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Even under the starless black of the charred night sky, the constantly flashing images from the holographic displays on every blank surface of the city would have given them away—if there had been anyone there to see them. Whether it was the deadened hour between late night and early morning or the fact that they now stood so close to the Unclean headquarters facility, Lukas found himself grateful for their apparent solitude in this part of the city. And he couldn’t help but feel a little unsettled because of it. Still, he wasn’t about to turn down the opportunity to advance, no matter how skeptical he was of it. They’d gotten this far unmolested; now the worst of it lay just ahead of them.
Marya glanced up from the tiny, handheld screen clutched in her palm, met Lukas’s gaze, then no
