The Delivery

The mnd (micro neural device) buzzed with infantile insistence like a gnat the snuck all the way in to right above his ear drum. It would be Jessica. But he couldn’t answer; the guards would hear and that would be devastating. No one, not Jessica, not anyone could know where he was. She wouldn’t approve. None of the others would approve.

Like always, this place was dark. He was hiding in a janitor’s closet waiting for the guards to finish their patrol but the corridor outside was dark too. The footsteps decrescendoed into nothing and martin counted to ten. Then he slipped down the hallway to another closet before yet another guard rounded by. Security measures in this section had tripled. Clearly the magistrate knew where it was going to happen. But the magistrate didn’t know everything. That’s why martin was there. He had something to deliver. But the others wouldn’t approve – not even Timoteo and especially not Jagesic.

While hiding in the second closet, martin probably thought about how Jessica was worrying unnecessarily about him. She was calling him again. All the disruption in his inner ear were making him nauseous and he wished he could answer but the guards were pacing by and he only had to leap frog two more closets. He would call her once he was done. Besides he was ready to step out. He could do it as soon as he finished. Timoteo was who she should be worried about. Timoteo told him how he had successfully infiltrated the mist lady’s troop but as a prisoner he didn’t have much mobility. Even with all of the information martin had gathered from the magistrate, Timoteo would have to pull out all of the stops to make it out.

Finally jacob reached the room. The table was right where it should be. martin bent down peering up at the underside of the metallic table. He pulled out a small thin box and stuck it to the bottom of the table. After checking its stability he attached a note. In just ten hours it would be waiting there for elizabeth. It was done.

martin easily reached the nearby back exit and slipped out. No one, no one at all, had noticed his presence. As he walked away from 257 e. mahogany, he rang for Jessica Bangs. He would see her on the other side.