Trapped in the Consequence of Time

Sayer - Coral's POV

I don't own anybody.

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I sat, with my trident balanced on my knee, outside the building housing District Thirteen’s air control. Luckily for me the hovercraft landing strip was half hidden in the woods because that was the only space available they had built it, this was convenient because it meant I could sit outside Thirteen’s second most important wartime building after the meeting rooms, where Orion was currently causing a scene, with a deadly weapon and nobody would even blink.

I’m surprised the Capitol hasn’t marched in and taken over already.

When Orion had explained my part of the plan we had all stared at him in confusion because how would an eleven year old get into the hovercraft landing strip with a deadly weapon undetected and then guard the door to the control station - still undetected -  while everybody else hijacks a hovercraft? He had just smiled and said trust me and we, stupidly and against all common sense, trusted him (I blame his dad) but it turns out he had been right, the entire compound was undefended.

I peeked inside the window for the third time in five minutes to see that the technician had managed to collapse his card house since the last time I looked and was rebuilding it while listening to the latest album by Dianna Ritzy. He seemed as bored as I was. I leaned back against the wall and started drawing circles in the dirt with my finger while watching a sparrow hop back and forth between his nest and a berry bush. I glanced back inside to see that nothing had changed and pulled the small hand held communicator device to my mouth, Rose had called it a walkie-talkie and James told her to shut up, and pressed the talk button.

“Orion?” I asked quietly so that the guard wouldn’t hear in the break between songs.

“Has it come yet?” He replied immediately.

“No I was wondering why I couldn’t have Rye’s job.” He sighed and I swear I heard somebody giggle, probably somebody listening in.

“Because you can just run away through the woods if you need to and can fight in short range while Rye can cover the others from long distance.” He explained.

“Really long distance.” Rye interrupted and I stuffed the top of my t-shirt into my mouth to muffle my giggles.

“Shut up Rye.” Willow snapped at him and I leaned around the corner of the station to see that Hugo and Rye were rolling around laughing in their hiding place behind the bushes by the edge of the forest, Hugo had obviously put up some kind of spell because a hundred metres away I should have been able to hear them but couldn’t. They had the fun job of when I signalled them to say that the hovercraft was coming they would signal Willow and cover the group going to the Capitol as they snuck on the hovercraft invisible how you cover an invisible person I don’t know but they were going to have to try and if an invisible person got left behind then tough luck they would go and find Rye and Hugo and Hugo would make them visible. Hopefully. Meanwhile Scorpius, Lilly and Amber where hiding at the lift entrance from the hanger so that if something went wrong the hovercraft would still be able to take off because they added the fuel and distracted the other technicians. Orion was, of course, down at Thirteen’s HQ ready to distract anybody who gets suspicious.