"Michael Sweeney - Moving Day" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sweeney Michael)

"Yes, I'm sorry about that. It seems the air reclamation units are
clogging from the dust of drilling. If you want to wear a mask, I can get
you one." He said.
"Yes, please, that would be fine. My lungs have a hard enough time as
it is." The minister choked out.
The Doctor took the Minister by the arm and led him to a reception
desk. He asked the man behind the desk for a visitors mask. The man pulled
a small blue breathing filter from under the desk. Kile pulled the elastic
over his head and the mask fit snugly. Immediately he felt better.
The Doctor thanked the man behind the desk and ordered the doors be
opened. Kile looked over to the large metal doors to the left of the desk.
They did not move. Behind and to the right of the desk the wall slide away
revealing a passageway. Kile was slightly startled. The Doctor walked
toward the opening. Kile followed.
As the two men entered the hall, the door slide closed behind them.
"What's the deal with the fake doors?" Kile said through the mask. The
Doctor slowed slightly.
"Those lead to a different section." The Doctor answered. Kile
frowned, he suspected something else, but remained silent.
"How has the construction come along, as planned?" he asked instead.
"Oh, quite. Even better. We are a week and a half ahead of schedule!"
the Doctor enthused. Kile was struggling to keep up with the Doctors long
strides. He would soon be out of breath. Abruptly The Doctor turned and
put his hand on the wall. A red panel lit up and outlined his hand. The
panel shifted to green and the wall slide aside. Kile was surprised again.
He would have kept going on and on. He would have to insure he did not lose
his guide.
"Don't worry, Minister. If you get lost we have cameras that will find
you." the Doctor commented as he brushed into the new room. The Minister
shivered as he look around for the watching eyes. Of course he could not see
them, but he could feel them. "Well, what do you think?"
The Doctor was standing before a large thing. Kile slowly looked up
and his jaw dropped open.
The proton drive projected two hundred feet into the mountain. There
was another three hundred feet below him.
It was a mass of piping of various sizes and shaped. Occasionally a tank of
some kind projected out. It looked like a plumbers nightmare.
Kile walked slowly over to the edge and peered into the
lighted abyss. It looked quite deep.
"Its huge!"
The Doctor smiled. The tall proton drive's piping glittered and
gleamed in it grandeur.
"Yes, I know. And this is what the Council Terraforming Committee has
been 'dumping' money into."
The Minister was still speechless.
"Come, lets go to my office. I have a nice view. And more importantly,
comfortable chairs."