Chapter ThirteenSwift was surprised to be alive. After his and Zeke's escape attempt, when the guards had opened the street-side window wall and admitted the frenzied gallery crowd to the cell, he had thought for sure that his minutes were numbered.
The crowd had poured in like a tidal wave, smashing them up against the wall while the guards in the corridor watched with bemused interest. Though the humans had struggled to fend them off, they had been virtually immobilized by the crush of numbers. Zeke had tried to use the laser scalpel from the gurney, but it had been wrenched from his hand almost immediately and snapped in two.
Snarling Vox had fought each other to strike the captives and swipe them with their claws…and Swift thought that might have been what had saved his and Zeke's
