The wide hallway stretched on for about fifty paces with buzzing lights in its ceiling, one of which insisted on flickering. As arenas went, this one certainly wasn’t lacking in creepy factor. Kez was pretty sure she had seen a movie like this once. Usually, this was the part where the monster leaped out from a closet.
She wore a light vest over her t-shirt and a pair of plastic goggles to protect her eyes. That was all she had in terms of body armour. Really, all she should need. The goal was to avoid being hit in the first place.
Creeping through the corridor with a pistol in both hands, its muzzle pointed dead ahead, Kez tried to keep her breathing steady. Her weapon had a series of LEDs on its trapezoidal casing that housed its barrel, and all three were glowing green. That meant cro
