Janet focused, twitched her finger and gathered all the rain above and liquid that was flowing around them. She drew her palms together and the rainwater surged from everywhere, bursting like a dam. It pushed the bones and metal splitting them up and flinging them ahead.
Lugard's mouth gaped.
"Damn." The soldier next to him said.
"Damn indeed." Lugard whispered.
There were two knocks on the vehicle and the Lugard started the car again. The convoy successfully reached the research facility. It did not look like it used to anymore. Meteors that fell from the sky had ruined most of it and the rest, acid rain had corroded.
The research facility used to be owned by the government. It was a place for building and testing weapons, climate experiments, gene-research labs, artificial intelligence and all sorts of other things that were shared in whispers.
Now, the walls wept.
