I watched through the external security camera.
Lia swung badly, but the rebar still landed on Derrick's knee. Bone cracked, and he dropped screaming.
He caught her by the hair and drove her face into the snow.
They clawed and bit at each other. He called her a backstabbing leech. She called him a worthless, thieving coward. Blood turned the snow around them pink.
A proximity alert beeped on my control panel. Someone had reached the rear maintenance hatch.
I switched camera feeds.
Caroline leaned against the frozen rock outside. Her expensive arctic gear was torn, and purple bruises covered one side of her face. She still looked straight into the camera.
She didn't bang on the door. A private message appeared.
"Yara. I got 'Steel Skin' from someone who ambushed me. I'm hurt, but I
