Chapter 20
They ran into a strange room where screens lined the walls, displaying real-time maps of every major city on Earth. Data gathered in cool blue lines in the wall that intersected the screens at perpendicular angles. On the far wall, several huge ceiling-to-floor windows looked out at the Arctic sea floor, a barren and black landscape full of whirling shadows, illuminated here and there by the lights of Terminus.
Jeanette stood in the center of the room with her arms outstretched. She clutched a digital tablet in her bionic arm. It looked like a control app, with several large virtual buttons and knobs scattered across the screen.
“You’re just in time.”
“This is over,” X said. “You’re under arrest.”
“Finally,” Jeanette said. “You’re going to do what you should have done all a
