Yoo sat on the bed and immediately began thinking.
Thirty-six hours until the rift opens.
Which is roughly when Kwan's ritual happens.
He's deliberately removing me from the whole picture.
But he's also giving me a potential lead on Dad.
And a trial world might be the only place I can grow strong enough to actually challenge what's coming.
His communicator buzzed—the one Captain Lee had given him, which shouldn't work in a secured facility unless someone wanted it to.
Message: We know where you are. Assault on facility planned for dawn tomorrow. Can you delay your departure?
Yoo stared at the message.
Lee's resistance is coming here.
Tomorrow morning.
Right when I'm supposed to leave for the rift.
He replied: Can't delay. Crucible is sending me through dimensional rift to trial world. Need to go—might find intel on father's location.
The response came quickly: Understood. We'll focus on other objectives. Survive the trial world. We'll handle things here.
