A New Life?
What's the point if the old one haunts you forever?
The red status light switched over to green. |
"We don’t have all
day," I said, changing the subject. "So you might want to hurry up and get to work on that." I pointed to the access gate, which featured a keypad on the lock. "Is that your kind of thing,
there? Because I don't think swiping these access cards will get
us through those gates." To answer, he stepped over to the keypad, and after examining it for a moment with both of his hands and a furrowed brow, he typed a combination into the keys. The red status light switched over to green, and I heard the lock click open. "That a good enough guess for you?" he asked. "You’d make any double agent memo proud," I said. I pushed open the gate, and it made a loud creaking sound that echoed out across the laboratory yards. "Hopefully they don't have security dogs around here," I said, looking around. "And that the guards are all asleep, or at least as friendly as Sergei," Janine added. |
A loud creaking sound that echoed out across the laboratory yards... |