We took the key, opened the steel door and hurried in to check it out. ‘I’ll prop the door, so it doesn’t close behind us and keep watch too. You guys see what you can find,’ I said.
‘She was here! They’re the clothes she was wearing when they separated us,’ said Brittney, pointing to the clothes in the corner.
‘There’s a message in the bathroom, written in lipstick on the mirror,’ called Viktor. ‘It says Chernobyl.’
Just then I heard through the now open window in the hallway what sounded like a big speedboat roar into life. I rushed over to the window, looked out and saw a large boatshed and dock on an enormous body of water that I hadn’t noticed when I was down at ground level. Maybe I’d been too busy getting shot at to notice the scenery. The body of water was so big it looked like
