The void left by severed comms link was a physical jolt. One heartbeat, two heartbeats, and the command center was totally frozen, suspended in a vacuum of shock. Everything else that moved was the frantic, wordless waltz of red alert glyphs zipping about the main holographic screen, casting implacable bloody shadows across stunned faces of the pack.
Dr. Kael Fenris filled the silence. "Lyra! Track that jamming signal. I want its location, its type, and its extent five minutes ago." He growled in a deep voice, all vestiges of the urbane scientist gone, replaced by the intensity edge of an Alpha under pressure.
Lyra's fingers flew already on her console. "It's a multi-spectrum, military-grade dampening field. The source is contained to the clinic, but the encryption pattern. Kael, it's vi
