Chapter 26
Sannie moved as fast as she dared, pistol up and torch held out to one side. Her arm soon began aching from holding the torch at an unnatural angle, but she had been trained to adopt this position when entering darkened buildings – the theory was that an armed assailant would aim for the light, and therefore not her body. Moving alone in an underground tunnel, she figured she needed every advantage she could muster.
The uniform smoothness of the concrete tube that encased her was broken after four hundred paces. Playing the light of the torch upward, she saw that a hole had been cut in the roof of the tunnel. Cautiously she moved below the opening and took a quick glance. It was a shaft, leading above ground, with ladder rungs in the wall of the vertical escape chute. She was
