Chapter Fifty-Five
Jay collapsed. Everything went suddenly dark. His hands were cool on the concrete floor. He felt Damien reach down and pick him up.
‘What’s wrong?’ Damien said.
Everything was black. Which meant the EMP was successful. He turned to face Damien, only he couldn’t see him. Then it dawned on him. It wasn’t just the dark tunnel.
‘I can’t see,’ he said. ‘I’m blind.’
It took a moment for Damien to respond. When he did, his voice was strangely slow and drawn out. ‘I can’t hear anything.’
He took both of Jay’s hands and moved them up his arms. ‘Hold on to my arm.’
Jay heard the metal scraping of Liberators in the distance.
‘Three coming,’ he said. ‘EMP didn’t fry them.’ He stopped when he realized Damien couldn’t hear him.
Damien pulled him into a fast walk, which soon t
