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And she just handed us the way in.

Aaron

My comm crackles,then settles into Ronan’s voice—low, focused, certain.

“Turn left. Thirty meters. Then stop.”

I don’t ask how.

I don’t hesitate.

I move.

Left.

Thirty meters.

Every step measured, controlled, silent.

The corridor narrows, walls closing in on either side, the hum of power growing stronger the deeper I go.

Then—

“Stop.”

I stop.

In front of a blank wall.

No markings.

No door.

Nothing.

Ronan exhales slowly in my ear.

“That’s her room.”

For a second—

Just one—

Everything stills.

The noise.

The mission.

The building.

All of it.

I close my eyes.

See her.

At the table.