The entire underground chamber trembled.
Dust drifted down from the ceiling in thin gray clouds as the
structure above groaned under the pressure of something
massive moving through the sky.
Jessica braced herself against the metal table beside the pedestal.
The glowing device in her hand pulsed violently now, the symbols
across its surface blazing bright blue like veins of light beneath
glass.
Across the room, the monitors flickered wildly between camera
feeds, data streams, and thermal images from satellites.
Every system connected to the Node network had locked onto the
same thing.
The object.
Jessica looked up at the nearest screen.
The view had changed from orbital tracking to a city surveillance
feed. Cameras across the downtown district had automatically
shifted u
