as long as she got her back. The starlight revealed their path as it lazily slunk through the clouds and lit the jagged path ahead.They'd been walking for five days now and their food was running low. She still felt gritty and reeked of sulfur. They hadn't found a decent amount of clean water to shower off within their long trek. All the water from these huge pipes had dried up long ago. Alex knew she was ripe, but Jack stunk so bad he was starting to draw vultures, which seemed one of the many things still alive on the surface. They circled high up in the moonlit sky, cawing their aching hunger. They spoke nast
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They walked along in silence for the next hour as they traversed the waterways into the next rundown city. The white eyed vultures cawed at them, as they jumped across the broken ceiling of the cement pipes following after their prey. The curved edges of the channels crumbled under their talons, sending dust flying into the humid night air."One sec." Alex halted Jack with a hand and knelt down to the dirt. "Can you give us some light?" She grabbed a stick and poked at the dirt. "Before we go any further into the city, I want to show you the building plans."Jack lit a small fireball in the palm of his hand and squatted down beside her as she drew squares of buildings in the dust. "See here." Alex indicated a large circle to the left of the large square. "This is where we will enter. It's deep and flooded with water. There's an entrance below the water level. That's where you are going to make a huge fireball. The hatch opens outward, which is why no one watches it. The hatch is de
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Alone now and listening to the fading footsteps of her defecting partner, Alex faced the large red letters. "Level 32" they read. Lexi was behind that door. This had to be it. Her two year fight would be over. She would be safe, Lexi would be safe. Alex sucked in the stale urine stained air and stilled her excited heart. She pushed the door open enough to peek in. Using the face of her watch as a mirror, she looked down the hallway.Alex slunk down the darkened hallway like a cat. Only the floor edge lighting showed the way. Something didn't feel right. Either everyone was asleep or there was no one here. If no one was here, then why would they leave the floor lighting on? She stopped and listened for a moment. She heard no breathing coming from any of the rooms. There really was no one here, at least not on this level.Alex poked her head into a couple of rooms. They were children's rooms, with toys scattered all over the place. She took note of each room as she went, a classroom, a
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Down, down she fell until she hit the boiling water. The steam made her eyes water. She plunged into it, afraid of being boiled alive, but it just felt warm. Alex swam upwards in the murky water. She surfaced to see Jack looking down at her, just the silhouette of his head against the ceiling, and then he disappeared. The bodies of the four Alphas rose to the top, face down and definitely dead.?The end of the other rope still hung down, she gave it a good yank and it didn't fall.She started to climb. Again. Her muscles were already sore from doing this once. Stupid Jack. What was wrong with him? What an asshole. How could he do this to her? She brought him here. She upheld her end of the bargain. Damn it, if it weren't for her, he would still be getting raped by those creepy mole people.She climbed higher and higher. Why? Just why?Finally, she reached the top. Again. Alex poked her head up over the edge looking for Jack. She imagined him sitting there, ready to kill her or push h
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