Seeds Chapter 14 Page 12

He could fix it, but not today, and slides down into the narrow opening to the steps below. He’d leave it open, he needed the light to guide him down the staircase.

The main door opens only slightly as the lock disengages and he leans against it to force it open. The place is ransacked. Somehow they’d discovered it and forced their way inside. The light pouring through from the ceiling in the far corner exposes their entrance path. The elevator doors had been forced opened somehow and resting at the bottom of the shaft is a pile of broken bodies.

The price of access as Belle defended her home from invaders. But most of the weapons were missing. It seems like Mark’s raiding party wasn’t here for the humans after all, they were just a