Sorry, this is a very, very short chapter!
It was so hard staying still. It was completely dark and also impossible to hear. All I actually heard was my racing heartbeat and my ragged breathing. I could feel the panic kick in again. My claustrophobia made it very hard for me to keep calm. I remembered what the Doctor had told me when we were crawling through the tunnel.
"Hey, you´re doing fine, don´t let the panic get to you!"
I wish I could.
"You can do this!"
No, I really can´t! I notced my breathing becoming even faster and heavier. Although I knew that I needed to save the air in the coffin I couldn´t stop myself from panting.
"All you have to do is breathe calmly and regularly."
I closed my eyes and took a deep, slow breath in. And breathed out and in again. It worked, my heartbeat slowed down and I felt myself calm down a bit. I couldn´t prevent myself from trembling though and I was a bit afraid of accidentaly firing my gun which I held in my hands in case one of the soldiers opened the coffin.
The feeling for time completely got lost and I already felt the air inside the coffin getting thinner. If at least I could hear something!
I screamed when the coffin got open and pointed my gun to the face looking down on me.
"Woah! It´s me! Look, it´s me!"
Heavily breathing I put the gun down and looked into Tom´s concerned face.
"Jesus Christ, you scared the shit out of me!"
He helped me get out and I could see Jessy on the other side of the room as she helped Clara getting out of her coffin. I tried do ignore the bodies of the dead soldiers on the floor.
"That was really clever.", Tom smiled at me and I nodded.
His shirt and trousers were full of blood and Jessy didn´t look any better.
"We need to get in, fast. There will be more coming. We managed to takethem all down, a few of us haven´t survived, we need to go."
Before I could tell her how sorry I was for their losses I got dragged out of the room by Tom and we hurried to get out of the cellar.
"Come on!"
Upstairs Jeremiah and the remaining men were waiting for us. We ran straight towards the gate which stood wide open now and into the centre of the city.
"Haha!", Jessy yelled smiling and pointed towards a group of vehicles, including a tank.
"It´s our lucky day today!"