MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Forty two— What Comes After
She read the file three times.
Each time it said the same thing.
Each time it meant something bigger than the time before.
Caius read it over her shoulder.
Zane read it after him.
Nobody spoke for a long moment.
Then Caius said:
"This cannot be right."
"It is documented," Mara said.
"By who."
"Someone who was there," she said. "Four hundred years ago. The last fully activated Triad Anchor." She paused. "The only one who survived long enough to write it down."
Zane looked at the screen.
"The reset is just the first phase," he said quietly.
"Yes," Mara said.
"And the second phase."
She looked at the file.
At the words she had read three times.
At the thing that nobody had survived long enough to show anyone.
"The
