The leader looked over at them, his hand around Eliza’s neck. “Hm,” he said before extending the hand over the side of the train. “I appreciate what you must have gone through, son.” He let go and Eliza flew back, lost to the wind. Jude shuddered, closing his eyes for a moment, but the eyes of the Enforcer never left Vaughn until he reached into his pockets. “We can keep these two for the public execution. Lock them up, men.” The final enforcer lowered his weapon to grab handcuffs from their belts.
Two of the officers fell, but the one by the door fell back out of the train, the scene whisking away before the impact.
She was hanging onto the outside of the car door, her arm hooked around the handle and her head dropped as she tried to catch her breath. The wind was tearing at her, pulling her back, and she clung to the door, hanging on for dear life.
She seemed to hesitate to let him pull her in, but she fell on her hands and knees, gasping for breath as the landscape moved past them. It took her a moment to look up at him, and when she spoke, she sounded like she was speaking through an injured throat. "...you killed them?"
She watched him as he pushed the bodies out the door, still trying to catch her breath. Jude's eyes were darting back and forth between the two of them, his brows furrowed in concern. "Eliza..." he said quietly, his voice stern. "He could have turned us in there. He could have." She glanced over at him, pursing her lips slightly before pulling herself to her feet. "We need to get off at the next stop," she said hoarsely. "They know we're in here."
She frowned, rubbing her throat gently. "They'll be waiting for us at the next station," she croaked. "We might need to jump."
"I don't know," she said, standing up and looking outside. "It will begin to slow down as it approached the station, though. Maybe we can jump them."
She looked outside for a moment, her brows furrowed. The wind ruffled her hair and she looked up at the sky, her eyes softening. "The stars," she said quietly. "I wasn't able to see them last night when we were by the fire. I forgot they existed."
She studied them for a moment, her eyes wide with wonder. It would be easy, for just a moment, to see what she would have been like without the Colony's influence. She watched almost hopefully, her gaze thoughtful. It quickly hardened however, and she looked down at the ground, trying to calculate how fast they were going. "Gather everything up," she instructed. "We need to be ready to leave."
