Chapter Six
Wednesday, 12:04 a.m.
They huddled together in a corner with Alexa munching nonstop on energy bars. Did the woman never stop eating? It was dark, the Chicago lights lay below them like a carpet of multicolored stars. The elevator ding alerted them to the final descent of the night. The lone security guard had wandered the observation deck and cleared it. Now he’d go home to his family and she’d get to work trying to track an alien spaceship.
Even thinking the thought was odd. How bizarre her life had become. Sarah dismissed the man and reached for the energy she knew hummed through the wires lining the walls, found the ones she wanted, and pushed a bit more into them until they all heard a series of odd popping noises.
“Was that you killing the security cameras?” Alexa whis
