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security of the Lower
Loop areas has been deliberately breached as a warning to
Chicago citizens. All other areas in the main Chicago district will be
similarly breached, and the citizens now in them exposed to the Rot spores, if
the members of the criminal organization known as the Citadel, who are now
occupying the Embry Tower in the Lower Loop, are not immediately removed from
that building and put outside the sterile areas."
"I repeat. The members of the Citadel now in the Embry
Tower must be removed and placed outside the sterile areas.
They must be put out at the spot where the Lower Loop was just breached,
before sunset, or the other areas of the main
Chicago district will be breached in a similar manner. We, the Committee for
the Purification of Chicago, call on all citizens to assist in securing these
criminals and seeing that they are put outside."
"I will repeat again what I have said. The breach of the
Lower Loop area was not an accident. Other areas will be breached unless the
criminals of the Citadel are removed from the Embry Tower and placed outside
by sunset. We, the
Committee for the Purification of Chicago, call on all citizens
to assist in securing these criminals & "
"Let s go," said Chaz, turning from the phone to the door nearby, leading into
the basement of the Embry Tower. He fitted a vibration key to the lock plate
and the heavy door swung open. Inside, in a small room at the foot of the
concrete staircase, were three uniformed guards all sound asleep in chairs.
Chaz grinned at Eileen. The tension of the moment already had the body
adrenaline singing in his blood.
"Beautiful, honey," he said. "I had to see it to believe in it a spell cast
through a cased steel door."
"You ought to know physical barriers don't " Eileen broke off, glancing up the
empty stairs. "Chaz!"
"What's wrong?" He swung about to stare at the harmless-looking stairs.
"Power," Eileen said, unhappily. "Someone with a terrible lot of power, up
there somewhere. Can't you feel it?"
Chaz tried, felt nothing, reached for help from the Mass, tried again and
still felt nothing. He shook his head.
"You mean somebody knows we're coming?"
"I & don't think so," said Eileen. "But whoever it is, he's the most powerful
person I've ever felt."
"He?"
"I don't know. It just feels male, somehow & "
Chaz shook his head.
"Forget it. We can't fiddle around now." He spoke over his shoulder to the
rest of them. "Come on."
He led the way up the staircase. At the fire door of the street-level landing,
Red Rover snapped to the men just behind him: "Seal that!"
Several Rovers stopped and began to melt the edges of the
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door into its heavy metal frame with their hand lasers. Chaz continued up the
stairs.
At each landing, Red Rover left men at work sealing the fire doors. But four
landings up, the staircase itself ended, abruptly and in violation of all fire
ordinances. A solid concrete wall barred their way.
"The elevators," Chaz said.
He went through the nearby fire door into what seemed to be a fourth-floor
landing. There were some doors opening on the landing, all ajar, all showing
small, empty offices. The elevator tubes were there also, but they were
halted, their floating disks hanging frozen in the transparent tubes.
"Think they expected us, after all?" Red Rover asked.
"Maybe," said Chaz. "Maybe just an automatic protective reaction switched them
off when the emergency phone broadcast came on, or the guards down in the
lobby found out we were here."
Below them, from the stairwell, they could hear a crackling noise as the lobby
guards, alerted by the heat radiating from the half-melted edges of the sealed
fire door at that level, were now trying to cut through the door from their
own side.
Luckily it was easier to seal a door with a laser than to open it with such a
weapon after it was sealed.
"What then?" Rover said.
"I thought of something like this," Chaz said. "Eileen's been held in this
building before. She's got a memory of the room she was kept in. If she and I
can transfer to that room, maybe we can get the elevators going for the rest
of you. Give me the recorder and the suit bag."
He reached out; and the Rover with the portable phone recorder, slung like a
satchel from one shoulder, lifted it off and passed it to him. Chaz slung the
strap over his own right shoulder and turned to Eileen. He took the suit bag
another
Rover passed him and produced a pair of airsuits, handing one to Eileen.
"What's that for?" Red Rover asked. Chaz did not take time to answer until he
and Eileen were both suited up. He watched Eileen close her faceplate, then
turned to Rover before sealing his own.
"I'll try taking her out to the Mass and back in again," he said. "It worked
in rehearsal, but then we both knew where we wanted to come back to. If it
doesn't work this time, take your Rovers back out and mingle with whatever
crowd shows up in the square. Give us five minutes, then leave. But keep your
portable phone open for any word from me. All right?"
"Right enough," said Red Rover.
Chaz reached with his gloved hand for Eileen's. He winked at her through his
faceplate, in signal. These particular airsuits had no phones.
The landing around them blinked out. There was a glimpse of starlight and the
Mass platform apparently standing up vertically alongside them to their right,
then they were in what looked like an ordinary, condominium one-room
apartment.
Chaz looked at Eileen. She was nodding and smiling through her faceplate as
she unsealed it so that he could hear her speak. He reached up and unsealed
his own.
As he pulled it open to the room air, a sudden dizziness took him. He opened
his mouth to shout a warning at Eileen;
but saw her with her own suit unsealed and already falling. A
moment of disorientation took him and &
He opened his eyes to find himself out of the airsuit entirely and seated in a [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]