Shell

Chapter 5: Reapers

I walked into the gathering hall to find it empty aside for a man in tan flight suit with a hat waiting for me.

"Excuse me are you Artemis?" he asked.

"Yeah that's me" I replied.

"Follow me I'm to show you to your room." he said turning around and walking towards a hallway.

I silently followed him down the hall passing through a door a little ways down though this one wasn't nearly as armored as the one to the wing I woke up in. On the other side was an underground apartment complex, I walked up to a railing and looked down into a pit seeing all the different levels 4 in total of the housing space. On the floor at the bottom of the pit was an open arena of sorts complete with spectator stands facing it. The man tapped me on the shoulder.

"Your room number is forty one, this is as far I can take you as I don't have the clearance to that level. Here is your key." he said handing me a black rectangle.

I looked at it confused, there was nothing on it no bar code or anything.

"Oh here place your finger here" he said as he pointed to the bottom of the card.

I did as he said and when I did so the rectangle bisected and extended a a couple inches and displayed a holo screen between the two card pieces. Displayed on the screen was a picture of me with some basic information about me, height, weight, etc.

"You need only insert it into the keyhole above the door handle, that key and cleared staff keys are the only was that have access to your room. I'll be off now." The man said as he left me.

I turned and started to head towards my level taking the stairs as I couldn't find an elevator. These'll be fun going up I thought to myself as I made my way down. I got down to the fourth level and left the stairwell through a door and got a closer look at the arena as it was just one level underneath now. There were two sets of stairs leading up to the square arena with console terminals beside them I wondered at what they could be for as I continued to search for my room. I spotted my room just a bit further down and I quickened my pace. Suddenly a door to my left opened and I ran into the person leaving the room who was just a bit taller than me but much more burly. I quickly stepped back narrowly dodging a punch intended for me.

"Hey watch where the fuck your going!" the person yelled.

I got a better look at him now, he wasn't overweight but he definitely had mass to him that would could stop or smash through most things. On top of his head I noticed rounded off bear ears poking out of his black hair. His rage filled eyes turned to slight confusion as he looked at me more though the fire didn't leave his eyes.

"Huh what are you doing down here? Theres no way they'd put a cat down here with the Reapers." he questioned.

"My room number is forty one I was given this and told to come down here." I stated as I showed him my black card.

His eyes became surprised as he saw the card.