Chapter 51
51 The room beyond the prison caverns has very definite ideas of who belongs on the inside and who doesn’t. It combines 1940s “keep the bombs out” construction techniques with modern military technology, in the name of defending really horrible human beings. Maybe if those people weren’t so awful, they wouldn’t need these kinds of defenses. The walls, all heavy gray brick, all look solid enough to resist anything up to a twelve-inch gun. No windows. Big flat screens on the walls, more screens on tiny wooden desks. Flimsy tranquilizer rifles on one wall rack, AK-74 assault rifles in another, with a whole bunch of the 30-round magazines and a few 45-round drums. A third rack with one empty peg holds a bunch of the old, bulky night vision goggles, the kind that gives you a headache after t
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