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27
IVY
The Supervisor slipped the vial in the machine and bent over me to administer it.
I quietened my mind and let my instinct—or that of the baby inside me—take over.
The chair shuddered.
The Supervisor paused and looked down at it. Then his attention shifted to my hands on the armrests.
“No…”
The chair spun and slammed into the Supervisor’s knees, knocking him onto his ass on the hard floor. The chair continued to spin and swept the guards’ legs out too.
They would be up again in an instant.
I got up and bolted to the observation window.
Kren was down there now. He’d just finished off a creature wreathed in fire. The flames winked out and the creature hit the floor. But there was another creature already running from another open gate.
“Look out!” I yelled, but of course, he couldn’t hear me.
I peered at the controls. There were so many switches and dials.
“Computer,” I said. “How do you deactivate all security systems?”
“You do not have the appropriate authority to deactivate the security systems.”
“I asked you how.”
“By speaking the command and pressing the ‘Deactivate’ button on the console. But you do not—”
“Yeah, yeah. I get it.”
“It’s no use,” the Supervisor said, getting to his feet and dusting himself off. “You can’t win.”
On the console, I spied a large red button with “Deactivate” written across it. Pressing it alone wouldn’t be enough.
I raised my hands as the Supervisor approached, blood-red murder etched into every wrinkle of his face.
“And what did you think you were going to do once you escaped the booth? There’s no way to save Kren.”
“Deactivate the security systems.”
The Supervisor snorted derisively.
“Deactivate the security systems,” he said sardonically.
“Request confirmed,” the Computer said. “Security systems deactivated.”
I sighed.
“Finally, a break,” I said.
The Supervisor’s eyes bulged.
I slammed my fist on the “Deactivate” button.
