Book 5: Chapter 37: Schemes
Icarus
August 2321
Sentry System
You’d think the prospect of rotting in a holding cell would spur us to heights of creativity, but no. After several real-time hours of thinking, we still had nothing. I was sitting back, holding a coffee and staring into space, when Dae muttered, “You’d think the builders would have allowed for something like this.”
I sat up straight. “I bet they did!”
“Huh?”
“Like high-security areas back on Earth. If the fire alarms went off, everything unlocked so people could get out.”
Dae frowned. “Yeah, and wasn’t there a car that you could trick into unlocking by convincing it you were trying to get out?”
“Something like that,” I replied with a smile. “But the point is, there should be a procedure for handling nonroutine situations.”