My Karmic Debt System

Chapter 18: Trapped

I was trapped in a basement with evidence I couldn't leave behind and an elderly woman in danger upstairs.

My Enhanced Multitasking split my attention four ways: one track planning escape routes through the basement's narrow windows, one track listening to the conversation above, one track preparing for combat with nothing but a knife and desperation, one track managing the panic that kept trying to claw its way up my throat.

The voices upstairs were clear enough to parse through the floorboard