Shortcut

Ella decided to go for it, after all YOLO was important right?

Ella sped towards the rail yards where supposedly a gate had no padlock, pushed through and made her way down into the tunnel carrying her bike over the rocks, once inside it was smooth concrete beside the track all the way along until the 3rd access door, she made it in good time and opened the door, making her way through a tight L shaped corridor and up through another unlocked door into an abandoned building.

The building was big and dark with paint peeling from the walls, it had been abandoned for years by the look of it, she rode for a minute or two through a long corridor into a large open room, an old dance hall, there was construction scaffolding around and what looked like recent work on renovations, she pedalled along some wooden foot boards over a damaged section of flooring showing the dirt below and the foundation pillars and got to yet another unlocked door.

Heading through she found herself outside in an alleyway she knew well, she grinned, she had gone from being 20 minutes late to 20 minutes early thanks to the shortcut. it was amazing.

Ella floored it into the depot just in time to beat out a fellow messenger who always boasted about being there before anyone else.

They both bantered for a bit chatting about shortcuts as they waited for the boss to arrive.