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A narrow tunnel greeted me with sconces lined at regular intervals along the wall. Not quite as empty as I thought it was.
“A little help?” Emana said.
Her ass—firm though it was—was also not the smallest in the galaxy. It was bulbous and round—all the rage with men back on Earth these days. I didn’t tell her about that. I doubted she would have been appreciative.
I grabbed her by the forearms and braced a foot on either side of the hole. I pulled hard but she wouldn’t come free.
Voices shouted on the other side of the wall. The guards must be shouting at a flapping pair of legs.
Any second, they might fire…
“Get me out of here!” Emana screamed.
I worked her left and right. She slipped through one inch at a time until…
Our heads smacked and I got a face full of her.
She pulled her legs up behind herself and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
I got down on my front and began putting the rocks back in place.
“Don’t bother,” Emana said. “We don’t have time. And they’ll only shoot us full of holes if they see us. Come on.”
She took up her pistol and led us down the long hall.
My legs were shaking. How could she take all this in her stride?
It came with being a badass Titan, I guess.
We followed the long passageway as it wound through the thick darkness. In some places, the hallway was very low and even I had to crouch down to fit through it. Then it grew so narrow I had to expel the air from my lungs to squeeze through. It was difficult for me and almost impossible for Emana to negotiate.
“How did you not know about this place?” I said. “I thought all you kids would be playing together, discovering these secret passages.”
“I was more of a puppy and doll kind of girl,” Emana said.
That was the very last thing I expected her to say.
“What?” Emana said, noticing the expression on my face. “You thought I was a tomboy growing up?”
“Kinda,” I said. “Yeah.”
She grinned.
“That didn’t happen until later,” she said.
We turned a corner and the hallway came to an end.
“It’s a dead-end,” I said. “We must have needed to turn off somewhere.”
“Are you sure?” Emana said. “What did my brother say? He’s usually pretty good at giving instructions.”
“He said to keep going until we reached the end. It will open onto the prison and we’ll have full access to the cells.”
Emana edged all the way to the dead-end and placed her hands on the solid wall of stone. No way she was going to push it aside. She perked up and turned back to me.
“I told you he was good at instructions,” she said.
I met her at the end wall. As I drew closer, I witnessed the optical illusion as the wall on one side fell away. The crack wasn’t big but it was enough for us to slip through. Beyond that, a long row of bars and a set of cages awaited us.
