Destiny

[jammi]

There was the library. Three of the walls still stood, bowed in slightly to the point of near collapse. There was another distant rumble of thunder and the rain intensified. I picked my way inside, stumbling on the loose rock and glass that littered the floor. Burnt scraps of paper torn from books lay plastered to the floor by the falling rain.

Where did you keep the artefacts? Harman was picking his way through the rubble a few feet behind me. I could see a small red dot that indicated the power setting on his pistol through the darkness as I peered back over my shoulder.

Just up ahead, there was a safe that contained all of my collections. I wondered if the shell had survived. The safe was one of the strongest money could buy on the commercial market, forged from exotic alloys mined from the very depth of PLanet Leeds. I splashed through the water that was pooling around me, becoming sludgy from ash it was picking up from all around.

I squatted in the corner where the safe used to be; now only a pile of debris. I tried to pull a slab of fallen stone out the way, but only succeeded in grazing my palm on a peice of broken glass.

Its under that pile of rubble. Youd have to help me clear it off though. I went back to sifting through the lighter pieces of debris, wondering whether Harman would help or not. If he did that would give me an opportunity to do something, seeing as he wouldnt have a gun trained on me. With escape in mind, I plucked a particularly jagged piece of glass out of the ruins. Harman didnt seem to notice, so I went back to clearing the rocks away.

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