Act I — Chapter 9
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In the periphery of her vision, something moved. Tina swore she saw a shadow glide across the adjoining hallway. If she hadn’t looked down from the camera at that exact moment, she would have missed it entirely. Light spilled out from the far end of the dim corridor. It had been completely dark just a minute before.
She edged uncertainly toward the illumination. On rounding a bend, she saw that the light shone from the cold-storage room, where Tungsten kept samples of E. coli bacteria in suspended animation. The hum of whirring HVAC machinery and the sound of clinking glassware grew as she approached.
She peeked inside. The door to the deep-freeze unit hung open. Amidst the cold fog pouring out onto the floor, Tina could see a pair of black sneakers under the door,
