Nevercity

Night adventure

I began to slowly cross the corridors, always looking back to the map, because I didn't want to risk getting lost. More I got in the installation more I heard strange noises, that I couldn't identify exactly where they came from. Now this place was hunted? That's all I needed!

A looked in the back of the paper to verify if I was looking for the right room. Yep, number 3 was the office, that just could be Marian's office. It was in the left corner of the facility, who was in the opposite side of my bedroom.

Suddenly, I heard a loud beat, I had to use all the forces of my being to avoid screaming. I was divided between my curiosity and my fea... And my precaution, I didn't know if I continued my adventure and tried to discover what was that noise, if I just changed my path or if I went back to sleep.

Now there was multiple slams, but different of the other, they were low. I waited my heart slow down before proceeding, taking a deep breath. Ok, time to keep going. I gave careful steps in tiptoe, always observing my surroundings, to make sure there was no one around. It took more time than usual to finally go through that hall. According to the map I had to turn left, but before going any further, I looked to right and left

 At my right there was a long corridor who led to a room that was with the door open, I could swear that the noises were come from there, but there was only a way to be sure.

I approached from that room, holding my breath. I had no idea of what I would find in there, but I was too curious for my own good. I stopped in front of the door and put my head inside the head to see what was in it. I backed off immediately when I saw that Jim was there, hitting a punching bag.

Maybe that was the training he was talking about. I really wasn't anxious to the man discover that I was still awake, he probably would end my little exploration or worse, he would make me train. Even so I stayed at the corner of the door, observing him.

I never realized before, but this guy was really muscular. The intensity he was punching the bag seemed that he was trying to destroy it. I was impressed by how strong the man was, I knew he was strong, but not like that.

Without a warning, Jim started to turn around. I retreated immediately, wishing that he didn't see me. I heard steps approaching, so I quickly went back to the corridor I was before, still in tiptoe.

I looked to the map in my hands quiclky and saw there was another way to get at Marian's office. I gave one last look to the room where Jim was. He was in front of the door on his back for me.

I started to follow the other path to my destination, trying to do the least sound as posible, always looking around to make sure I wouldn't bump into someone.

It took me a few minutes, but I finally got in the room that I wanted to go. The office was just like it was when I first entered there. I decided to go closer to the table that was in the room. There was a drawer in it, that I didn't notice before.

I opened it and there was a few papers, which were filled with annotations that didn't seem to make any sense for me. There was a lot of scientific and technical terms, besides some random drafts of what seemed to be some kind of machine and a building plant.

In the plant there was a few arrows point the weakest points and how many guards and prisoners were there. In the machine there was a few things about how it worked... I think(?). Someone needed to tell Marian to improve her handwriting, that was a scrawl.

Most of things were written by hand in the first papers, but when more I leafed through it I could find a few printed stuff. There was a heartbeat graphic with some handwrited notes: In coma? Sleep paralysis? Catatonic? And much others like these. That probably about that boy I found earlier. So they don't know what happened to him? Maybe they tried to do something with that guy and there was a side effect.

In the paper behind that there was at seemed to be a profile of someone called James Reynolds. There wasn't any photo of whoever this person. I tried to remember if that was the name of the other man here in rebellion, but this name didn't seemed familiar. It could be Jim's real name . Maybe Jim was just his nickname

I was trying to analyze better the papers when I heard a sudden cry.