A Race Against the Darkness/5

Interlude: The Heart Of Hell
Intersection of West Shawnee Boulevard and 24th Street Muskogee Starport, Free State Of Oklahoma, Republic Of Earth March 23, 2276, 0808.21 MCT

The Deirdre McCallum State Government Complex sat majestically atop Honor Heights,in the center of what had been the worst part of the former Muskogee Metropolitan Prison Zone, before John LaRue and his company of what had been Oklahoma National Guardsmen had marched headlong into the heart of Hell two hundred years ago.

The part in which the Terran President now stood hadn't been much better...the concrete, rebar and concertrina wire wall stil stood beside her, cutting off the view of passerby on what had been U.S. Highway 62 from the actual prison zone, signs on the outside still warning of death or worse for unauthroized personnel, the guard post and gate at the intersection of West Shawnee and 24th Street still standing as well, albeit somewhat worse for wear owing to the passage of time.