Chapter 42
John Doe
Something seemed to happen to him as his leaned down to stare at her. He just knew she was staring back. She had moved so slightly, her shoulder shifting, her head flopping on an angle.
Though John had no way of knowing, his gut told him that her eyes had opened and locked onto his own behind that hood.
Maybe time had slowed down, maybe it had sped up, or maybe John had lost all track of it entirely.
Then that impossible shield that she had created failed.
In a flash.
But it did not simply disappear. As it melted away in crackles of electricity, the docking ring gave a shudder.
John lost purchase, not expecting the movement, and he was aware that everyone around him gave a gasp.
The whole floating city did not proceed to fall from the air though.
It shook and shuddered several times, and as it did John watched as the hacker ball fixed the woman in a beam of light that pulled her off the hull, and flew away with her.
As John pressed his hands into the bucking hull, he stared up at her retreat.
He watched her, her body limp. He watched her until she dwindled into the darkness.
The docking ring eventually stabilized.
But she was out of sight.
He had lost track of her again.
In fact, he had just plain lost.
But John Doe was a betting man. He was also a determined one. And he somehow knew that this game was not over yet.
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