"You're just going to walk right up to the station and that will be the end of the level? You just happened to stumble upon it because you picked exactly the right direction to go on the first pass?"
"What? What do you want from me?" he demanded of himself. "Want me to turn around and go back. I'm being careful, now shut up already."
"Fine. Whatever. But it couldn't be this easy!"
Jaden sighed a bit more noisily than he intended. "I'm insane. I am frigging insane," he muttered.
~~~~~
Takyle stared at the two huge images in front of her. Both of them showed a view from far above. The screen on the right held Jaden, walking across the grass, toward what she couldn't tell. The picture on the left was clearly of Andrew. At first she thought the image was a single shot, he was so still. In front of him, nearly hidden in the grass, Takyle could barely pick out the shadowed form of some kind of big cat.
~~~~~
Despite Jaden's forebodings, he couldn't help feeling a sense of elation as he stood in front of the media station.
"I did it. I found the thing. Now just to find the on switch." He tentatively pressed one of the keys on the board and was pleased to see the screen come to life and words begin to fade forward.
"Look out," he read, immediately glancing around. When he found nothing but the unchanged, rolling grasses, he turned back to the screen. The words had disappeared and were being replaced.
"Watch your back." Jaden turned again, just to be doubly sure no one was sneaking up on him, but the plain persisted in being deserted.
"What the hell?" he asked aloud, expecting the words to change again, but they did not. In a minute the message faded away and the screen darkened. Jaden tapped the keyboard, with no response.
"What the bloody hell..." he asked again, his voice trailing off as he turned around. ~
1 comment:
Jaden better not turn his back on that media station. It's clearly up to something.
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