Chapter 46: The Gatekeeper and the Ghost

Chapter 46: Chapter 46: The Gatekeeper and the Ghost

The descent into Lab V was quieter without its architect.

Arik stood alone in the glass elevator as it shuddered down into the buried levels of Alexandria. The conditional access badge Liam had issued him glowed a faint white against the dark, steady and unwillingly permissive in his hand. Beyond the transparent walls, the shaft sank through reinforced stone, old conduits, and the mechanical bones of a city that had long ago learned to hide its most important organs underground.

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