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THE SLIDE
Chapter 28 | Kaleidoscope
Part 3 : Mystery, Supernatural, The Churn
“How many months has it been this time?” Farha asked Tem.
“Not that long. Nine hours. They, the specialists, said that the damage to your brain was severe, and they did not expect you to survive or regain consciousness. That was six hours ago. And then it happened your brain began to regenerate itself,” Tem said. “Again, you are lucky to be alive and even luckier to be in such excellent shape. It’s a miracle. Is there anything you want to tell me before the SS agents arrive?”
Farha snorted. “Everything, but they’re not coming. Well, they are coming, but they won’t find us,” she said.
“Are you — ?” Tem stopped himself from saying ‘delusional’. “What makes you say that?”
“I don’t know, I just know,” she paused. “But we need to go below in order to continue to escape them.”
“Where’s that?”
“Please unhook me, Uncle Tem. I’ll show you.”
Q and K from Central, a more public presence of the SS on the second-floor southeast corner of the castle, looked in what they thought was Farha’s hospital bed in the new wing of the fort. There was no one there. K called the office for the scanners. Q secured the perimeter. A search…
