Soren glanced at the twins, who wore identical looks of boredom, but he saw the small twitch in Lira's jaw. He wondered if she was thinking about the blue book, or just counting the odds on which of them would slip up first.
The Inspector dismissed the cohort, her boots tapping a perfect rhythm as she left. Soren followed the line down the corridor, but detoured at the first branching, heading for the admin block. If there was a time to vanish, it was now, everyone would be busy logging the inspection, and the security office would be on double shift until sundown.
He cut through the back stairs, up two flights, then down the catwalk that led to the east annex. It was a risk, but he needed to see the glass wall for himself, to check if the crack from last night was still there or if someone had already patched it over with a new layer of containment runes.
