15 - Laser Room
You hit the door with your shoulder, fall through it and slam it behind you with seconds to spare. The raptors slam into it from the other side, again and again, screeching, and the steel booms but holds. You slide down to the floor with your back against it and stay there until your heart stops trying to leave your chest. You are not going back out there. Not ever.
You turn around. You are in a huge white room, bright as an operating theatre, so clean it hums. There is nothing in it at all except the thing in the middle. It is a ship. Sleek, silver, resting on three legs, with a hatch standing open and warm light spilling out of it. It looks like it is waiting for you.
You take one step towards it and the alarms go off. Thin red lines flick on across the whole room, hundreds of them, criss-crossing at every height from ankle to ceiling. You do not know how you know but you know that touching one of them would be the last thing you ever do. The ship is the only way forward. Step over the low ones. Lean sideways to slip through the diagonals. Stretch out where they leave a gap and do not touch a single line.
Cross the room without touching a laser. Step wide over the low ones, lean sideways to slip past the diagonal ones and stretch out to the side where they leave a gap.
How to clear this day
Pick your level - Level I 3 sets - Level II 5 sets - Level III 7 sets
One set is 20 step half jacks, 10 side jacks and 10 step Ts repeated twice over without stopping.
Rest up to 2 minutes between sets.
Where to next: Mark Day 15 done in the index below and come back tomorrow for Day 16. Halfway there.
