24-04-19 70 Silo 18 The pot on the stove bubbled noisily, steam rising off the surface, tiny drops of water leaping to theirfreedom over the edge. Lukas shook a pinch of tea leaves out of the resealable tin and into the tinystrainer. His hands were shaking a...

24-04-19 69 Silo 17 Juliette pulled herself through the cold, dark waters, bumping blindly against the ceiling, a wall, noway to tell which. She gathered the limp air hose with blind and desperate lunges, no idea how fastshe was goinguntil she crashed into t...

24-04-19 68 Silo 18 Hello? Solo? Please say something. There was no mistaking that voice, even through the small speakers in the dismantled headset. Itechoed bodiless in the control room, the same control room that had housed that very voice for somany years...

24-04-19 67 Silo 18 Lukas sat with his mother on the thick jamb of the open server-room door. He looked down at herhands, both of them wrapped around one of his. She let go with one of them and picked a piece of lintoff his shoulder, then cast the offending...

24-04-19 66 Silo 17 Juliette grabbed the limp air hose with both hands and squeezed. Her reward was a few weak bubblesrolling up her visorthe pressure inside the tube was gone. She whispered a curse, tilted her chin against the radio, and called Solos name....

24-04-19 65 Silo 18 Walker found himself shoved down the square stairs, past a crew of mechanics working to weldanother set of steel plates across the narrow passage. He had most of the home-built radio in thespare-parts tub, which he desperately clutched wi...

24-04-19 64 Silo 17 The descent to Mechanical was oddly tranquil, almost mesmerizing. Juliette slid through the greenflood, pushing herself away from the curved railing each time the staircase spiraled around beneathher feet. The only sounds anywhere were th...

24-04-19 63 Silo 18 Lukas sat at the little desk constructed from an embarrassment of wood and stared down at a bookstuffed with a fortune in crisp paper. The chair beneath him was probably worth more than hed makein a lifetime, and he was sitting on it. If...

24-04-19 62 Silo 17 The panic she felt from donning the suit was unexpected. Juliette had anticipated some degree of fear from slipping into the water, but it was the simple actof putting on the cleaning suit that filled her with a hollow dread, that gave he...

24-04-19 61 Silo 18 said Thursday that Id get it to you in two days. Well, damn it, its been two days, Carl. You do realize the cleanings tomorrow morning, right? And you realize that today is still today, dont you? Dont be a smart-ass. Get me that file and...