The Jade Figurine
“It bounced and clattered into the far wall. Light flamed briefly from across the office, like a match being struck. Dinessen shouted something, but the words were lost in the hollow roar of the Lüger. A bullet ricocheted off the concrete flooring somewhere on my right as I moved in a scuttling crawl toward the door behind the desk, trying to get my feet under me.
Two more muzzle flashes cut momentary holes in the darkness. I staggered upright, heard one of the pellets slap into the wall high ab...ove my head. The other cut into the doorjamb, spraying splinters into my face, and the room was filled with the stench of burnt gunpowder and the dying echoes of the shots when I hit the door with my shoulder, sent it banging off the wooden wall in the warehouse beyond.
Dinessen fired a fourth time. Pain seared through my trailing right arm, numbing it, and then I was through into the warehouse in a jerky, spindle-legged run. Shadowed mounds and masses of goods filled the high-ceilinged enclosure, stacked on pallets or on suspended platforms or on the concrete floor itself.MoreLess
Two more muzzle flashes cut momentary holes in the darkness. I staggered upright, heard one of the pellets slap into the wall high ab...ove my head. The other cut into the doorjamb, spraying splinters into my face, and the room was filled with the stench of burnt gunpowder and the dying echoes of the shots when I hit the door with my shoulder, sent it banging off the wooden wall in the warehouse beyond.
Dinessen fired a fourth time. Pain seared through my trailing right arm, numbing it, and then I was through into the warehouse in a jerky, spindle-legged run. Shadowed mounds and masses of goods filled the high-ceilinged enclosure, stacked on pallets or on suspended platforms or on the concrete floor itself.MoreLess
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