XXXV“…and this is the master time signal generator. It all depends on this, understand? Everything comes down to this. The other generators about Engn get their time from here so everything is in sync.”
“I understand,” said Connor.
Finn's chest roared with a vast pain. Some terrible injury. How had he survived? The floor was hard beneath his back. He didn't understand why he wasn't dead.
Somewhere nearby he heard the familiar jangling of the old man's keys.
“And this is the key to activate the control panel. Small and unimportant, isn't it? No one would ever imagine it governs the whole machine. You'll need the code as well. Insert the key and I'll type it in. You must watch and remember it. Never write it down, hear me? Never.”
Finn didn't dare move. Didn't want to explore his wound,
