Page 113 of Game of Destiny
“There are special glasses. Smoke or dust,” Jake said.
“We don’t have the glasses or dust. I’m not that eager to light the room on fire to get smoke,” Sam said. We all agreed.
“How about water?” Ramses asked.
“Um, like filling the room with it? I think that would break the beam. Or rather refracting it,” Jake said.
“And we do need to breathe,” I added.
“There is that,” Jake agreed. Ramses chuckled.
“I don’t think we need to fill the room. I was thinking more of a mist,” he said.
“That could work. But we don’t have enough water to create a mist,” Jake answered. Ramses pointed upwards. We all looked up and we all smiled. There was a sprinkler system on the ceiling.
“How do we trigger it?” Finlay asked. “We are not starting a fire,” he added before anyone could suggest it.
“Well, we don’t need to start a fire, it’s usually enough to cause smoke or increase the heat,” Jake said.
“And how do we do that without starting a fire?” I asked.
“We start a small fire?” Jake hesitantly suggested. I giggled when I saw Finlay’s face.
“We will not burn down the council’s game room,” he told us.
“Of course not,” Ramses agreed.
“Just a small fire,” Sam said.
“Which will go out from the sprinklers,” Jake added. I continued to giggle.
“I have to be insane, but go ahead. Tell me how we are going to start a fire?” Finlay said with a deep sigh. There was a moment when everyone looked through their pockets and had a look around the room. There wasn’t much to work with.
“We can use the Gammas smartwatch to make a short circuit that may ignite the scrap paper and we can then use the paper to light the cardboard box and some playing cards. They should create more smoke and heat than the paper. But we will still need to get it as close to the detector as possible,” Jake said. We all looked up at the ceiling.
“Amie can get on my shoulders,” Finlay said.
“So we are doing this?” Sam asked.
“I guess we are,” Finlay admitted. He squatted down and I got the message and climbed onto his shoulders. He stood up and I confirmed I would be able to reach the sensor. Jake started fiddling with the smart watch and Ramses was making a bundle of playing cards with scrap paper in between.
“Here we go,” Jake said, holding the watch close to the pile of scrap paper they had placed on the floor.
‘If we burn the council's building to the ground, they will definitely force us to merge with my brother’s pack,’ Finlay mindlinked me. I did my best not to laugh and slapped him on the shoulder. Jake gave a cheer as he created a spark that made the paper catch fire. Ramses hurried to hand him the cards and Jake lit it on fire, it looked like a small torch. He handed it tome. It smoked and it was hot. I raised it towards the detector. Nothing happened.
“Give it a moment,” Jake said. We all looked up at it. I could feel the fire creeping closer to my fingers.
“Make another card bundle,” I said. Ramses started to work. I would have to hold out until he handed me the next one. I felt my fingers get uncomfortably hot. Ramses raised a new bundle up to me and then there was a ringing sound and water started to fall down, drenching us all.
“Well, it worked. Now what?” I asked.
“Look,” Sam said. We looked out over the room. Faint lines of lights were seen. It wasn’t like clear ribbons like it was in the movies. But it at least gave us a hint of where the lasers were.
“Let’s do this,” I said, getting down from Finlay’s shoulders. I wanted to get out of this room. The water was cold and the longer we stayed, the colder our bodies would be and the harder it would be for us to move.
“Amie, you are the most agile. You should go first and try to scope out a path the rest of us can take,” Sam said.
“Sure. I’m guessing it would be best to try and find the best gaps and keep close to the floor?” I asked.
