Nina pressed her back against Terrin’s, keeping her hands
clearly where the ring of police could see them. “This is all your fault,” she whispered
harshly, trying to keep her anger and terror in check.
“What was I supposed to have done?” he demanded back in a
whisper. “Just let him hurt you? Yeah right.
Family’s all we’ve got.”
“And what about freedom?”
The police tightened their circle a bit as a couple in the back readied
restraints. Not the normal ones, either,
since they didn’t know what the sibling pair could do. “We did have that, but
thanks to you, we don’t anymore.”
“No, thanks to a thug, we can’t stay in this city anymore.” Nina glanced at Terrin but didn’t
answer. She suddenly felt a lot more
nervous. “Come on, Nina. It won’t do more damage, but it will get us
out of here. If they take us to prison,
they won’t let us stay together, you know that.” He took her hand, and she clutched it
tightly, even as they still held them up where the police could see. “This is our last chance.” He was right, too. The circle was starting to break, and those
horrible contraptions that would keep them contained were all she could see in
the gap.
“Don’t let go for anything.”
Squeezing his hand, she broke the very law that had landed them in this
situation in the first place and made them both invisible.
Shouts immediately rang out, but Nina and Terrin were
already crouched down on the ground, just looking for an opening, any opening. One gap in the confusion, and they rushed
past the tangle of legs, drawing up a shout with the contact, but no one could
see what to shoot at by the time they heard it.
They ran for miles.
Dodging through alleys and across major streets by skirting the crowd. Neither of them said a word. Finally, on the outskirts of downtown, they
leaned against a brick wall in a deserted alley, exhausted, and Nina relaxed
her focus as they slid to the ground.
To be continued...?
To be continued...?
