Chapter #13
Bluren was roughly yanked downward, by who she couldn't see. Then hand was large, covering her mouth and much of her chin, and strong. The hand steered her around and started pulling her down the hall. After getting over her alarm, Bluren's slow brain began to work again. No! It said This is not acceptable. What's going on!? She had to do something- fast.
So she did, and it was the first thing that came to her mind. She bit down on the hand as hard as she could. With a surprised grunt of pain, Bluren's captor let go of her. Bluren whirled around and was surprised to see the boy. The one with the partially metal face, who had given her the letter from the Masters. He was holding his human hand in his mechanical one, and glaring at her as if she had broken a punishable law.
"Why are you here?" Bluren croaked. Her voice obviously hadn't been used in a while, but still it was strong and echoed throughout the hallway. Now the boys eyes widened and he looked around frantically, as if to make sure no one was listening. "Shhhhhhhhhh!" He said, glaring again. "You have to come with me. There isn't much time before they come to retrieve you." He stood and reached for her hand, but she backed away.
"No." She said insistently "First you must tell me who you are, why you are here, why I have to come with you, and where we are going." The boy looked exasperated and replied "Listen, all will be explained soon. You're going to be fine. I'm here to help you, and bring you to a safe place." All of a sudden there was a shout heard far away, down the hall. The boy grabbed Bluren's hand and ran with her in the opposite direction.
This looked like the place where all of the masters usually walked around, busily going somewhere, but they were all gone. The twisted elevators were empty, and the whole place was huge and empty and quiet. The boy placed his hand on the pad beside an elevator. Instead of opening the door, the pad turned an angry red. The boy muttered something under his breath about "Already!" And "Denied access" and "have to go the hard way." .
The boy grabbed Bluren's hand and they bolted together towards a huge staircase, leading down. They went down the stairs so fast, Bluren was sure she would end the trip by falling. On what she thought was the bottom floor, Blurn and the boy ran to the far side, where they stopped at the corner of the wall. The boy let go of Bluren's hand and began to examine the grooves in the wood wall. "Yes!" He exclaimed, and for some reason Bluren didn't know, she felt relieved, too. The boy pressed a small button on his wrist and a little saw blade popped out of the palm of his hand.
