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In the bolt-hole
Continuation of “Run and Hide” where we find a bit more about who Andy and Nat are and what they are using as their bolt-hole.
Andy’s heart was beating like an animal trapped behind his ribcage trying to break free; he hated being small, weak, and scared all of the time. The underbelly of Detroit wasn’t a good place for anyone who looked like a victim, and he looked the part, no matter how he felt on the inside.
Shaking his head, he started down the unlit hall, depending on a combination of memory and Nat’s augmented reality view projected by his implants to navigate the pitch darkness. Forty-Five meters down the hall, past several doors, and cross passage, it ended in a solid door secured with a biometric reader. A second after placing his palm on the reader, there was a soft hiss and light shown around the edges of the door briefly before it slid to the side, revealing a brightly lit room mostly filled with racks of computer and network equipment. There were superconducting fiber, glass fiber, composite, and obsolete copper lines running through the back wall connecting to the racks. In one corner were a cot, a small refrigerator, an electric hot-plate, along with other signs that someone lived in this room.
