CHAPTER 29

Early evening creeped in and the group in the pod were becoming restless. Only a few vampires could be seen walking the halls across the commons as the sun glared through the window and began to set.

Then Bohdan spoke up to Steve, “How come you didn’t get gassed?”

Steve turned and looked to Bohdan, “The maintenance department is on the same vent system as the tram lines. That’s so we can fix them when they break down.”

“Didn’t your boss die in the gas? Isn’t his office in the maintenance department?” “No, his office was in the administration section, down the hall from Kathy.”

“Kathy survived,” Bohdan said.

“I kept her office off the vent. I wanted her alive. Long story.” “Seemed odd that you survived when all the rest of the staff died.”

“I wasn’t going to connect the boiler to the vent system if I knew I was going to die in the process.”

Then the lights in the pod blinked on and off. And again, only this time it went dark for a full second.

“What’s going on?” Ted asked.

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