Funny Shades of Grey--chapter seven
Chapter Seven The first thing I notice is the smell: broccoli. I never should have eaten at the House of Broccoli for lunch before our first date. Christian leads me through a corridor away from the Bat-Cave. At the end of it is a door. He opens it. I try to peek through, shivering in antici... PAYshun . Hmm... another door. Beyond that one is an aperture. After the aperture, an egress. Once through the egress, we come upon--not a door--but a gate. He opens the gate, and, once through it, he bends down and opens a hatch on the floor, like the one in the movie Gravity , but with oxygen. Through the hatchway, I see an opening. But an opening to what? I have no idea, but I must find out. "Christian! Where are you taking me?" I ask, putting away my thesaurus. "Did you have broccoli for lunch?" I nod. "Jeez," he says, holds his nose, and enters the portal. I follow him into a large...