Free The Time Stone by Jeffrey Estrella

God
and that the man maybe was an angelic heavenly messenger amongst us
come to help him but his scientific studies in college made him
think that maybe some more physical down to earth explanation
existed like some fluke science experiment gone awry, a form of
science unknown to him, or voodoo magic or something beyond his
comprehension entirely. He only knows for sure that he would have
been dead had he not received that help when he needed it whether
it was an accident or some kind of design by a higher grand person
or entity, so he was grateful and thanked God for the chance to
live on and continue to serve the public. Now he wondered if
somehow this past had returned to haunt him and whether the
mysterious vanishing man had somehow returned and the incident in
the stairwell was somehow connected. “Hmmm.”

CHAPTER 22
    The long crawl through the narrow
shaft was arduous for the duo trapped like rats in single file
struggling to make their way to freedom and making it outside was
like being relieved of a heavy burden.
    “ I can’t believe I got the
tail end of this deal”, said James.
    “ Hey, I tried to hold it
in.” Tina sheepishly replied and both smirked. “Where are we now?”
asked Tina. They were exiting the shaft and exposed to a wide field
having followed the chute to an exterior yard surrounding the
facility and fence work they observed surrounding the compound as
far as the eye could see with barbed wire wound around each top
with another set on top of that. The sound of barking dogs
permeated the air around them and the odor of burnt ash protruded
about resulting in a burned stench that escalated like the fires of
hell searing with the brightness of the guard towers spread up with
guards armed and ready like leviathans awaiting their prey, those
eager to defy them. “We may have a problem here, James,” Tina
said.
    James thought to himself that he would
not have been put by fate into this situation if it was completely
hopeless. “There is always a way,” he thought to himself and looked
about the yard his eyes scouring the vast expanse before him with
hawk like precision and something clicked inside and he could
accelerate that sight. His eyes began seeing things quicker and
then quicker searching frantically and then a red dot appeared
before him brightly and it began lighting his way quickly growing
and growing encompassing the whole field of his vision before him
and rushing forward, as if a self-facilitated visual Doppler
effect. His senses grew wider as they tunneled into a swirling
vortex of infrared light penetrating his eyes and suddenly it
stopped as he was face to face with a small doorway underneath one
of the towers with a padlock on it, a trap door leading directly
under the yard and outside via an underground passageway directly
to the open field behind the jail once used for shipping
receivables according to an old sign he envisioned in his mind’s
eye with all of the passage way. But it was apparently long since
abandoned as evidenced by the faded dirty roads and overgrown
grass. There the door was covered with dirt and rust decayed over
many years of neglect. The door was otherwise well hidden and
invisible to the naked eye but somehow James new enhanced senses
picked it up. The door was meters away from their location but
seemed to James like it was directly in front of him. He smiled as
he looked at his baffled companion and explained that there was a
way out. They agreed to embark on the long quest out. They
maneuvered their way slowly across the chain link fence then ducked
as they approached the visual light range of the object tower and
then quietly crawled near the fence what James described quietly to
Tina as a virtual blind spot to the guardsman in the tower. Then
they held their position until nightfall and James explained his
story to Tina and how he managed to figure out their final escape
but she couldn’t believe how his new abilities worked. Nonetheless,
she was