Moon Angel

Chapter 13: They've come for you

 Chapter 13: They've come for you

Someone shakes me awake. A girl crouches beside my bed. She couldn't have been more than a few years older than me. She looks familiar but I cannot name her.

"We have to go," she tells me. "We don't have much time."

I sit up, half awake and let the girl help me pull a warm coat over my nightgown and put my shoes on. I notice that the girl has wings like mine, half open behind her. She grabs my hand and leads me out of the room. It's dark but that doesn't worry me. I can see through the darkness. I assume that the girl can also see in the dark because the darkness doesn't stop her. We move briskly through multiple passageways and rooms. I hear a few gun shots go off in the distance. I don't know how close they are to our position but they scare me. I think they scare the girl too, because she pauses.

"They're here," she murmurs to herself, fear in her eyes.

"Who's here?" I ask quietly. The girl doesn't answer. I don't think she heard me.

A woman comes running around the corner. She stops when she sees us. This woman also has wings which makes me think that everyone here does.

"Come with me," she tells us. A panicked expression passes over her face. "We have to get Selene somewhere safe before it's too late."

"What's happening out there?" the girl asks.

"We've been surrounded. I don't know how they found us but they're here now. Ace's team has been holding them off so far, they're starting to break through our defences. I don't know how much longer we'll be able to last against them."

I didn't know who 'they' were, but somehow I knew they had come here for me and that they wouldn't be leaving until they had me in their sights.

Another set of gunshots go off. They are louder this time- closer to our position. The girl and the woman both turn their heads toward the sound. The battle that was taking place is moving towards us.

We start running again. The woman leading the girl and I down corridor after corridor, going further and further down through the complex. The building is confusing with its endless corridors of windowless walls and closed doors. If I hadn't been being led around, I would have gotten lost a hundred times over. I don't know how the woman manages to navigate all the identical twisting passageways. There is no light in any of the corridors that we pass through, which is a lot different to what I have grown used to on Earth where the humans make light everywhere. The people I am with don't seem to need any light to go anywhere. I suspect that everyone here is like that, like me.

We eventually stop outside a large metal door. Bringing a key out of her pocket, the woman unlocks the door. The door opens inwards automatically, displaying a large room. Glancing behind and around us, the woman ushers the girl and I into the room. The door swings shut behind us, locking as it closes. The room that we have come into looks like someone's living quarters. A man sitting behind the desk looks up when we walk in. It must be his room. He stands up and walks over to the woman. "Yvette," the man says, greeting the woman warmly. They must be friends.

"We need to talk," Yvette states.

The man nods. He turns to the girl and tells her that she can get us both something to eat from the kitchen. The girl gets me to follow her and we walk into the little kitchenette that comes off the room like an ensuite. The girl finds us both a small biscuit. We don't want anything bigger. Neither of us are very hungry.