5: The Ghosts in the Walls
DJ woke with a start. Why didn’t his alarm go off? He was going to be late for school! He sat up only to be knocked back down by a low ceiling of aluminum ribs. As the pain spread across his forehead, so did the realization of where he was and why.
Below his feet, Paul snored. They slept in the dusty wire racks, and, by the smell of it, somewhere over a cafeteria. The sound of clattering pans reminded DJ of why they’d stopped here. After a long day of evading Security, they needed food. Good thing they’d fallen asleep here afterward because the noise below covered Paul’s loud nose.
The two of them had spent the previous day crawling through the station, avoiding Security as they searched room by room. For a while they’d hid over shuttle bay SX40, digging throu
