More noise. Getting closer now. Wright started to shuffle uncomfortably. ‘Where you been hiding then, mate?’ he asked. Carlton didn’t immediately answer. He couldn’t tell him. ‘Come on, man,’ Wright begged as the noise echoing along the corridor continued to increase in volume. ‘Let me come with you. I won’t do anything to get you found, I swear. I just want somewhere safe where I can—’
Soldiers appeared at the end of the corridor. More gunshots. A figure collapsed in a hail of bullets. More troops trampled the fallen body as they ran for shelter.
Carlton wanted to run back to the service tunnel, but he knew Wright would follow and he couldn’t afford to let him. He had to lose him fast.
‘Come on, mate,’ Wright begged. ‘Please…’
In a sudden flash of movement, Wright drew a knife and hel
