I must have traveled down at least three or four floors, given the length of the trip in the elevator. I was a little surprised that there were that many sublevels in the small building, but being so far underground also meant that the ground floor might be misrepresentative of the total size of the building. Maybe all of the buildings in the entire facility were connected underground, and the ground level areas were strictly administrative and storage areas.

It didn't matter. I intended to make a quick scan over wherever the elevator ended up stopping at, checking some things out, maybe seeing if anyone was even there (although all signs had pointed to that not being the case, so far as I'd seen). After that, I planned on returning back upstairs and letting Janine and Hunter know whatever I'd discovered, and seeing what they thought about doing from there. You get all kinds of ideas in your head, anyway, when you don't know what's about to happen.

I imagined all of that would go smoothly, and the worst case scenario that I came up with involved an aggressive security guard or two escorting us off of the property with a stern warning to never return. I also considered the possibility that Janine and Hunter would agree to return downstairs with me after I informed them of the vast wealth of information that I'd discovered on whatever sublevel of the small building that I ended up on. Of course, I thought of all of that on the ride down, before the doors opened.

But then the elevator stopped. I pushed all of my ideas to the side.

The doors opened.