Chapter Twenty-Eight
Nexus
Olesya let go of the handrail and slid down the broken catwalk to land on the platform below. Her coat was torn where a piece of jagged metal had struck her liquid body armor. It hurt when she straightened up, but she breathed through it and checked under her coat for blood. Nothing.
She’d fallen to a lower level inside the nexus, where the catwalks had mostly held up. It wasn’t even the bottom of the chamber; she could see a dizzying drop below, through cracks in the steel platform around her. Above, through the shattered walkways, she could see a sliver of sky where part of the Spear’s exterior had caved in.
No sound came from her earpiece. She checked her phone. The screen was cracked, but it seemed to still be working. Not that it mattered, she was stuck
