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.”Michael nodded, then said to Cooper, “I’m sorry, we honestly did not know you wanted to see Vortex.I guess the two of us will have to do.unless you’d like to call this whole thing off and move to a regular cell?”Cooper held up his hands in surrender; Michael could see that they were shaking.“No, no, it’s fine.I’ll.I’ll take what I can get.I can’t be moving around.” Cooper drew a deep breath, presumably to settle his nerves or harden his resolve.“Okay, come on in and close the door.”“Mister Cooper,” the warden said, still hanging back out of sight, “the room is too small.They can’t join you in there unless you drop your force field.This was per your request, remember.”“Yeah, okay, I got it.”Huffing one more breath, Cooper dropped his shield.No sooner had his feet touched the floor then he moved as far from the doorway as he could.He waved Michael and Mark inward with impatient hands.With one final glance back to the warden, who offered a tired smile in return, Michael stepped into the room.Mark joined him, closing the door behind them; the only light came from a pair of incandescent bulbs above.Not a second had passed before Mark said, “Cooper, you better make this quick.We don’t plan to stand here and breathe your shit all day, you know what I’m sayin’?”“Hey,” Cooper snapped, “you think this is fun for me, punk?!”Before they could really get going at one another, Michael held up a hand in each of their faces.To Mark, he said, “Shush,” which received a shrug.To Cooper, he said, “Mister Cooper, my partner’s delivery aside, he has a point.We were pulled away from an extremely important assignment to be here, apparently at your insistence.What do you say we get to it so that maybe we can all get out of this closet, all right?”Cooper’s gaze dropped to the floor, and he looked more miserable than ever.“Sure, sure.I just want this to be over.”“The warden said you know something about how the rogues have been escaping?”Cooper steeled himself one last time, then said, “Yeah.We haven’t been ‘escaping’ — at least not me and the other two who were with me that day.Someone let us out.”When Cooper paused, presumably for melodramatic effect, Mark guffawed.Michael let that slide and said, “Yes, Mister Cooper, that’s been one of our foremost theories.Can you tell us anything about who freed you?”“Not directly, no.I never actually saw him—”Mark muttered, “Oh, for Christ’s sake.”“That’s not what I mean!” Cooper said in a rush.“I don’t mean.what I mean is, he never.” He paused to collect himself, and when Michael started to interject, he raised a finger to the Lieutenant.“I’m trying to explain.We were in the detention cells, and then all of a sudden my door unlocked itself and my head gadget popped off.When I stepped out, the guards were down.We had nothing to do with that — they were already down before any of us got loose.The other two took off, so.I guess it seemed like a weird blessing at the time, so I ran for it.” His eyes dropped again.“Sorry about rolling over you guys on my way out.I was just trying to get away.”“That it?” Mark groused.“Someone let you loose, and you didn’t see nothin’? That’s what you wanted to tell us?”“No,” Cooper fired back, but without much force this time.“If that’s all it was, I’d probably be halfway to Canada or Mexico by now.But it got a lot creepier after I got loose.” To Michael, he said, “Am I right that a lot of the rogues who’ve escaped have been causing trouble? I mean, instead of running or hiding, they’re raisin’ all sorts of hell?”Michael thought about that for a moment.When he’d last paid close attention to the escaping-rogues situation, that had been the primary issue: Unexplained prisonbreaks.Once he met his first alien face-to-face.well, he’d had other priorities.But now that he thought about it, there had been a lot of PCA traffic showing up on his phone over the past day or so, notices that he’d scrolled past in favor of the glowing situation which took him through the White House and up into the Montana mountains.“Are you suggesting, Mister Cooper, that you have some knowledge of what’s been going on after the prisonbreaks as well?”“Yeah, I do.I can’t speak for all the others, I guess, but I know what’s been happening to me, and trust me, kid, it ain’t been fun.” He licked his lips.“I was all right at first, stole some clothes to cover this ugly prison outfit, stole a little food from a convenience store.But when I got my hands on a some money and was fixin’ to sneak out of town, I got.interrupted.By a voice.”“A voice.”Cooper nodded with vigor.“Yeah.I couldn’t see him.He sounded like he was right there, sometimes in front of me, sometimes behind me, sometimes above me, but I couldn’t see him.He wouldn’t leave me alone
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