Run: Day 10

Word Count: 60,283

Summary of Events:

Ty was taken to see a dislikable court-assigned lawyer whom he fought hard to have nothing to do with, including getting loose of the police and running away, but he wasn't able to escape the building. DaNiel arrived back in Lincoln and was able to rather quickly and easily assemble a means for Ty to get out of jail before masquerading as a charity representative and delivering chocolate bunnies to several prisoners, including Ty, whom he also left the means of escape. Ty managed to steal extra chocolate bunnies from DaNiel and, after eating one, went into the little bathroom in the cell to get a drink of water . . .

Excerpt of the Day:

Before he could leave the little washroom, however, Ty noticed something different about the toilet.

Checking to see no police were nearby, Ty squatted down and drew out a strange and primitive-looking thing; it honestly looked like the thing DaNiel had taken from the house in Alexandria, but cruder and more primitive.

On top of it was a piece of paper, filled with a rather straight and tidy print that conveyed masculinity as much as Grandpa’s cursive.

Ty,

READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF PRISON!

I have given you SDP002 for the purpose of getting out of prison, as you should probably be involved in delivering the Latrodectus to safety, seeing as you were the one whom it was given to.

To Operate: flip the switch on the right-hand side into the ‘on’ position; the indicator light beside it will tell you if it is on by glowing steadily.

Stand on the platform straight and even, being careful not to press the raised piece of the platform with your feet as you do so.

When comfortably in position, press one of your feet onto the raised portion.

I would advise you to do all of this as soon as possible so that you reduce the likelihood of the SDP002’s discovery and so we can hopefully make it back to Sidney before it’s too late at night, as I didn’t technically check out of the motel there when I left at 5am, so I’d like to be able to take advantage of it for another night.

As for the safety of SDP002; I promise you it’s safe because SDP001 was constructed even more makeshiftly and still got me out of prison. I was able to use better, more quality materials for SDP002, so it will work for you if the weaker SDP001 worked for me.

IF YOU NOTICE SPARKS, do not be alarmed, if you haven’t figured it out, SDP stands for Self-Destructing Platform. It has the minimum amount of power necessary to send something the size of a human, which is deliberate so that it will fail once it’s sent one person, preventing that person from being followed.

DaNiel.

A self-destructing escape platform? DaNiel was helping him get out of prison without his having to be sentenced for his crime? Ty was confused, as well as a little wary about the idea of using something that was deliberately supposed to self-destruct.

Still, it sounded like he would survive the trip, which would be nice, as he didn’t want to be in prison anymore, and he wouldn’t mind giving DaNiel a good thrashing for leaving him to get locked up by the police anyways.

It would be nice to test and see if it worked before he tried it, maybe it was a big trick DaNiel was playing to get him into more trouble; but what to send?

Ty didn’t have to think long before he hurried over to where he’d left his bunnies, he didn’t want to leave good chocolate — especially chocolate he knew he’d been seen licking — to go to waste.