The Last Oracle
“Pripyat, Ukraine“Wake up!”Gray heard the words, but his brain took another moment to decipher them. A stinging slap cut through his grogginess. Light filled his head then dissolved into watery images.Luca leaned over him and shook Gray’s shoulders.Coughing, Gray pushed the man back and rose to an elbow. He stared around the room. He was in a bare cement cell with peeling, blistered paint and a rusted red door. Light came from a single barred window high up on the wall. Beneath the window, Kowal...ski sat on a moldy thin mattress, his head hanging between his knees, groaning with nausea.Gray took a deep breath, forced himself to relax, and recalled what had happened. He remembered a hard climb out of the canyon at gunpoint, a short helicopter ride, then a cargo plane on a rain-swept airstrip. He fingered a bruise on his neck. Once aboard the plane, they’d been drugged.Gray had no idea where they’d been taken.“Elizabeth…Rosauro…?” he asked hoarsely.Luca shook his head. He slumped against the wall and sank to his bottom.MoreLess
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