6 Meimi
The next morning, I wake up in a crappy little cot. No more fancy-pants hospital. Now I’m locked up in a concrete block of a room. Turning on my side, I find that messages have been scratched into the wall nearest me.
ECHO Academy Underground
Tawana Rines, Chemist, 2219
Ian Rhodes, Drift Scientist, 2226
Jane Fisher, Engineer, 2232
I run my fingers across the letters cut into the concrete. Does this mean what I think it means?
This is the ECHO Academy Underground?
My skin prickles with excitement. The Underground is the most prized assignment for any researcher. The name pretty much gives away the location: a complex of rooms about ninety stories underneath the ECHO campus. But the stuff it contains is amazing. Supposedly, the greatest laboratory in existence can be found do
