chapter 46

"How are we meant to get out of here? We re on the lowest floor and the elevator is that way?" I nod with my head in the direction we came from; a growing tight knot of anxiety that maybe his plan is not the best. He waves at the trucks again, reminding me of their presence, but I m not sure how they will help down here. "The one on the end is a medical truck, and that platform lifts to the ground above. It s how we store them and transport things in and out." As soon as he says it, I spin my head, eyeing the last green military truck that looks like its half-brother was a tank, and see the gears of the platform on the space behind it. The poles and hydraulics lining the steel wall in shadow and look up into a cavernous space that opens over your head when you get up close to them. From my room, I couldn t see it, but this space goes up some hundred or more feet to a set of closed metal doors on the top ceiling. "And then what? We drive around until s