The sound of our footsteps echoed through the desolate corridors as we sprinted toward the heart of the facility. My lungs burned, my muscles screamed, but I didn’t stop. Couldn’t stop. Not when we were this close.
Kane ran beside me, keeping pace despite the slight limp she had tried to hide. Blood trickled down her arm from a graze she’d picked up during the fight with the constructs, but she hadn’t said a word about it. That was Kane—always pushing through the pain, never giving in.
We reached the central data hub, an enormous chamber lined with towering servers pulsing with a soft blue light. In the center stood a single, reinforced terminal—the core of the entire system.
Kane sucked in a breath. “This is it.”
I scanned the room, my heartbeat still erratic from the fight. “No guard
