Chapter Thirty-Nine
Crossing an elevated bridge, the train gradually slowed as the Automatic Train Protection overrode all operations. Olesya leaned out through the open doors. Ahead of her, Sophia leaned from another door and trailed a length of paracord behind. She held one carabiner while Olesya reached for the other. It clanged across the side of the train and Olesya snatched it and pulled it back inside, locking it on a handrail.
‘Secured,’ Olesya said.
Sophia tied her line, pulling the paracord taut under the windows of the train car.
‘Olesya to Aviary, we’ve run some paracord on both sides of the third car,’ Olesya said. ‘Get on the platform!’
Olesya wasn’t going to risk Aviary missing her chance. They’d keep the doors open until she was aboard.
‘About two minutes before we hi
