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THE DOOR OPENED further and Melati and Ari stepped into the place where few people had ever been: the inner sanctum of the hypertech den.
At this point, the fabled hideout was just another corridor, and a run-down one at that. The two hypertechs set off down this passage. The one in front was definitely a woman, judging by the way she walked. Melati resolved to call her Fatima until she either confirmed her identity or got so annoyed at being called the wrong name that she would give her real name.
The pair led her and Ari into a large room on the right hand side. It had probably been a storeroom of some kind, with metal rails across the ceiling that would have had hoists and pulleys for moving heavy things. It was now a busy technology hub, where at least twenty other hypertechs sat
