5
IZRAMITH HADN’T been to the second level corridor since the early days of her service with the guards. Before she was sent to Indrahui as part of Hedron’s effort for the peace process, she used to be on the Yellow shift, but before that, she worked in Internal Security, and those were the guards that went into that place. It was where she had learned not to be disturbed by blood and guts.
This old part of the settlement had been derelict ever since Izramith could remember. Mother would sometimes talk of having lived in the crowded corridors when she was young, but she had moved out with the others when the Mines Board shut the section because of outdated infrastructure.
Izramith now found herself in that corridor, having walked past the broken seals and the warning signs about leaving
