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“They’re going to see us,” Emana said.
“Can you slow them down?” I said.
“How long do you need?”
“A couple of minutes.”
Emana picked up the fallen bedsheets and tugged them over us. We continued scrambling for the displaced rocks.
They all looked the same! How could they all look the same?
Had I chosen the wrong section of wall? Had someone found the loose rocks and fixed them?
Above, the boots came to a stop and the Changeling guards peered over the side. We couldn’t make them out through the material.
But we knew they were there. Looking down at us.
“You’ve got until they start pulling these sheets off us,” Emana said.
“What happens then?” I said.
Emana whipped out a blaster pistol and took aim at the top of the wall.
“Then things get real noisy,” she said.
I sure hoped it wouldn’t come to that. I’d seen what bolts of condensed energy could do to a living creature. It wasn’t pretty. I didn’t want that happening to my body.
I focused on the rocks.
One stone shifted beneath my hands.
The sheets began to move, slithering up the wall as the guards pulled them up.
We were perched under the final sheet. We would be visible for sure within the next ten seconds.
I felt at the adjacent rocks and they gave way too.
This must be it.
I shoved several aside, producing a hole.
I placed my face in front of it and peered through—no way I was sticking anything through there. I’d seen Indiana Jones.
There was something on the other side.
Empty space.
I tossed a small stone through the hole. It bounced across the surface and hit something on the other side. A wall.
“How are we doing?” Emana said, aiming with her pistol through the sheet. She would open fire the instant it was yanked free.
“Almost… there,” I said, working another rock free. It wasn’t yet wide enough to fit my fat ass through.
Why didn’t I stick to just one of my many diets?
The sheets shifted as they unfurled further up the wall.
I grabbed the last rock and slid it aside. I wasted no time and slithered forward on my arms. I grazed my shoulders and elbows on my way through. I wriggled until I reached the other side.
