XXI
The alarms grated against Miri’s ears. She had never heard anything louder in her life. They swelled and blared and screamed, and she wondered if they would give her temporary hearing loss.
Earl pushed open the brushed metal doors into the factory production floor, and a blast of hot air hit them as they ran inside.
Dark’s cage was busted open. The metal bars twisted upon themselves as if they had suffered an explosion. Glass was scattered all over the floor.
Their eyes went up to the glass skylight, which was broken and let in soft moonbeams that glinted off the shards of broken glass.
“We’ve got to get the alarms off,” Lucan said. He stopped at an electrical box and entered a passcode. Then the alarms quickly stopped and the area grew silent.
Even though the alarms had stopped,
