User:CosmicRay

From The Urban Dead Wiki

-A week later-

The lights flickered a moment, then extinguished completely, plunging the Necrotech facility into darkness; as the generator consumed the last of its gasoline. Ray leaned back in his chair, scrutinising the now black computer screen with his caffeine-fuelled gaze.

There was a thump at the door; Ray tensed, reaching under his desk to the flare gun taped there.

Click

The lock turned, and a figure stepped through the threshold into the dingy building. It was Cat, his assistant, sent on a foray for more gasoline. There had been none. “Nothing,�? he remarked flatly, settling down at his desk, drawing a freezing mug of three-day-old coffee towards him, sipping disdainfully, “Word is there’s another survivor group in Dulston, some blokes name Paravrais and Otleysan.�?

The names rang bells in his head; he had known them, years back.

“Cold outside?�? Ray asked, turning to regard his colleague.

“Fairly,�? he replied, sipping once again at his beverage.

Ray reached over the back of the chair, touching at the coat that had been there every day of his working life. The coat, he assumed, had belonged to his predecessor. He rose from his worn seat, slipping his arms into the coat as he did so.

“I’m going out�?, he stated, striding to the storeroom at the back of the office, removing a gun-like device from a rack of similar devices there.

“Coming back?�?

“Doubtfully�?

“Have fun,�? said Cat, unwrapping the last confectionary bar and devouring it with relish.

Secreting the flare gun in one pocket of the coat, and the DNA device in the other, Cosmic Ray stepped out of the door and into the fast approaching Malton dusk, heading east, to Dulston.