CHAPTER 24: THE ASCENT
POV: SERGEANT BRAVO ㅤ Climbing ninety-nine floors isn't a workout; it’s an execution. ㅤ The service shaft was a vertical coffin of rusted metal and humming cables. Every ten floors, we had to pause for Jace to catch his breath, his face slick with sweat under the red emergency lights of the tower. The Legacy Drive in his pack was vibrating so hard I could hear the metal buckles rattling. ㅤ "How’s... the signal?" Jace wheezed, leaning his forehead against the cold iron of the ladder. ㅤ [ Jace: The Board is... they’re trying to flood the shaft with a sleep-frequency. I’m running a counter-loop, but it’s draining my deck’s battery. ] ㅤ "Keep it together, kid," I said, looking down. The bottom of the shaft was lost in a thick, swirling fog of black ink. The White-Suits weren't follow
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