Chapter 25
They waited at the end of the shaft for the train sitting at the platform here at the end of the line to fill with passengers. Liam slumped against the wall, eyes closed, but he was by degrees looking better. Scout glanced from his pale face to Geeta’s ashen one and realized he was already nearly looking better than the exhausted ensign. Well, more alert, anyway. His skin was healing, if still an alarming shade of red, but the lack of hair was disturbing.
The train rolled closer and they fell back into the shadows. Scout wasn’t sure if anyone looking out the window would be able to see them—no one seemed to have noticed the existence of the shafts—but it was best not to take chances.
She looked back again, back the way they had come, but as far back as her lens could penetrat
