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The train was magnetic and ran smoothly over the metal rails.
It leaned over, taking out the worst of the forces working against it.
“I’m not giving you anything until I know she’s okay!” I said resolutely.
He got up in my face. “You’ll give me the Orb andthenyou will learn your sister’s fate.”
I didn’t much like the sound of that but what else could I do?
I took the Orb out and handed it to him.
He barely even looked at it before he shoved it into his pocket.
Heaving a sigh of relief that this ordeal was finally over, I watched as the train pulled to a stop at the next station.
And then my heart seized when the little leader took me by the arm and dragged me out with him.
“But… I thought…”
“That I would trust you to hand me the real Orb?” the little leader said. “Oh no, no, no. I’m not in the business of trust, my girl. I’m in the insurance business. Andyouare my insurance. Come.”
He pulled me down the platform but instead of going up the stairs to the station, he moved to a metal door perfectly flush and built into the wall.
It had no handle or scan either.
The little leader raised a hand to his collar and pulled it up to his lips and muttered something I couldn’t hear.
The doorthunked and released, drifting open a couple of inches.
He shoved me inside before stepping in behind me.
It was completely dark in there and the little leader slapped his hand against the wall until he found what he was looking for and the overheard light blinked on, illuminating a long tunnel that dissolved into darkness.
“Come,” the little leader said.
“I’m not going anywhere,” I said, eying the darkness with fear.
Nothing good could be at the end of that tunnel.
And I wouldn’t allow myself to go a step further with the little leader than I had to.
“No one is coming for you, my dear,” he said. “Not beneath tiberium.”
And he rapped on the metal door with his knuckles. “No signal gets through it. So it doesn’t matter if you have one, two, or ten emergency buttons on your person.No oneis going to learn you’re in here. Now, you can either stay here and wait for no one to come or you can come with me toward the exit.”
He extended a hand to me.
I didn’t take it, causing the little leader’s scowl to deepen.
I folded my arms and shuffled into the darkness of the infinite tunnel.
I’d already activated the emergency button on the underside of my communicator and as I stepped into the darkness, stamped my foot once, twice, three times.
I didn’t know if what the little leader had said about no signal being able to pass through the door was true or not and I wasn’t about to trust him and not at leasttryto let the Governor know where I was.
But by the twisting sensation in the pit of my stomach, I thought I already knew the answer.
The tunnelreallydidseem to go on forever.
