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THERE WAS NO HESITATION in the woman’s voice, no room for negotiation, and Morgan knew that their only choice was to go down to the Great Court. She couldn’t contact ARKANE – even if she did, a team of agents wouldn’t make it here in time to save anyone. She couldn’t be sure that the iron staff would even do anything, and besides, once the Valkyrie had it, there was no way for the Neo-Vikings to get out of the museum.
She wished she could go back to this morning, when she had left the ARKANE base under Trafalgar Square ready for a purely civilian research trip. She would have put better procedures in place, brought some kind of weapon with her, and she definitely would have brought backup. Her partner Jake was out on the firing range in the woods of Kent, finally recovered from his inj
