Page 230 of Chaos has a Name
Once she found a weapon.
If she found one.
The one thing she was grateful for was that her vest was at least working for now. Having someone to talk to was keeping her sane. Oh, but when she got out of here, she was having a breakdown.
Bet.
On.
It.
When MATE didn’t reply, she got worried.
“MATE?”
The system chimed, and it made that weird sound like it had before. MATE was compromised. The damage was taking down her ability to be effective.
That didn’t stop Elizabeth from talking to her.
“Can you mark this cave system so we can find it again?” she asked.
MATE replied after a few very long seconds.
“I can do that.”
When MATE went to continue talking, her light flickered, and Elizabeth stopped her.
Oh.
Hell.
No.
If she lost light, she’d freaking lose her mind. Then, she’d have to navigate by sound and touch. The last thing she wanted was to be bit by a poisonous spider, or whatever else was on the walls.
“Save your energy. You have to get me out of here. Don’t talk. I’m good.”
She hoped.
As she was walking, MATE stayed silent, and Elizabeth kept moving. That’s when she knew one thing.
Mate’s time was off.
How she shared the amount of time between Elizabeth’s vest getting damaged to her waking up was definitely off.
She’d been knocked out far longer than she thought. There was no way she was only out fifteen to twenty minutes. It wasn’t possible.
If only her smart watch was not damaged too. That hit to the fallen tree had done a number on her tech and her body.
The walk from where she was dumped to the spot that she was at now was at least that, and she saw the distance from where her vest was damaged to here. That was a fifteen-minute walk easily for both.
Elizabeth had been down longer than suspected.
What she needed was to get to Chris so she could get her blood drawn ASAP before whatever they’d used was out of her system.
They might have given her a clue as to who had taken her and was behind this.
There was no doubt in her mind that these assholes drugged her after knocking her out.
