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his
attention.
    “We’re coming up on people. Hold it
together,” David warned Grai through the Shengari’. At Grai’s sharp nod, David
moved them along the new hallway towards a nurse or doctor station.
    David flashed two fingers towards
Grai, letting him know that there were two people up ahead. Grai nodded and
looked into the empty holding cells they were passing as they got closer to the
voices.
    They now stood opposite the nurse’s
station where one male nurse and one guard were laughing and joking about the
future fate of an unnamed individual. Grai looked into the room they were
standing in front of and stared into the surprised face of a young man on the
other side of a bed.
    Grai shook off the shiver of fear
he felt slip down his spine as he looked at the young man. He wasn’t more than
a kid; Grai guessed him to be in his early 20s. Grai scanned him quickly for
injuries, saw none, dismissed the kid, and turned to face the two at the
nurse’s station.
    Mikey stared at the two men in
shock and a little fear. The cold, almost dead eyes of the dark haired man had
sent a shiver of fear down Mikey’s spine, and he tried to shrug off the
overwhelming need to speak to them. His voice wasn’t helping.
    “Them! You need to speak to them! I
can help you! They can get us out of here!”
    Mikey shrugged off the voice and
moved towards the clear acrylic glass to get a better look at the two
strangers. He watched in surprise as the man in front used hand signals to
indicate that they were going down the right hallway first.
    He stood mere inches away from the
two men and wondered at why the guard and nurse hadn’t greeted them or
acknowledged them in any way. Mikey reached his hand to the clear plastic wall
and flinched as he stared into the hard eyes of the dark haired man. His irises
swirled like storm clouds.
    He sucked in a sharp breath and
took a step back from the wall, pulling his hand away at the same time.
    The strange man cocked his head to
the side and motioned to the man in front of him. Mikey stared at another pair
of strange eyes and he was stunned into silence as both men studied him
closely.
    “They’re our people. They can get
us out of here,” the voice whispered tantalizingly in his mind.
    Mikey didn’t know why he did it,
but he stepped forward again and placed his hand back on the wall as he mouthed
the words, “Help me.”
    Both strange men looked at one
another briefly before the dark haired man nodded his head at Mikey and held up
a hand indicating they would be back.
    Mikey stared at the men as they
moved silently down the hallway and when he saw the nurse and guard staring at
him, he took his hand off the wall and leaned his back against it so they couldn’t
see him. There were so many questions running through his head he had no idea
what to think.
    Why didn’t the guard or nurse
acknowledge the pair? Why were they sneaking down the hallway like that when
they were clearly visible in the empty hall? Like a lightbulb going off in his
mind, Mikey finally figured it out and he sucked in a sharp breath.
    “Oh God,” he whispered as he turned
back around to try and see where the two men had gone.
    Men? They were aliens! He
thought, trying hard to comprehend what was going on.
    What the hell should I do? Should I
alert the guard and nurse? He wondered for a moment before the voice
whispered through his mind.
    “They will get us out of here. Do
not endanger them. It is our only chance to escape,” the voice said.
    Escape, Mikey
thought with a nod. That was what he wanted, and he didn’t give a damn who he
had to side with to get it. Voice or no voice, he knew deep down those two men
were his only chance out of there, and he paced near the door, hoping for
another chance to talk to them.
    He watched the men come back into
the hallway, and the dark haired man held up two fingers before pointing down
the other hallway they were heading down. Mikey knew they were letting him know
they would