Chapter 5
Chapter 5
The protagonist reaches the top of the stairs and finds the field officer from Erzvilkas in the safe house. He reveals he has been guarding the files since the audit ended, and that the kanjbsls are closing in. They must leave immediately, but he gives the protagonist a final piece of evidence: a recorded phone call implicating a high-level official. The chapter ends with the sound of vehicles approaching the house.
The door was old, painted a pale blue that had faded to grey. The light under it was steady, not flickering like a candle. A bulb, then. Someone had brought a lamp or a flashlight. I pressed my ear to the wood and listened. Nothing but the sound of my own breathing.
I turned the handle slowly, silently, and pushed the door open. The room was small, perhaps a bedroom once. A single camping lantern sat on the floor in the corner, casting a yellow glow across the walls. And there, crouched beside an open trunk, was a man.
He was older than me, maybe sixty, with grey stubble and tired eyes. He wore a heavy coat despite the warmth of the room, and his hands were dirty, the nails cracked. He looked up when the door opened, and for a moment we both froze.
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