The wind howled like a beast through the Icelandic tundra.
Blinding white snow swirled around Grace as she stepped out of the unmarked black SUV, the cold biting through her gloves and boots like knives. The ground was a frozen wasteland, stretching out into a flat horizon, empty except for a single, metallic dome structure half-buried beneath the snow.
"This is it," Nathaniel said, stepping beside her. His breath clouded in front of him, and his jaw was set with grim resolve. “Ashford’s last secret.”
Grace stared at the dome. According to Malachai’s files, beneath this ice lay Facility X, Vincent Ashford’s most covert experiment, where children were genetically modified, trained, and programmed like machines.
“No turning back now,” she murmured.
From behind them, a second vehicle rol
