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One of the soldiers frowned at me and glanced at Molev.
“You’re wondering whose orders,” I said, reading him easily.
“It crossed my mind.”
“Molev doesn’t give orders to us or anyone else that we’ve seen.But he does have boundaries.He doesn’t like being shot at or told what to do.He’s here, willing to help us, as long as we can respect those boundaries.So pointing a gun at him and telling him to go somewhere he doesn’t want to go is counterintuitive if we really want to save what’s left of the human race.And those were our orders.Find and secure a means to end the plague.”
I gestured to Molev.“He’s secured, and he’s ready to start on the saving.”
The soldier glanced at the guy with the radio and nodded toward the house.“Go check.”
While that one jogged away, the first two stared at us.
“Are we waiting for an escort, or did you want to see him make balloon animals with your weapons?”Roland asked.
“They will escort us,” Molev said.“the general will meet us at the hospital.”
“Are you psychic or something?”one of the soldiers asked.
“What did they tell you about him?”I asked.
“It’s classified.”
I snorted.“I bet.Molev has really good hearing.It’s not a secret.”
When the soldier returned with their weapons and repeated what Molev had already announced, we started walking again, taking the next left.
By the time we reached the hospital, someone was waiting for us with more armed soldiers.
“Molev, please come with me.The rest of you are relieved of duty,” he said.
Molev crossed his arms.
“There have been a few incidents,” Roland said.“It would be better for everyone if we continued to escort him.”
He didn’t look happy but nodded.“Follow me.”
Roni and Roland cut in front of us while the rest covered our backs.I took in everything from the number of personnel inside the hospital and what they were wearing to the number of turns it took us to reach our destination.
The barren room had a table, two chairs, and a mirror set into one wall.Based on the dust coating the floor below it and the unpainted edges, it was recently installed.
“Please have a seat,” the man said.“the general will be right in.”
He didn’t try getting us to leave with him.He simply shut the door.
I glanced at Molev.He was taking in the room, looking at everything except the mirror.Was he noticing that there were no windows?No means of escape?I was, and it made me nervous.It felt like they were prepared to try to pin him down if this meeting didn’t go as they planned.I had no doubt that Molev would be just fine.I’d witness the way he’d broken through a door.His speed, strength, and agility would get him out of there.But we would be losing our only hope with him.
For the sake of Zion and the rest of the world, I hoped the general would use diplomacy.
As the minutes ticked by, the others moved around the room.Steve took a chair and kicked his feet up on the table, shrugging at Katie’s ‘cut it out’ look.Roni leaned against the back wall and grinned when Katie knocked his feet off the table.Sid pretended to stretch his back and roll his shoulders.
But none of us looked at the stupid mirror that was so damn obvious.
I faced the pointless piece of glass.“How many more people do we need to lose before we stop playing games?We did our job.Now get in here and do yours.”
Molev’s hand pressed my lower back, guiding me around the table to where Roni and Katie stood.He glanced at Roni then stood in front of all three of us.
Roni didn’t look upset like I thought she would.And the speculative look in her eyes as she studied his back seemed more thoughtful than hungry.Before I could try to figure out what she was thinking, the door opened.
