THE THREAT SURFACED in a series of old maps, written in a language no one living understood.
It was during my hunts in the sub-basement archives where I originally found those old maps. Ones which showed how there were cross-connected travel routes between various cities deep underground. N’Yack was connected to Cagga via the deep aquifers that had been drained almost dry. Different aquifers were used at different points, connected by deep tunnel bores.
At first, those maps didn’t make any sense. Just schematics and some alpha-numeric codings on the edges and throughout. I had a hard time deciphering these at first, but eventually learned their AI-developed geek-speak language and solved their puzzles.
But there was no way to access these tunnels without some sort of ID. A fake one, obv
