Journal #13
Hey guys! Cool little gadget isn't it. It's called a Messenger, great name, eh? To start off I'm not on Veelox. I was planning on going there but things changed. After I left you guys, Gunny and I went to the now familiar flume in the abandoned subway station in New York City. The ride to Veelox was uneventful; Gunny and I each went separately through the flume. I hoped that Saint Dane hadn't caused too much trouble already in Veelox and that Aja Killian would understand just how powerful Saint Dane really was. Veelox was just as it had been the last time I was there with Spader, completely dark. I waited for Gunny and hoped that my eyes would adjust to the darkness so that I could see where I was. I moved slightly to the right so that Gunny wouldn't knock me down once he arrived, I waited a couple more seconds and Gunny appeared.
"It's really dark here!" exclaimed Gunny.
"Yeah, this was the way it was last time Spader and I came."
Then suddenly just as before the huge head of Aja Killian appeared above us. "You are late again," she said irritably. "Saint Dane has left Veelox already"
"What?" I said, "You mean he isn't here?"
"That's what I just told you, moron!" yelled Aja.
"Where has he gone to then?" Gunny asked.
"Xelios," replied Aja.
"Xelios? Never heard of it, have you been there," I asked Gunny.
"Nope, but if that's where Saint Dane went then that's were we need to head to."
"Yes, just leave, I can take care of myself thank you very much!" snapped Aja.
"Fine, fine," I said, "I guess we should go to Xelios." I turned to Gunny. "You do the honors."
"Xelios!" he yelled and we headed to our next territory.
The flume ride was uneventful though we seemed to be going much faster than we had the other times I had rode the flumes. I asked Gunny what he thought was the reason for the faster flume ride. He said that maybe it was because Xelios was a lot farther away than the other territories had been. We landed in what looked like a mine, it was definitely abandoned because everything was dusty and all the lights were broken.
"Well, we made it" I said.
"Yes, but what do we do now?" asked Gunny.
"Let's get on some Xelios clothing and try to find a way to the surface,"
"Sounds good, but where are the clothes?" asked Gunny as he searched around the small cave.
"Wonderful," I said sarcastically looking in the opposite direction Gunny was. We both searched the cave top to bottom but there were no clothing or any other equipment that the acolytes usually left Travelers so that they could blend in with the people of the territory.
"Maybe the people of Xelios dress similar to us?" I said hopefully.
"I highly doubt it," replied Gunny, "Plus, how would the acolytes know what territory we have come from?"
"Good question," I said, "I think it's about time we learned something about these acolytes."
Gunny nodded, "So should we just wear what we have on?"
"It doesn't look like we have much choice, hopefully we'll be able to find someplace to get clothes before too many people notice us." I said, as I started towards the tunnel that hopefully led outside. Gunny slowly followed, giving one last look at the cave in case he had missed something but there was nothing but rocky walls and the door to the flume with the star on it. We walked slightly uphill for about ten minutes, though it seemed like hours, in almost complete darkness before we saw a small sliver of light coming from the end of the tunnel.
"Finally," I said, quickening my pace.
Gunny and I reached a door where the light was streaming in from the bottom. Gunny looked to me expectantly.
"Here's goes nothing," I said and opened the door. Both Gunny and I had to shield our eyes from the harsh light. Once our eyes adjusted to brightness we looked around. The first thing I noticed was that Xelios had two suns unlike 2nd Earth. If you remember Denduron had three suns. Xelios's suns however were quite different from each other, one was high in the sky and looked very similar to our own sun, it was too bright for me to look directly at but had a yellowish tint to it. The other sun however was a dull orange color and was barely above the horizon.
"Wow!" commented Gunny as he gazed at the two suns.
"That's different from back home," I said.
From where Gunny and I were standing we could see nothing but open farmland, it kind of reminded me of Grallion back on Cloral with their huge farms. But this was on the surface of the planet and the plants looked like our corn only that they were lower in the ground and the husks were a reddish color. The strange thing was that I didn't see any people working in the fields; the land was flat so I could see a long ways all around me but not a person was in sight.
"Kinda empty, isn't it?" I said.
Gunny smiled and pointed towards a small building to our right, it looked a long ways off but that was the only thing we saw except farms so we headed towards it. As we walked I noticed that the ground was a lot softer than our ground on 2nd Earth. It was almost squishy. Gunny seemed to have noticed too because he was trying to walk very lightly so as to not disturb the ground. I looked at him and he grinned, this was definitely not like home. We reached the building, which was a lot larger than I had first thought. It resembled a gas station with pump looking things outside of it. We headed to a door but as we got closer to it we found out that there wasn't a doorknob, I tried pushing it but it wouldn't budge.
"Look!" said Gunny pointing to a square pad beside the door. I pushed it but nothing happened, then thinking that it was one of those palm reader things I put my hand face down on the pad. The pad lit up but the door didn't open.
"Here, let me try," Gunny said putting his hand face down on the pad. Still nothing happened.
"Well so much for getting in," I said. I turned around and slumped down against the door looking out towards the fields. That's when I noticed something I hadn't seen before. It was a huge building of some sort floating a couple hundred feet in the sky. Gunny and I had had our backs to it before when we had first come out of the mine, so we hadn't seen it.
"Gunny, turn around!" I said jumping up and pointing. Gunny looked at the building and his mouth fell open.
"My god, what is that?" he said. We both continued to stare at the massive structure high in the air until somebody tapped me on the shoulder from behind.
"Ahh!" I yelled spinning around thinking it was Saint Dane; only to come face to face with a large, burly man dressed in gray pants and a blue tunic, he had a badge on his shirt that resembled a police officers badge back on 2nd Earth.
"What are you two think you're doing?" he yelled, the man had a nasty looking weapon which I assumed was a gun, it was silver and sleek with markings on it that I couldn't read. By then Gunny had turned around also. Gunny looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. I guess it was up to me to explain things.
"Well, we kind of umm, got lost." I said and smiled my most innocent looking smile.
The guy, who assumed was a guard, didn't buy it though, "You are not allowed down here unless you are of the Brown," he said sternly.
I didn't have a clue what this guy was talking about so I just lied. "Well, you see, we fell down from up there" I pointed to the buildings in the sky.
"Oh you just fell down, did you?" smirked the guard sarcastically. This was not going well.
"Uhh, yeah." I said. Gunny nodded in agreement.
The guard gave us a disbelieving look, one that said, "Yeah, right you crazy lunatics!"
"Stay right there and don't move!" the guard commanded he still had his gun out and pointed at us so he really didn't need to worry about us moving. I wasn't about to try and get away from this dude, he looked like he knew what he was doing and would probably shoot us before we got three feet away. The guard then took a small device, which looked like a phone, out of his pocket and spoke into it. "I've got two trespassers on the surface who are definitely off their rockers, they aren't even wearing the proper attire. Where do you want me to send them?"
Then a voice came through the device, "Take them to Kyliger on Platform E," the voice on the other end sounded weird, like it was a computer or something. Gunny looked at me as if to say, should we make a break for it. I shook my head, at least this way we would find out more about this strange territory, though with some of the things I've seen this territory was actually quite normal.
"Follow me, you two!" the guard said. He put his hand right where had both tried to get into the building, on the palm pad next to the door. This time though, the pad lit up and the doors opened. A mechanical voice said, "Welcome back Captain Towes,"
"How did that machine work for you?" exclaimed Gunny looking confused.
"It worked because I'm supposed to be on the surface, patrolling for people like you who aren't supposed to be here. What's with you guys? Have you forgotten that palm pads only work for the people it's programmed for? You must be more nuts than I thought." said the guard. Gunny looked extremely confused. Don't forget that Gunny is from 3rd Earth, which is 1937, he has no idea what a computer is let alone something that reads your palm.
"Where are you taking us?" I asked the guard as we walked into the building.
"To a holding cell until we decide how to punish you. What are you guys, some Whites trying to get the Browns to rise against us? You need to stop all this fussing and just live in the class that you are placed in."
Ok, sure, I thought not knowing what this guard was talking about. Whites? Browns? Maybe it was some tribes or ethnic groups that didn't get along. I remembered learning about the Titanic and there being a first, second, and third class on the boat. A lot of the third and second-class passengers had died because there were only enough lifeboats for the first class passengers. The guard led us through the building, which was quite plain; all it had were some white desks with nothing on them and a long wall at one end with a mirror. We stopped at a door near the full-length mirror. The guard put his hand on another palm pad, this time the door opened and the voice said, "You are now entering Platform E," The guard motioned with his gun for us to go in. Gunny and I stepped into what seemed like an elevator of some sort. It was about the same size as an elevator and only had the one door but there wasn't a place to push what floor you wanted to go to. The guard walked in after us and closed the door. He then put his hand to another palm pad, these people sure like palm pads. Instead of opening a door the room, which was definitely an elevator started to move upwards. The ride was smooth but it felt like we were going much faster than a normal elevator would, it wasn't quite as fast as the elevator on Cloral in the city of Faar but it was still much faster than a 2nd Earth elevator. The room didn't have any windows so I couldn't see how high up we went. The thing that was bothering me was that I had seen this building up close and had not seen any way an elevator could go up. The building had only been one story tall. Now I was really confused. The elevator slowed to a stop and the doors opened. What I saw next astounded me. We stepped out into what seemed like an indoor mall or actually an indoor city; this must be what those floating buildings were in the sky, I thought. Large buildings and stores went for miles in all directions. People were walking about their business, and it felt much like a street in New York City would feel. Gunny touched my shoulder and pointed up. I tilted my head and stared at even more levels above me of the buildings, I could make out houses on one level and what looked like a school or library on another.
"Whoa!" was all I could say. This was awesome, a whole city in the air.
"Let's go! It's not like you haven't ever been to Platform E before!" yelled the guard and pulled us towards a black office building. The guard had no idea that we, in fact had never seen Platform E before. The guard took us into a large office building that had intricate sculpting and even columns on it, inside was even more brilliant then the outside. If the outside looked more like ancient Greek architecture the inside looked totally the opposite. Everything was very modern looking. The walls were a light blue color and the floor was a silver tile. There were more elevator doors with the same palm pads, I guess security is a big deal on Xelios. In the middle of the room was a round desk where two ladies were sitting with headpieces on. They seemed to be receptionists. They had flat screens; I guessed that they were computers, in front of them. There were only a few other people in the lobby area and all of them looked to be in a hurry. The guard led us to the desk and as we got closer I saw that the receptionists were also typing, or it would seem like typing they were pushing the flat screens directly instead of typing on a keyboard. Xelios seems to be a lot more advanced than 2nd Earth. It reminded me of 3rd Earth in a lot of ways.
"Excuse me miss," said the guard to the receptionist on the right, "I need to take these two here to the holding cell for Platform E."
The receptionist looked at us disapprovingly but smiled at the guard. "Of course, Captain Towes," she then pushed a button on a screen in front of her and one of the elevator doors to our right slide open. Did I mention that all the doors slide open they don't open like our doors on 2nd Earth?
"Thank you," the guard said pleasantly to the receptionist, and then pulled us roughly in the direction of the elevator. As we were being dragged along by the burly guard a couple of people passed us on their way to something important because the nearly ran us over. I didn't think it was wise for them to just ignore the Captain as he seemed to be in a bad mood but these people gave him no notice. The guard didn't say anything like, "Watch out!" either. Maybe he just didn't like Gunny and I. All but one person in the group kept going, the last person a girl who looked only about a year or two older than myself stopped dead in her tracks. She was staring at our clothes; I guess we did look out of place. Everyone here wore gray slacks and a colored tunic; so far I had seen blue, green, white and purple. This girl was wearing a white tunic and she had some sort of badge on her sleeve.
"Out of my way!" shouted the guard quite rudely. I was a confused at why he would be so polite to the receptionist at the front desk but so rude to this girl. Maybe it was because of her age. Young people are always not treated with little respect back at home. I just got used to having grownups constantly looking down on me. The girl though, seemed quite annoyed that this guard would be so rude to her. She glared at the guard for a second and then slowly walked in the direction that her colleges had gone. Just before we were pushed into the open door by the guard I looked back and saw the girl staring at us with such intensity that for a moment I thought that she recognized us as someone she knew. She was about average height, with light brown hair that was tied neatly in a bun. Her eyes were what caught my attention though, she had such light brown eyes that they looked more gold than brown. Then the guard pulled us into the elevator and I lost sight of the girl. We rode up for a few seconds on the elevator; the guard seemed to be getting antsy, like he was in a hurry to get somewhere.
I wanted to say, "Hey, no problemo Mr. Guard just let us go and you won't have to worry about us," but I figured that wasn't the right thing to say to the guy. We got off and found ourselves in a long hallway with many doors on either side. The guard led us to the third one on the left and put his palm again on the palm pad. The whole time Gunny and I had been silent but once we got in this room I had planned on trying to get us out of whatever punishment we were supposed to get. Maybe if I just explained to the guard that we were sorry and that it had just been some dare for us to go to the surface he might let us off. Gunny seemed to think the same thing because he straightened himself up as we were led into the room. But instead of being able to talk to someone to get us free the guard pushed us into a small room.
"See ya later!" he said jovially and slammed the door. We looked around to find that we were in a small square room that was completely empty.
"Our holding cell I presume?" said Gunny.
"I guess so," I replied. I was starting to get worried maybe we should have tried to get away from the guard. Who knew how long we would be left in this holding cell until the authorities decided what to do with us. We were trapped.
Hey guys! Cool little gadget isn't it. It's called a Messenger, great name, eh? To start off I'm not on Veelox. I was planning on going there but things changed. After I left you guys, Gunny and I went to the now familiar flume in the abandoned subway station in New York City. The ride to Veelox was uneventful; Gunny and I each went separately through the flume. I hoped that Saint Dane hadn't caused too much trouble already in Veelox and that Aja Killian would understand just how powerful Saint Dane really was. Veelox was just as it had been the last time I was there with Spader, completely dark. I waited for Gunny and hoped that my eyes would adjust to the darkness so that I could see where I was. I moved slightly to the right so that Gunny wouldn't knock me down once he arrived, I waited a couple more seconds and Gunny appeared.
"It's really dark here!" exclaimed Gunny.
"Yeah, this was the way it was last time Spader and I came."
Then suddenly just as before the huge head of Aja Killian appeared above us. "You are late again," she said irritably. "Saint Dane has left Veelox already"
"What?" I said, "You mean he isn't here?"
"That's what I just told you, moron!" yelled Aja.
"Where has he gone to then?" Gunny asked.
"Xelios," replied Aja.
"Xelios? Never heard of it, have you been there," I asked Gunny.
"Nope, but if that's where Saint Dane went then that's were we need to head to."
"Yes, just leave, I can take care of myself thank you very much!" snapped Aja.
"Fine, fine," I said, "I guess we should go to Xelios." I turned to Gunny. "You do the honors."
"Xelios!" he yelled and we headed to our next territory.
The flume ride was uneventful though we seemed to be going much faster than we had the other times I had rode the flumes. I asked Gunny what he thought was the reason for the faster flume ride. He said that maybe it was because Xelios was a lot farther away than the other territories had been. We landed in what looked like a mine, it was definitely abandoned because everything was dusty and all the lights were broken.
"Well, we made it" I said.
"Yes, but what do we do now?" asked Gunny.
"Let's get on some Xelios clothing and try to find a way to the surface,"
"Sounds good, but where are the clothes?" asked Gunny as he searched around the small cave.
"Wonderful," I said sarcastically looking in the opposite direction Gunny was. We both searched the cave top to bottom but there were no clothing or any other equipment that the acolytes usually left Travelers so that they could blend in with the people of the territory.
"Maybe the people of Xelios dress similar to us?" I said hopefully.
"I highly doubt it," replied Gunny, "Plus, how would the acolytes know what territory we have come from?"
"Good question," I said, "I think it's about time we learned something about these acolytes."
Gunny nodded, "So should we just wear what we have on?"
"It doesn't look like we have much choice, hopefully we'll be able to find someplace to get clothes before too many people notice us." I said, as I started towards the tunnel that hopefully led outside. Gunny slowly followed, giving one last look at the cave in case he had missed something but there was nothing but rocky walls and the door to the flume with the star on it. We walked slightly uphill for about ten minutes, though it seemed like hours, in almost complete darkness before we saw a small sliver of light coming from the end of the tunnel.
"Finally," I said, quickening my pace.
Gunny and I reached a door where the light was streaming in from the bottom. Gunny looked to me expectantly.
"Here's goes nothing," I said and opened the door. Both Gunny and I had to shield our eyes from the harsh light. Once our eyes adjusted to brightness we looked around. The first thing I noticed was that Xelios had two suns unlike 2nd Earth. If you remember Denduron had three suns. Xelios's suns however were quite different from each other, one was high in the sky and looked very similar to our own sun, it was too bright for me to look directly at but had a yellowish tint to it. The other sun however was a dull orange color and was barely above the horizon.
"Wow!" commented Gunny as he gazed at the two suns.
"That's different from back home," I said.
From where Gunny and I were standing we could see nothing but open farmland, it kind of reminded me of Grallion back on Cloral with their huge farms. But this was on the surface of the planet and the plants looked like our corn only that they were lower in the ground and the husks were a reddish color. The strange thing was that I didn't see any people working in the fields; the land was flat so I could see a long ways all around me but not a person was in sight.
"Kinda empty, isn't it?" I said.
Gunny smiled and pointed towards a small building to our right, it looked a long ways off but that was the only thing we saw except farms so we headed towards it. As we walked I noticed that the ground was a lot softer than our ground on 2nd Earth. It was almost squishy. Gunny seemed to have noticed too because he was trying to walk very lightly so as to not disturb the ground. I looked at him and he grinned, this was definitely not like home. We reached the building, which was a lot larger than I had first thought. It resembled a gas station with pump looking things outside of it. We headed to a door but as we got closer to it we found out that there wasn't a doorknob, I tried pushing it but it wouldn't budge.
"Look!" said Gunny pointing to a square pad beside the door. I pushed it but nothing happened, then thinking that it was one of those palm reader things I put my hand face down on the pad. The pad lit up but the door didn't open.
"Here, let me try," Gunny said putting his hand face down on the pad. Still nothing happened.
"Well so much for getting in," I said. I turned around and slumped down against the door looking out towards the fields. That's when I noticed something I hadn't seen before. It was a huge building of some sort floating a couple hundred feet in the sky. Gunny and I had had our backs to it before when we had first come out of the mine, so we hadn't seen it.
"Gunny, turn around!" I said jumping up and pointing. Gunny looked at the building and his mouth fell open.
"My god, what is that?" he said. We both continued to stare at the massive structure high in the air until somebody tapped me on the shoulder from behind.
"Ahh!" I yelled spinning around thinking it was Saint Dane; only to come face to face with a large, burly man dressed in gray pants and a blue tunic, he had a badge on his shirt that resembled a police officers badge back on 2nd Earth.
"What are you two think you're doing?" he yelled, the man had a nasty looking weapon which I assumed was a gun, it was silver and sleek with markings on it that I couldn't read. By then Gunny had turned around also. Gunny looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. I guess it was up to me to explain things.
"Well, we kind of umm, got lost." I said and smiled my most innocent looking smile.
The guy, who assumed was a guard, didn't buy it though, "You are not allowed down here unless you are of the Brown," he said sternly.
I didn't have a clue what this guy was talking about so I just lied. "Well, you see, we fell down from up there" I pointed to the buildings in the sky.
"Oh you just fell down, did you?" smirked the guard sarcastically. This was not going well.
"Uhh, yeah." I said. Gunny nodded in agreement.
The guard gave us a disbelieving look, one that said, "Yeah, right you crazy lunatics!"
"Stay right there and don't move!" the guard commanded he still had his gun out and pointed at us so he really didn't need to worry about us moving. I wasn't about to try and get away from this dude, he looked like he knew what he was doing and would probably shoot us before we got three feet away. The guard then took a small device, which looked like a phone, out of his pocket and spoke into it. "I've got two trespassers on the surface who are definitely off their rockers, they aren't even wearing the proper attire. Where do you want me to send them?"
Then a voice came through the device, "Take them to Kyliger on Platform E," the voice on the other end sounded weird, like it was a computer or something. Gunny looked at me as if to say, should we make a break for it. I shook my head, at least this way we would find out more about this strange territory, though with some of the things I've seen this territory was actually quite normal.
"Follow me, you two!" the guard said. He put his hand right where had both tried to get into the building, on the palm pad next to the door. This time though, the pad lit up and the doors opened. A mechanical voice said, "Welcome back Captain Towes,"
"How did that machine work for you?" exclaimed Gunny looking confused.
"It worked because I'm supposed to be on the surface, patrolling for people like you who aren't supposed to be here. What's with you guys? Have you forgotten that palm pads only work for the people it's programmed for? You must be more nuts than I thought." said the guard. Gunny looked extremely confused. Don't forget that Gunny is from 3rd Earth, which is 1937, he has no idea what a computer is let alone something that reads your palm.
"Where are you taking us?" I asked the guard as we walked into the building.
"To a holding cell until we decide how to punish you. What are you guys, some Whites trying to get the Browns to rise against us? You need to stop all this fussing and just live in the class that you are placed in."
Ok, sure, I thought not knowing what this guard was talking about. Whites? Browns? Maybe it was some tribes or ethnic groups that didn't get along. I remembered learning about the Titanic and there being a first, second, and third class on the boat. A lot of the third and second-class passengers had died because there were only enough lifeboats for the first class passengers. The guard led us through the building, which was quite plain; all it had were some white desks with nothing on them and a long wall at one end with a mirror. We stopped at a door near the full-length mirror. The guard put his hand on another palm pad, this time the door opened and the voice said, "You are now entering Platform E," The guard motioned with his gun for us to go in. Gunny and I stepped into what seemed like an elevator of some sort. It was about the same size as an elevator and only had the one door but there wasn't a place to push what floor you wanted to go to. The guard walked in after us and closed the door. He then put his hand to another palm pad, these people sure like palm pads. Instead of opening a door the room, which was definitely an elevator started to move upwards. The ride was smooth but it felt like we were going much faster than a normal elevator would, it wasn't quite as fast as the elevator on Cloral in the city of Faar but it was still much faster than a 2nd Earth elevator. The room didn't have any windows so I couldn't see how high up we went. The thing that was bothering me was that I had seen this building up close and had not seen any way an elevator could go up. The building had only been one story tall. Now I was really confused. The elevator slowed to a stop and the doors opened. What I saw next astounded me. We stepped out into what seemed like an indoor mall or actually an indoor city; this must be what those floating buildings were in the sky, I thought. Large buildings and stores went for miles in all directions. People were walking about their business, and it felt much like a street in New York City would feel. Gunny touched my shoulder and pointed up. I tilted my head and stared at even more levels above me of the buildings, I could make out houses on one level and what looked like a school or library on another.
"Whoa!" was all I could say. This was awesome, a whole city in the air.
"Let's go! It's not like you haven't ever been to Platform E before!" yelled the guard and pulled us towards a black office building. The guard had no idea that we, in fact had never seen Platform E before. The guard took us into a large office building that had intricate sculpting and even columns on it, inside was even more brilliant then the outside. If the outside looked more like ancient Greek architecture the inside looked totally the opposite. Everything was very modern looking. The walls were a light blue color and the floor was a silver tile. There were more elevator doors with the same palm pads, I guess security is a big deal on Xelios. In the middle of the room was a round desk where two ladies were sitting with headpieces on. They seemed to be receptionists. They had flat screens; I guessed that they were computers, in front of them. There were only a few other people in the lobby area and all of them looked to be in a hurry. The guard led us to the desk and as we got closer I saw that the receptionists were also typing, or it would seem like typing they were pushing the flat screens directly instead of typing on a keyboard. Xelios seems to be a lot more advanced than 2nd Earth. It reminded me of 3rd Earth in a lot of ways.
"Excuse me miss," said the guard to the receptionist on the right, "I need to take these two here to the holding cell for Platform E."
The receptionist looked at us disapprovingly but smiled at the guard. "Of course, Captain Towes," she then pushed a button on a screen in front of her and one of the elevator doors to our right slide open. Did I mention that all the doors slide open they don't open like our doors on 2nd Earth?
"Thank you," the guard said pleasantly to the receptionist, and then pulled us roughly in the direction of the elevator. As we were being dragged along by the burly guard a couple of people passed us on their way to something important because the nearly ran us over. I didn't think it was wise for them to just ignore the Captain as he seemed to be in a bad mood but these people gave him no notice. The guard didn't say anything like, "Watch out!" either. Maybe he just didn't like Gunny and I. All but one person in the group kept going, the last person a girl who looked only about a year or two older than myself stopped dead in her tracks. She was staring at our clothes; I guess we did look out of place. Everyone here wore gray slacks and a colored tunic; so far I had seen blue, green, white and purple. This girl was wearing a white tunic and she had some sort of badge on her sleeve.
"Out of my way!" shouted the guard quite rudely. I was a confused at why he would be so polite to the receptionist at the front desk but so rude to this girl. Maybe it was because of her age. Young people are always not treated with little respect back at home. I just got used to having grownups constantly looking down on me. The girl though, seemed quite annoyed that this guard would be so rude to her. She glared at the guard for a second and then slowly walked in the direction that her colleges had gone. Just before we were pushed into the open door by the guard I looked back and saw the girl staring at us with such intensity that for a moment I thought that she recognized us as someone she knew. She was about average height, with light brown hair that was tied neatly in a bun. Her eyes were what caught my attention though, she had such light brown eyes that they looked more gold than brown. Then the guard pulled us into the elevator and I lost sight of the girl. We rode up for a few seconds on the elevator; the guard seemed to be getting antsy, like he was in a hurry to get somewhere.
I wanted to say, "Hey, no problemo Mr. Guard just let us go and you won't have to worry about us," but I figured that wasn't the right thing to say to the guy. We got off and found ourselves in a long hallway with many doors on either side. The guard led us to the third one on the left and put his palm again on the palm pad. The whole time Gunny and I had been silent but once we got in this room I had planned on trying to get us out of whatever punishment we were supposed to get. Maybe if I just explained to the guard that we were sorry and that it had just been some dare for us to go to the surface he might let us off. Gunny seemed to think the same thing because he straightened himself up as we were led into the room. But instead of being able to talk to someone to get us free the guard pushed us into a small room.
"See ya later!" he said jovially and slammed the door. We looked around to find that we were in a small square room that was completely empty.
"Our holding cell I presume?" said Gunny.
"I guess so," I replied. I was starting to get worried maybe we should have tried to get away from the guard. Who knew how long we would be left in this holding cell until the authorities decided what to do with us. We were trapped.
